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Summarized For Busy People

A Memoir

Based on the Book by Tara Westover

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EDUCATED

BOOK OVERVIEW

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THIS BOOK SUMMARY

PROLOGUE

Chapter 1: Choose the Good

Chapter 2: The Midwife

Chapter 3: Cream Shoes

Chapter 4: Apache Women

Chapter 5: Honest Dirt

Chapter 6: Shield and Buckler

Chapter 7: The Lord Will Provide

Chapter 8: Tiny Harlots

Chapter 9: Perfect in his Generations

Chapter 10: Shield of Feathers

Chapter 11: Instinct

Chapter 12: Fish Eyes

Chapter 13: Silence in the Churches

Chapter 14: My Feet No Longer Touch Earth

Chapter 15: No More a Child

Chapter 16: Disloyal Man, Disobedient Heaven

Chapter 17: To Keep It Holy

Chapter 18: Blood and Feathers

Chapter 19: In the Beginning

Chapter 20: Recital of the Fathers

Chapter 21: Skullcap

Chapter 22: What We Whispered and What We Screamed

Chapter 23: Im from Idaho

Chapter 24: A Knight, Errant

Chapter 25: The Work of Sulphur

Chapter 26: Waiting for Moving Water

Chapter 27: If I Were a Woman

Chapter 28: Pygmalion

Chapter 29: Graduation

Chapter 30: Hand of the Almighty

Chapter 31: Tragedy Then Farce

Chapter 32: A Brawling Woman in a Wide House

Chapter 33: Sorcery of Physics

Chapter 34: The Substance of Things

Chapter 35: West of the Sun

Chapter 36: Four Long Arms, Whirling

Chapter 37: Gambling for Redemption

Chapter 38: Family

Chapter 39: Watching the Buffalo

Chapter 40: Educated

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Tara Westover has had her fair share of life experience from her strange family life as a child to her life totally different from where she had been before, it may not come as a surprise for her to write her own memoir by the age of 32. She was born and raised in Idaho into a family of Mormon survivalistshers was not a life of normalcy being born as the youngest of seven. There had been numerous accidents within her mountainous life with her family from third degree burns to leg skewering to car crashes and this was so despite her parents not believing in modern medicine. They had never believed in formal education so the children, including herself, were raised on homeschooling. Tara had experienced being physically abused all her childhood life and for most of her teenage life at the hands of her own older brother. Despite having no formal education before her 17th, she was still able to enter Brigham Young University for her undergraduate education and later on was able to get into Cambridge University on a Gates scholarship pursuing PhD in intellectual history and political thought come 2014.

She was able to publish an excerpt of her book, Educated, on the February 15, 2018 issue of the Time magazine entitled What Happened after I Left My Survivalist Family and Went to College. She was then offered by Random House to publish her whole book by February 20. Her book went on to become the #1 New York Times bestseller which received positive reviews from the New York Times Book Review, the New York Time, and the Atlantic. They had commended how she had shown the relevance of people living underprivileged lives in America where there are full of opportunities. They had later noted that the narrator still was not ready to step into the light despite the degrees and certificates she had.

Tara Westover was born without a birth certificate, but she was born sometime in 1986 in Idaho. Despite the obstacles she had to face while growing up, she was able to receive her Bachelors degree from Brigham Young University in 2008. She then pursued her Masters of Philosophy from Trinity College at Cambridge and awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She was later able to earn her PhD in History from Cambridge in 2014 after becoming a visiting fellow at Harvard University.

This book summary serves as a guide to Tara Westovers Educated. No text of the actual book is included, so if you prefer, you may purchase a copy before you proceed.

This guide includes a summary of the story of a girl whose familys worldviews clashed with her own desire to study and learn. It recounts the tale of Tara Westover as she goes through years of study while trying to maintain her relationship with her family. This book summary contains an overview, about the author, and a prologue, apart from the chapters of the story.

The story opens with one of Taras earlier memories as a seven year old: the valley and mountain of Idaho and her family living isolated on the hillside. At that age, she was aware that she was living a life different from the people on the valley below their home. Her life with her six other siblings were mostly unrecordedfour of the siblings did not have birth certificates and they did not went to school but were rather homeschooled. The family never believed in modern medicine so she had never seen a doctor or a nurse. Without a birth certificate until she was nine years old, she had never officially existed in the state of Idaho.

Bucks Peak was the considered the most finely crafted peak on the mountain range where she lived. Her father would often call it the Indian Princess because of how it resembled a womans body. He would even describe the huge ravines as her legs and the spray of pines spread all over the northern ridge as her hair. The nomadic Indians used this as an indication of whence spring came about from when the snow melted, showing the mountains form.

Taras father, Gene Westover, was a hardworking and extremely religious man who had never ceased to work all his life and had the Bible as his guide. Despite her love for her father, he had a worldview that caused him to clash with his mother, Taras paternal grandmother sometimes called Grandma-down-the-hill, since she had constantly tried persuading Gene to let his children attend school.

Gene had his worldviews as somewhat taken to the extreme that he had become paranoid in his opinions about the government. He raised his children in fear of them through a story about their neighbors, the Weavers who is another family of freedom fighters, being surrounded by the Feds because of the father of the family would not allow his children to go to school. One night, one of his sons tried to sneak out of the house to go hunting and the Feds shot him dead. Until now, he says, the surviving family is still inside their cabin with their guns and stockpiled food. Gene strongly believes that the educational system is used to lead children away from God.

He had raised his children to keep with them water purifiers, flint, steel, guns, knives, herbal medicines, and military MREs or meals ready-to-eat. This way, they would be prepared when such time comes that the Feds come for them. In preparation for this, the family also bottle and store peaches as well as bury military-surplus rifles. Gene also has a machine that can manufacture bullets from spent cartridges.