Educated: A Memoir

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

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Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Prologue-Part 1, Chapter 4

Part 1, Chapters 5-9

Part 1, Chapters 10-13

Part 1, Chapters 14-16

Part 2, Chapters 17-21

Part 2, Chapters 22-24

Part 2, Chapters 25-29

Part 3, Chapters 30-34

Part 3, Chapters 35-37

Part 3, Chapters 38-40

Essay Topics

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

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?

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?