u/Persephone_888

I get a lot of people after divorcing, will keep their married name. However, what I find weird is situations like Eve and Ivy. Eve has the surname Unwin-Panesar. She's got the name of the man who tried to kill her...

Ivy is named Knight-Mitchell. Why??? George even said in the NICU, he didn't want Mitchell and I don't blame him! Who wants their kid to have another man's name? If I divorce my husband and have another child with someone else, I sure as hell wouldn't be using his name.

Also, the whole thing with George's exes being there at the naming ceremony was so strange.

Edit: Literally first sentence I said I understand someone not changing THEIR OWN NAME. Yet people are commenting about how it'll be weird to answer to something else after years of having their married name. I'm talking about a NEW SPOUSE talking on YOUR EX HUSBAND'S name or your CHILD WITH A DIFFERENT PERSON.

So going through Left Behind again and I find it odd Marlene put Ellie into the hands of the military? I don't expect her to take care of Ellie herself of course, her role as leader of the fireflies is way too dangerous. However, I would think she would've put Ellie with a firefly group, like the Salt Lake City outpost? They had other kids there, Abby and her friends are around Ellie's age and they were teenagers during part 1. Even if the SLC group hadn't formed yet by the time of Ellie's birth, surely there must have been some Fireflies with families and children? I really doubt they were all just people with no familial ties beyond their group.

What makes it worse is that the school is training Ellie to kill Fireflies. Imagine if Ellie just continued in the school and became a soldier, would she end up possibly killing some of Marlene's people or being killed by them? It doesn't make sense to me. There's clearly a lot of distrust in the military (understandably so) and yet Marlene trusted them with her best friend's daughter. Was there a plan to get her out at some point?

Am I missing something? Please let me know and apologies if the question has been asked before!