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Concetti Chiave

  • "Educated: A Memoir" is a fictionalized biography by Tara Westover, reflecting her life and family dynamics.
  • The memoir details Tara's upbringing under a strict, fundamentalist Mormon family led by a controlling, bipolar father.
  • Tara and her siblings were isolated from mainstream society, relying on home-based learning focused on religious teachings.
  • At seventeen, Tara chose education as her escape, eventually earning a doctorate and facing familial rejection.
  • The narrative highlights Tara's journey of self-discovery and resilience, offering a powerful and compelling story of personal transformation.

"Educated: A Memoir" is the first novel written by the American author Tara Westover. The author was born in Idaho in 1986 and this novel contains many autobiographical hints, indeed, it can be considered her fictionalized biography.

"Educated: A Memoir" is the touching and profound story of a woman (the author), with a violent and bipolar father, slave of the Mormons, with enormous difficulties of survival to abstruse and logical beliefs and myths.

Indice

  1. Vita sotto la montagna
  2. Regole e credenze familiari
  3. Fuga e rinascita di Tara

Vita sotto la montagna

The protagonist lives under the mountain, called "the princess", which is their point of reference and protection. Their world is born and ends there, waiting for the end of the world, around the years 2000. Here only the messages of God and what Gene, the father, preaches.

Tara and her six brothers do not go to school, they do not go to the doctor, they do not get vaccinated, they do not exist for the registry office.

Regole e credenze familiari

Respect the word of the Lord and expect the spectacular end: the father Gene dictates the rules and instructs the children, the mother is the midwife, cure through herbal teas and infusions. Everything that happens in the outside world is evil, it is a representation of the devil. Children are taught by their mother to read and write; but only for the purpose of reading and learning the Holy Scriptures and counting for survival.

Fuga e rinascita di Tara

At age seventeen, Tara flees from this fundamentalist family and decides to study. He goes to the University, he graduates, he obtains a doctorate. From the family she is repudiated, they call her and consider her "a whore".

Its rebirth passes through a process of growth, of acquiring one's own self and one's personality, not without fatigue or pain. A courageous story, intimate and intimate, a deep and intense rebirth that strikes and fascinates in the depths. A memoir with a strong narrative impact and a solid construct.

Domande da interrogazione

  1. Qual è il tema principale di "Educated: A Memoir"?
  2. Il tema principale è la storia di crescita e rinascita di Tara Westover, che fugge da una famiglia fondamentalista per ottenere un'istruzione e scoprire la propria identità.

  3. Come viene descritta la famiglia di Tara nel libro?
  4. La famiglia di Tara è descritta come fondamentalista, con un padre violento e bipolare che segue credenze mormoni estreme, e una madre che cura con tisane e infusi, rifiutando la medicina moderna.

  5. Quali sono le sfide che Tara affronta nel suo percorso di istruzione?
  6. Tara affronta il rifiuto della sua famiglia, che la considera una "prostituta", e deve superare le difficoltà di adattarsi a un mondo esterno che le era stato insegnato a temere e disprezzare.

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