Category: novels

Reading time: 202 1-9-5

Content abstract: Tara, a mountain girl who never stepped into the classroom before she was seventeen years old, put on a high hat with academic qualifications through her own efforts, which was radiant. She is timid, broken and self-doubting. Until I escaped from the mountain and opened another world. That is the new world that education has given her, and that is the infinite possibility of life.

I. Introduction to the author

? Tara Westerfer, American writer and historian. 1986 was born in the mountains of Idaho. I/kloc-I never went to school before I was 0/7 years old. I was admitted to Brigham Young University through self-study and got my bachelor's degree in 2008. In 2009, he received a Gates Cambridge Scholarship and a Master of Philosophy degree from Cambridge University. 20 10 won a scholarship from Harvard University and became a visiting scholar. 20 14 received a doctorate in history from Cambridge university. The first novel, You Fly to Your Mountain Like a Bird, is a memoir written by her according to her own growth and study experience. 20 19 was named "Person of the Year" by Time magazine.

Second, the main characters in the novel

1. Tara (doctor)

2. Sister Audrey Tara?

4. Brother Tony Tara

5. Taylor (PhD)

6. Luke (male name)

7. Richard (Doctor)

8. Sean

9. Dad Tara

10. Mother Tara

There were seven Tara brothers and sisters, three left the mountain and four stayed behind. Three people got doctorates and four people didn't have a high school diploma.

Third, wonderful sentences

? 1. Having positive freedom means controlling your thoughts, liberating yourself from irrational fears and beliefs, and liberating yourself from addiction, superstition and all other forms of self-compulsion.

2. The past is a ghost, illusory and has no influence. Only the future has weight.

? 3. To liberate ourselves from spiritual slavery, only we can emancipate our minds.

Fourth, reading comprehension.

Tara lived in a feudal and superstitious family, and this oppression caused indelible harm to her, prompting him to make up his mind to pursue the life he wanted. Later, through her own efforts, she obtained Brigham Young University, Harvard University and Cambridge University, and finally obtained a doctorate in history from Cambridge University. It is education that gives Tara a brand-new perspective, which frees her from the bondage and oppression of her family, defends herself with knowledge, new horizons and self-confidence, and welcomes the unknown life.

After reading this book, I think it is education that has changed Tara, and it is also education that has shaped a brand-new Tara. I admire Tara's spirit of hard work, firm belief and daring to challenge her destiny.

Tara said in an interview with Forbes magazine: "Education means getting different perspectives and understanding different people, experiences and history. Get an education, but don't let your education become arrogant. Education should be the expansion of thoughts, the deepening of empathy and the broadening of horizons. You shouldn't make your prejudice more stubborn. If people are educated, they should become less sure, not more sure. They should listen more and talk less, be passionate about differences and love ideas different from them. " Every sentence in this book well proves her own point of view. Receiving a better education means having more possibilities to live.

? The stage is as big as the heart. As long as you want to "fly", you can "fly" to the mountain you yearn for.

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Time /202 1- 10-29