I have had a few different people ask where or how we came up with the 2 girl & 2 boy names. I know I gave a slight explanation for most of them but I decided to recap all of the names on our list.
Jackson Henry: The middle name is after the Man's father, he is already an amazing father & grandfather and I know the Man would love to have a son like his dad. Now the name Jackson is a little more confusing so bare with me. It is after my Grandpa Jake
I know what your thinking, you just said his name is Jake. Well his real name was John but we always called him Jake. Now my grandpa's brothers & sisters apparently always called him Jack
who knew Jake & Jack were short for John! Since I already have a cousin Jacob and I feel like every boy that is named John is really naughty, the Man and I decided that we really like the name Jack. Jack then turned into Jackson and I am sure we will call him Jack for short if our baby gets the name Jackson Henry.
Josiah David: This name is a little easier to explain. The baby would be completely named after the Man. I would love for our baby to have his name. I do struggle with what we would call the baby then because I feel it could be slightly confusing having two Josiahs. And I have a fear that people would call our son Jo for short and that would drive me crazy...I do not like the name Jo at all and would NEVER want people to call our baby Jo
ok that last part might have been a little over the deep end but deal with it
Harper Marjorie: Again another easy name to explain. There is no meaning or reason behind the name Harper besides the fact that the Man and I both really love the name. Now the middle name Marjorie is after both of my grandma's. They are both kind, amazing, strong women and I would love to have a daughter take away qualities from both of these women.
Scout Marjorie: I already explained the middle name under Harper so I won't repeat myself again. This is the name that people have the most questions about. I have loved the name Scout since I was in high school and read the book To Kill A Mockingbird. Scout is the little girl in the book and I always thought to myself that I would want a daughter to be just like her. So since it has been a couple years since I have read the book
I plan on rereading it if we are having a girl I will just put the
cliff notes on here about her character sorry its so long!
Scout is a very unusual little girl, both in her own qualities and in her social position. She is unusually intelligent (she learns to read before beginning school), unusually confident (she fights boys without fear), unusually thoughtful (she worries about the essential goodness and evil of mankind), and unusually good (she always acts with the best intentions). In terms of her social identity, she is unusual for being a tomboy in the prim and proper Southern world of Maycomb.
One quickly realizes when reading To Kill a Mockingbird that Scout is who she is because of the way Atticus has raised her. He has nurtured her mind, conscience, and individuality without bogging her down in fussy social hypocrisies and notions of propriety. While most girls in Scout’s position would be wearing dresses and learning manners, Scout, thanks to Atticus’s hands-off parenting style, wears overalls and learns to climb trees with Jem and Dill. She does not always grasp social niceties (she tells her teacher that one of her fellow students is too poor to pay her back for lunch), and human behavior often baffles her (as when one of her teachers criticizes Hitler’s prejudice against Jews while indulging in her own prejudice against blacks), but Atticus’s protection of Scout from hypocrisy and social pressure has rendered her open, forthright, and well meaning.
At the beginning of the novel, Scout is an innocent, good-hearted five-year-old child who has no experience with the evils of the world. As the novel progresses, Scout has her first contact with evil in the form of racial prejudice, and the basic development of her character is governed by the question of whether she will emerge from that contact with her conscience and optimism intact or whether she will be bruised, hurt, or destroyed like Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. Thanks to Atticus’s wisdom, Scout learns that though humanity has a great capacity for evil, it also has a great capacity for good, and that the evil can often be mitigated if one approaches others with an outlook of sympathy and understanding. Scout’s development into a person capable of assuming that outlook marks the culmination of the novel and indicates that, whatever evil she encounters, she will retain her conscience without becoming cynical or jaded. Though she is still a child at the end of the book, Scout’s perspective on life develops from that of an innocent child into that of a near grown-up.
