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Hello my fellow blog readers!! Redeeming Love has been such a good book so far and I am so glad @livslitblog recommended it and is reading it with me! As I have been reading so far, the main character, a girl, has been given about five different names in a span of about 20 years: Sarah, Angel, Mara, Tirzah, and Amanda. In general, a name is what helps identify a person; so how on earth can this one girl have so many “identities”? Could these names be considered as titles of her? What is the meaning behind all of these names? To me, I feel like that each name is symbolizing or representing her at a moment in her life. Every name change is of her becoming a new person. In the beginning, as a little girl, her name was Sarah. She was pure and innocent, but yet full of confusion. She felt abandoned by her father and a burden to her mother. Next, her name changed to Angel because of how angelic she looked. “Eyes blue as violets and hair like an angel” (Prologue. 25).   She was a ...