Question

In the first pages of "Educated," we are introduced to the mountain in rural Idaho where the Westover family lives, described as a dark, beautiful and commanding form in a "jagged little patch of Idaho." How does this setting inform the family's experience?

Answer 1

Answer:

 “Educated” starts with an epigraph from Virginia Woolf: “The past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only the past.” What do you think Woolf meant by this? Why do you think Tara Westover chose to begin her memoir this way?