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Hope Jahren's Lab Girl

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In the book, Lab Girl, author Hope Jahren describes her life as a struggle to discover who she really is. Jahren has an inability to express her emotions and describe the events in her life with ease. Throughout the book, Jahren uses different parts of plants and trees to compare and describe her life trials and decisions she makes. Instead of telling us straight forward what problems occurred and how she overcame them; she used her knowledge of plants to mirror her life to that of a plants life to compensate for her inadequacies with emotion. She starts off at the base of the plant, using the roots and seedlings as an explanation for her life choice to become a scientist. In her day, females weren’t seen in STEM fields, majority of women
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