In the memoir by any other name by santha rama rau the author lives kind of a dual perspective when i am saying this what i mean is the two kind of "ideas" 1. Regaedless of name a person mantains who they esential named 2. One concrate separated identity loss tittle and personality.
In my personal opinion whati can see is that premila cynthia's sister changes her personality in her knew school because she was trying to fit into the comunity in wich they are that is this" british - indian" mixture wich is created in the Anglo indian school.
We can noticed this because she wanted to take sandwiches as every body made and wanted to look like them. We can also noticed tihs because when premila stops being pamela after they live school she goes back into her normal personality.This show us the point or idea that means that when you are renamed you change there personality creating one kind of dual personality wich kind of changes according to one name you are called, the comunity in wich you are and depending in where are you trying to fit in.
In the other hand the author give us some quotes in wich the meaning of it is that no matter the circumstances in wich you are You are your identity or personality would not change, no matter wich comunnity or wich name you are or is being used.
In this the quote of" you can bury a dog's tail for seven years and it still comes out curly " she is trying to say here that no matter if she was cynthia or santha she would not have this kind of dual personality..
I think that when you are renamed you become a different person that who you are in your original name. The author tries to also show that not necesarlly you change but i stay with the idea that it actually does affe t you and you develope a dual personality that you go switching at the time you are in different communities were you are trying to fit in
So my "final answer" would be that if your name is changed also your identity and personality does.
Jaime Cabal
