An update of what is happening in my independant reading book called Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen is Auden was walking in the kitchen to get her coffee for the morning when she hears Heidi keep saying the name "Caroline West". As Auden confronts her asking," I thought her name was Thisbee?", Heidi freaks out. Here is a passage of the conflict that will soon arise.
"I thought her name was Thisbee,' I said. Heidi jumped, startled, then looked up at me. 'Auden,' she stammered.' I. . . I didn't hear you come in.' I looked at her, then at the baby, then at her again.' I was actually just passing throough,' I told her, and turned to go. I thought I was afe, but then, just as i reached the stiars, she spoke. 'I dont like the name!' When I turned back, she looked up at the ceiling, her face flushed, like someone else had said this. Then she sighed, sitting back on her heels. 'I don't,' she said slowly, more quietly. 'I wanted to name her Isabel. It's the name of one of my best friends here in Colby, and I'd always loved it. . . . 'So,' I said to Heidi, walking back over to her, ' why didn't you?' She but her lip, smoothing her hand over the baby's back. 'You're father wanted to have a literary name,' she said. 'He said Isabel was too pedestrian, common, that with it, she'd never have a chance at greatness.'
This passage from the book clearly shows that Heidi isn't really getting to have her opinion be heard by Auden's dad, and she has always been frustrated with that but she has always kept it in. Now, she is finally realizing that her opinion should be heard, that she doesn't just have to go along with what Auden's father states. So she starts calling their baby 'Caroline West' instead of 'Thisbee'. I put in italics the important part that Heidi says that shows that only Auden's fathers opinion is heard. But Auden's father's point about having a literary name isn't really a good one in my opinion. You don't have to have a fancy name to "achieve greatness". You have to work for that.
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