[ SECRET POST #2960 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2960 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Better early than late!

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Because it's such a weird thing to be annoyed and embarrassed by, but the way it's written makes it look like the reader is supposed to sympathize with Tibby, as if the author thinks it's normal that a kid would be embarrassed by their former-feminist mother's stupid naming conventions. I literally don't understand what's so embarrassing about a hyphen (and she's so embarrassed that she lies and says Tomko is her middle name, and when the confused teacher reads her real middle name from the roll, she tries to claim it's a typo. Talk about jumping through hoops over nothing.)

[(Anonymous)]

So to clarify, it's not that she hates the name itself, because otherwise she wouldn't have pretended it was her middle name to cover up that it was part of her last name. No, it's the fact that her name is hyphenated that she hates.

[(Anonymous)]

And that it makes her different from her siblings. She often feels like she's not part of their perfect little family; that she's baggage that they have to deal with from their younger days. And she's angry and hurt and a teenager that doesn't think things politically yet.

[(Anonymous)]

That's what I would have assumed was implicit there--although someone told me I'm untrusting and unfair because I like unreliable narrators, so idk.

[ibbity]

Tibby as a character has a crapload of weird hangups though and has a habit of jumping through convoluted hoops to deal with them

[(Anonymous)]

Having grown up in the era when all this was kicking off, that wasn't an atypical attitude. Being 'normal' ie having a name that didn't mark one as something different was preferable to a name that meant getting asked s bunch of embarrassing questions about your family.

[(Anonymous)]

But sympathizing with a character doesn't mean thinking their view is right. I've read books where there are chapters from the villains' POV, and it's in their head, and explaining their logic. And you find yourself sympathizing. But that doesn't mean you're supposed to think what they're doing is okay. It just means the author is good at showing a character's mind. And sometimes not everything a character thinks it's rational or good.

[hiyami]

... but kids and teenagers are usually annoyed and embarrassed by things that look minor to grown-ups, especially if they make them different from the other kids.

And if the book was set any time before the year 2000 and/or in a place where hyphenated names are rare, then it's not surprising at all that a kid would feel embarrassed by it. Not saying that all kids would be bothered, but it's really not surprising.
Heck, Harry Potter spent half a novel brooding over he wasn't included in the "fun" of the Order of the Phoenix during the holidays. That's pretty classical teen behavior.

The rest of the book may bring more context to the secret, I don't know anything about it.