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4/30 reflection
the ruby ridge insident didn't make much sence to me, it was confusing to read. i think she made it this way becayse at the time she didn't understand and as a storyteller she wants to makeit confusing for us to understand her thinking then.

4/23 reflection
In the book educated tara observes "next to [her], Vennssa was scibling steadily. Of course she was. she belonged here" as it was her first time being in a university (tara 171) .

I find myself understanding the setting and/or conflict most of the time though sometimes it is hard to understand what is going in with who. maybe the author wrote it like this so it could be easier for the audience to understand what is going on and because it comes from a person's point of view.

unspoken rules impact how we see ourselves like tara when she first went to college in anerican history. she raised her hand for a word she didn't know which was the holocaust and "there was silence. Not a hush, not a mutting of the noise, but utter almost violent silence" and after class vanessa said "You shouldn't make fun of that. its not a joke" (tara 157).

I learned that when Tara was 15, Shawn came back to visit, gained a girlfriend whom he was abusive to mentally and physically, and then he started to become abusive to Tara as "one night he came home late and in a strange mood" and grabed tara by her hair pinning her down (Tara 109).

Survivalist beliefs often come from apocalyptic religious beliefs like Evangelical and catholic books that predict it like in the book Educated where her father said, "there was a divine doctrine here... he would inquire the lord" (Tara 4).

end of chap.