# That's Not My Name: Analytical Essay Prompts

These twelve prompts are designed to move beyond summary and into sustained analysis of That's Not My Name. Each prompt targets a specific element of craft—character, causality, relationship, contrast, theme, symbol, structure, foreshadowing, or the ending—and offers a defensible thesis direction plus concrete evidence leads from the novel. Use the chapter references to anchor your argument in the text, and feel free to combine prompts if your essay needs a broader scope. All claims below are traceable to the supplied outline and excerpted evidence; where the text is ambiguous, the prompt notes that ambiguity rather than inventing a reading.