https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj Made with eyes on the prize en-us 2021-04-28 20:49:28 UTC 2025-10-05 16:51:45 UTC hello@padlet.com erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1559485761 Tara's dad believed that when the year 2000 hit the world would end. Tara's father prepared for the days of abomination by packing peaches in a mason jar and buying gold; because gold would be more valuable than money in the end. These preparations frightened Tara and she tried her hardest to prepare herself for "the days of abomination" but when 12:00 am on December 31 1999 hit nothing changed. ]]> 2021-05-25 22:44:00 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1559485761 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1559495946 Tara's father told her and her family about the Weavers. They, just like the Westover family, did not send their children to government schools because they did not want them to be brain washed. Apparently, the government  went to their house and got mad at them for not sending them to school so the police shot the father and child that went to look for his father. This terrified the family and made them want to isolate themselves from the rest of the world more. 
" They're freedom fighters. They wouldn't let the government brainwash their kids in them public schools, so the Feds came after them." (chapter 1 page 9)]]> 2021-05-25 22:50:52 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1559495946 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1559524195 Tyler was the only family member who had decided to go to college. Tyler would listen to music with Tara every night, she loved listening to music and developed a love for it. Tara later started to sing, her voice was beautiful. Tara's singing made her interested in plays and musicals. She stared in many musicals and it became her hobby and connection to the real world outside of her mountain. Later on, Tara also went to college and she went to college to learn how to properly sing.]]> 2021-05-25 23:10:26 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1559524195 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1559530586 Tara had seen that Shawn would mentally abuse his girlfriend Sadie. Shawn began to treat Tara like how he treated Sadie, when Tara did not go along with what he said he quickly became angry. Shawn grabbed a fistful of her hair and started to pull it leading her down the hall to the bathroom. Shawn was telling Tara to apologize to him but she refused. When Shawn got to the bathroom he put her hands behind her back and started to push her head inside the toilet and only let her come out when she apologized to him.
" He grabbed a fistful of my hair; a large clump, his grip fixed near the root to give him greater leverage and dragged me into the bathroom". (Chapter 12 page 110)]]> 2021-05-25 23:14:28 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1559530586 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1559547347 Tara would get abused by Shawn all the time. She tried to take it as a joke because she did not want to feel the pain, she did not want Shawn to have the satisfaction of knowing that he caused her pain. Tara is called awful names by her brother and is constantly being humiliated. Tara's family members did nothing to stop it. ]]> 2021-05-25 23:25:16 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1559547347 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1562337159 All her life Tara was not allowed to go to school she knew nothing but what her father wanted to tell her. Her mother used to teach to her but when she got older her Father wanted Tara to work for him instead of doing school. All of Tara's childhood she would work for her Father in a dangerous environment full of harmful weapons that had injured her father and brothers countless times. When the abuse with Shawn was too much for Tara she decided that she needed to leave and get an education away from Bucks peak, Idaho. ]]> 2021-05-26 17:30:57 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1562337159 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1562374405 Tara talks to her brother Tyler who went to Brigham young university. Tyler explained to Tara that what she needed to take one test in order to be able to be accepted into a university, the ACT. Tara took a practice test for the ACT and scored very poorly so she started to study, she went out and bought textbooks and began to teach herself. After weeks of studying Tara went to take the ACT. It was the first time she had ever stepped inside a classroom, she was 17 years old and had never been inside a classroom, it was a strange environment for her . When she sat down she saw a bubble sheet where they had to record their answers she had never seen a bubble sheet before. Tara takes the test and scores a 22 but she needed at least a 27 to get accepted into BYU. She was on the verge of giving up but she decided to take it once again and she scored a 28.  " I  scanned down to the composite score. Twenty-eight. I checked it again. I checked my name there was no mistake". (chpt. 17 pg 148)]]> 2021-05-26 17:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1562374405 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1562429110 Tara applies to the same school her older brother went to and she gets accepted, after a couple weeks it was time to go to school. Tara's mother took her to her new home. She was going to share an apartment with two other girls. When Tara met her two new roommates she was shocked, she saw their clothes and thought that they were too inappropriate and she could not look at them (the "inappropriate clothes were tank tops and tight track suits) . Everything was different there, she heard so much noises that she was never used to hearing like cars and traffic and people talking outside. ]]> 2021-05-26 17:54:23 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1562429110 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1562429858 Tara took the wrong bus on the way to her first day of class which made her arrive late. When she got to her class the lecture was almost over. When the professor  looked at Tara she told her that she did not belong there and Tara was close to confessing everything about her childhood and her not going to school. The teacher then told her that the class she had signed up for was for seniors and that her class was different one for freshman.
