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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 31
Summary

Westover had gone back to Arizona for a vacation and was about to fly back to England. The day before traveling back to England, she drove to the mountain ranges to pay her sister, Audrey, a visit. She met her sister at home with her four children. During the visit, Audrey showed Westover different types of oils that their mother used to apply including linoleum, eucalyptus, birch, and ravensara. Given the different interests that the sisters had at this point, it was evident that it would be challenging for them to have a deeper conversation with each other. Audrey never asked Westover questions regarding England nor Cambridge. Westover states that “she had no frame of reference for my life, so we talked about hers” (265). Audrey talked about how corrupt the public school system was, which was why she was teaching her children by herself. Like the former Westover, however, Audrey had never attended any public school and knew nothing about it.

Analysis

The stark contrast in the lives of Audrey and Westover is a clear example of the general effects of brainwashing that a person experiences, especially when exposed to a given ideology for an extended time (Westover 267). For instance, Audrey held the belief that the public school system is corrupt even though she had never attended one in her lifetime. Her lack of schooling also appeared to make her lose touch with a lot of things in her life. The problem is evidenced in the fact that she fails to ask Westover about England or Cambridge as she has no connections with such places. Her knowledge is thus limited to the world immediately around her.

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