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Educated - A Memoir
Tara Westover
Contributed by Micheal Celestin
Content
Overview
Context
Themes
Reviews
Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
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Chapter 26
Summary

In this chapter, Westover opens up about her father’s sickness after being a victim of an explosion in the junkyard. Her father could not leave his bed unless one of her brothers carried him. He had enemas and had to pee in a bottle. While the family hoped that he would get well and live, they feared that this condition would turn out for the worst. Westover recalls that “all we could do was wait, and soon it felt as though everything we did was just another form of waiting” (Westover 223). They waited for him to change bandages as they fed him to go back to the right state of health. She also remembers that it was hard to comprehend that her father had slumped into such a condition that negatively affected her mother.

Analysis

The chapter presents the emotional ties that exist among people of the same family. Despite their differences, Westover was saddened when the father was injured in the explosion. It shows a family that is united by love in grief.

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