" this class is for seniors" 'she said 'there are classes for seniors ?' I said. (chapter 17 page 155)

]]> 2021-05-26 17:54:36 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1562429858 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1588159299 West over, Tara. Educated. Random House , 2018. ]]> 2021-06-06 17:29:01 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1588159299 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1588175139 Tara's first couple of weeks in school were very difficult, because of what her father would tell her during her childhood she was ignorant to many things. One day, Tara was in class and they mentioned the holocaust she did not know what that was so she raised her hand and asked, this made people think that she was trying to make a joke out of it. There were many things that Tara did not know she was clueless to almost everything and everyone they mentioned so she would have to go home and do research on her own. ]]> 2021-06-06 17:47:49 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1588175139 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1594191636 As the time went on Tara began to learn more and more and her eyes were opened. Tara learned that the things her father told her and her family were all false and she began to think a different way then them. For instance, Tara grew up believing that taking medicine was unholy and bad for you because if God gave you pain then you had to deal with it, they also thought that the medicine that the government made was only going to harm you. Later on, Tara realized that medicine was only used to help you. " mother always said that medical drugs are a special kind of poison, one that never leaves your body but rots you slowly from the inside for the rest of your life". (chpt 21 page 183)]]> 2021-06-08 23:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1594191636 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1594192189 When the semester ended Tara went back to her home in bucks peak Idaho. She was anxious because she would have to face her brother Shawn. When she returned her memories from BYU faded and she was back in the reality that she hated, working with her father picking up metal scraps and dealing with her ignorant family. Shawn calls Tara horrible names but the difference is that now Tara knows what those horrible words mean.
" the word and the way Shawn said it hadn't changed; only my ears were different. They no longer heard the jingle of a joke in it". (chpt 20 pg 181)]]> 2021-06-08 23:03:53 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1594192189 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1594192431 In the first four years of Tara's education she had many ups and downs. In the beginning she did not know a single thing, she did not even know that to study for a test you needed to read the textbook she only looked at the pictures in them and tried her best. As the time went on Tara became a very intelligent young woman; she had entered the university at the age of 17. When she got her bachelors degree she applied to a program in the university of Cambridge at first she was rejected but then one of her professors wrote to the administrators at Cambridge and she was accepted. ]]> 2021-06-08 23:04:08 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1594192431 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1594193513 Over the years Tara's relationship with her family wasn't the best but she decided to tell them something that was troubling her for many years. Tara finally decides to tell her family about all the abuse Shawn had gave her. At first she told her mother and her mother told her that she believed her and she knew that her father would believe her too. This gave Tara a big relief she was so glad her mother believed her. Then, Tara went to go talk with her sister Audrey who told her that she had the same experience with Shawn and that she too would confess to her parents.
