It is clear that she's struggling between two lives, one that lives in the mountains and the other at BYU. These two lives constantly intersect as she constantly changes her previous perspective in life. Thus I believe it a necessity that she abandon her previous life. She is slowly shedding her previous life for this more traditionally normal life. We see this when she starts pushing back against her father, at one point she even screams back at him because she finally understood the gravity on how much her father has hurt her and her family. We can also see that she's slowly solidifying…