Memoir / Non-FictionTara Westover ยท 2018
Educated in Emojis
From a survivalist mountain to a Cambridge PhD โ in emoji.
Raised by radical survivalist parents in rural Idaho with no schooling, Tara Westover teaches herself enough to enter college โ a journey to a PhD that costs her family but frees her mind.
The plot in emoji
Educated emoji summary, decoded
Here's what each part of the emoji story means, beat by beat.
- โฐ๏ธ๐งTara grows up in an Idaho junkyard, kept from school and doctors.
- ๐ซ๐Her father preaches the end times; there are no birth certificates.
- ๐ฉน๐จHome 'medicine' and a violent brother mark her childhood.
- ๐โ๏ธShe secretly studies and passes the college entrance exam.
- ๐ซ๐At university she learns of the Holocaust โ and of a wider world.
- ๐โ๏ธScholarships carry her to Cambridge and a doctorate.
- ๐๐ Estranged from her family, she reclaims her own mind and story.
The cast of Educated in emoji
The main characters, one emoji each โ tap any to copy.
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Tara Westover
The self-taught memoirist.
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Her father
The survivalist patriarch.
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Education
The force that remakes her.
Educated emoji set
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Did you know?
The memoir spent years on bestseller lists and was picked by countless book clubs, including Bill Gates's recommendations.
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