" it's being dealt with,' she said. 'I told your father what you and your sister said. Shawn will get help'". (chapter 31 pg. 272) ]]> 2021-06-08 23:04:48 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1594193513 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1594193658 During her final days at Cambridge professor stein berg had asked Tara if she had ever considered going to Harvard. She thought about how she would pay for Harvard she didn't like using scholarships because she felt guilty but she still used them because she could not pay for school on her own. Tara told him she would like to go and the professor organized everything for her. When Tara arrived at Harvard for the first time she did not feel like an outsider, she felt like she actually belonged there which was a big change from all her other first day of school experiences. ]]> 2021-06-08 23:04:57 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1594193658 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1594193899 When Tara went back to Harvard she was shocked by what happened. She regretted ever telling anyone, other than her father not believing her when Tara asked Audrey to tell her dad that she experienced the same thing she denied everything. Tara's entire family stopped talking to her, they thought she was being possessed  by the devil because she kept telling them that she was telling the truth.  Until one day Tara doubted herself she stopped trusting herself and became depressed, she stopped studying and spent her days in bed watching TV she was a mess. She wrote to Shawn's ex girlfriends so that they could reassure her that he was evil but then she believed that they were lying as well, until one day she met with a man and he recognized her last name, Westover, he asked her if she was related to Shawn, he then said that Shawn almost killed his cousin by abuse and this is when Tara realized that she was right and not crazy. " ' well the last time I saw your brother'... 'he had both his hands wrapped around my cousins neck and he was smashing her head into a brick wall". (chapter 35 pg 295) ]]> 2021-06-08 23:05:10 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1594193899 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1594194835 Tara finally got her life back together. She had not seen her parents for years. Her mother refused to see her because Tara was not ready to see her father and Tara's mother said she would not go anywhere without her husband. Tara graduated from Harvard and earned her PHD she was now Dr. Westover, she had done it she did everything she ever wanted to do, she escaped her abusive home, got an education, became successful and she grew into a strong independent woman. Tara traveled and studied in different  countries around the world, she lived with her boyfriend in a flat in London. Tara did it she was now educated. ]]> 2021-06-08 23:06:02 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1594194835 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1594630545 Tara really excelled at Cambridge she was a great student and had a close bond with one of her professors, professor Stein-burg. Although Tara excelled academically at Cambridge she still felt like an outsider around all those people. There were girls with wealthy families that dressed nicely and had gone to Europe 10 times but she was different she grew up isolated on a mountain. When professor Stein-burg read Tara's final essay he had said that it was one of the best he had read.
" ' I have been teaching Cambridge for thirty years'... "And this is one of the best essays I've read. (chpt 28 pg. 240)]]> 2021-06-09 02:41:46 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1594630545 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1600461356 When Tara heard that her mother believed her she became more confident, and she felt better with who she was. Tara went back to bucks peak. Tara's mother told her that her father believed her too and that he supported her. When the day came to talk to her father it all went the wrong way. At first, Tara went out with Shawn he was acting really nice she even thought he changed. When all of a sudden Shawn stopped the car and asked her if she had talked to her sister he then said that she was a liar and he would put a bullet in her head, this clearly terrified Tara. When Tara got to her house she went to talk to her dad, she told him everything but he just asked her if she had proof because if she did not then he could not believe her. Tara looked at her mother to back her up but her mother said nothing. Tara felt betrayed.
" Every time I suggested that Shawn was violent or manipulative in any way, dad shouted at me, 'wheres proof? Do you have proof?'". (chapter 34 pg 284)]]> 2021-06-11 06:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1600461356 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1602005005 2021-06-11 22:29:00 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1602005005 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1602005207 2021-06-11 22:29:17 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1602005207 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1602006189 2021-06-11 22:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1602006189 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1602011998 2021-06-11 22:38:37 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1602011998 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1602014803 2021-06-11 22:42:46 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1602014803 erazonic0001_1 https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1602221116 Tara and her family were very religious people. They did not do many things like other people. The West over family was Mormon they believed that the government would brain wash their children if they sent them to school so the family "taught" their children at home. Tara's life purpose was to get married and have children. Tara did not want to get married because in their religion, her husband would have many wives and she would just be another wife to him and nothing else. Tara and her family did not go to a hospital or use medical medicine. Over the years, Tara and her family got very hurt to the point of life and death but they never let any of them go to the hospital. Tara believed that she was worth nothing because of how she was treated and looked at by her family. ]]> 2021-06-12 04:07:41 UTC https://padlet.com/erazonic0001_1/q7vjl8fxjqxpvkcj/wish/1602221116