The fact that Tara didn’t know the significance of the word ‘holocaust’ shows how innocent and uneducated she was. This was a word that was thought to students as they were growing up in the educational system. Following this incident, the book clearly shows awareness of racism. It’s portrait around Tara as she is learning more and more about it. As she is evolving on this subject, she noticed how ignorant her own family is about it. When she came back home that summer between the two semesters, it was amazingly clear that she was living her whole life surrounded by racism comment. Ignorance…