EDUCATED: A MEMOIR ​ BY TARA WESTOVER

For my English reading class I have chosen a book which is called 'Educated: a memoir', which was written by Tara Westover.      

         Actually, I have chosen this very book because it was recommended by Bill Gates in his blog. I was hooked by this very phrase Bill: ‘I thought I was pretty good at teaching myself—until I read Tara Westover’s memoir Educated. Her ability to learn on her own blows mine right out of the water.’​ 
  As we can see on the book cover there's a pencil which is symbolised education and in this pencil there's a mountain, to my mind, it refers to both 2 things, firstly the mountain shows how hard is to be educated yourself (one of the themes in this book) and secondly, the author pays a lot of attention to mountains and nature itself, where the main character (=author) was raised.

        The issue of liberal education is one of the main ones in this book. Tara: ‘Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind.’ She was trying to overcome her survivalist Mormon family to go to college. In such strong religious communities, it is often happens that children are not educated properly, and there are people who don’t have even now, in 21st century, a minimal skills of writing or reading.