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Educated

Tara Westover
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138 pages • 4 hours read

Tara Westover

Educated: A Memoir

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

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    • Essay Topics

    1.

    What roles do feeling in one’s place and feeling in one’s home play in Tara Westover’s Educated?

    2.

    Explore the culture of masculinity in the Westover home. In what ways do Gene and Shawn’s ideas about masculinity affect the lives of the other family members? How do power and control factor into Gene and Shawn’s own performances of masculinity?

    3.

    What does it mean to “be a woman” to Westover’s family? In the Mormon faith? How do Westover’s ideas about womanhood change as she grows up?

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