Educate

An analysis by Adam Knight

About the Author Tara Westover, who is also the
main character in her famous
book Educated, is a 32-year-old
Memoirist that has earned
numerous awards, such as the
Audie Award for
Autobiography/Memoir, and the
Goodreads Choice Awards Best
Memoir & Autobiography.
 If you want to know the sheer power of what
About Educated education can do, read this book. Educated tells the
story of a girl that was born in Idaho that never got an
education as a child, or even set foot into a classroom
until the age of seventeen. She was born into a
survivalist family in the mountains and had to do lots
of work for her family that was secluded from society.
To get out of this difficult mess, she started to
educate herself with math and grammar. She
eventually got accepted to Brigham Young University.
 This large text was effective because it
Strategies used by conveyed all of the appeals for a good
Tara purpose, especially pathos and ethos.
Here are some examples:

• “You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye

to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day,
and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”

• “It’s strange how you give the people you love so much
power over you.”

• “I began to experience the most powerful advantage of

money: the ability to think of things besides money.”
 After reading this book, it made me
How the feel more thankful that we have the
book opportunity for a free education
affected me and that we don’t have to be
isolated from mainstream society.
Although we don’t always like
school, the book made me realize
that not everyone has the ability to
go to school everyday, and people
might be in much worse situations.