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Patricia Barry asked this question about Educated:

This book is disgusting to me. I do not understand why an educated and worldly individual would have difficulty understanding the horrible and violent upbringing that she experienced. It is unbelievable to me that she could not understand the violent situation, yet uneducated upbringing she endured. I have completely misunderstood her manner of education in a life in our country, in this country, how is this possible?

Noah L Patricia- did you really read this book?? The entire jist of the book is that she, in fact, was not educated enough to understand so many of the issue…morePatricia- did you really read this book?? The entire jist of the book is that she, in fact, was not educated enough to understand so many of the issues in her life. From upbringing until she left to college Tara was neither educated or worldly.

From the last lines of the book, " The night I called her (her being the old Tara who hadn't went to college) and she didn't answer. She left me. She stayed in the mirror. The decisions I made after moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self. You could call this new selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity, Betrayal. I call it an education. "
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