Whether intentional or not, Yaa Gyasi seems to use names as a way of labeling characters with personality identification. Altogether, the meaning behind the name Richard in this novel so far seems to entail “bad” and/or unacceptability. In good fun, Cudjo frivolously named his snail Richard simply because “it’s a British name and he was bad like the British are bad” (Gyasi 57). At the conclusion of the race, Quay’s snail won easily while Cudjo’s snail lost terribly. In the Quay chapter, the name Richard comes up when young Quay and his friend Cudjo decide to race some snails for fun. However, the mention of James’ middle name, “Richard”, does have profound significance in regard to who he becomes later in his chapter. Other than depicting Nana Yaa’s anger and anguish, the simple dialogue structure and overall word choice used above does not really entail much connotation. In all, Nana Yaa hated the notion of having a son with an all-White name almost as much as she hated the forced marriage she had with Quay. The furious tone present in Nana Yaa’s voice above resulted from an argument brought up between her and her husband Quay. “James Richard Collins! What kind of Akan are you that you give your son three white names?” (Gyasi 90)
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On both sides of the Atlantic, there have been new illustrated editions of the Gormenghast novels and a new epilogue, Titus Awakes, has surfaced, written by Peake’s widow, Maeve Gilmore. Just over a decade later, the centenary of Peake’s birth presents us with the occasion to appreciate his abundant gifts as an illustrator (of, among other thing, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland), novelist, poet, and writer of literary nonsense. But my curiosity was sufficiently stirred to seek out the trilogy. As it turned out, the BBC only adapted the first two Gormenghast novels, and then only cartoonishly. So the BBC’s television dramatization of what they promised would be a darker alternative to Tolkien had its appeal. At the time, I was stuck in the purgatorial antechamber between adolescence and maturity, reluctant to abandon certain habits of mind but keen to develop the imaginative sophistication that I thought might come in handy in college. 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