Educated By Tara Westover

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Tara Westover, the main character in the memoir “Educated” is an interesting character that went through a drastic transformation over the course of the book. At the beginning she is introduced as a young girl living in a strict Mormon household in Idaho. The way Tara is in the beginning of the story is mainly influenced by how her parents are. Taras parents do not believe in sending their kids to school and instead they teach them at home. This resulted in Tara having very little exposure to the outside world, so the only thing she knows is what her parents chose to teach her even if it was very wrong. Over the course of the book Tara begins to transform and question the beliefs and values that she has been taught, she starts to become curious