Schooled Analysis

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Imagine being someone who doesn't know anyone, where anything is, and how to do most things. “Schooled” is about someone named Cap who was raised in a hippy commune and ends up moving to the city where he barely knows anything. In the story, Cap meets many people that change throughout the story, and they get “Schooled.” Being schooled is being taught something. “Schooled” is an appropriate title for this book.

One of the characters that get schooled in the story is Rain. She learns that staying at garland and being a hippy won't prepare Cap for the real world once she died. On pg 206, it says, “When I'm gone, You'll have to get along in the real world. That won't happen if we stay at Garland.” This shows that if they stay at Garland,

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