Title: "Fly Like a Bird to Your Mountain".
By Tara Westover
This book is really not in vain, and at first glance at the scene of their life at Buck Peak, it is a bit boring, and it feels very far away from our world, and it was once confused with "Desert Flowers".
But then I watched Tara come from the quagmire of her original family step by step, watched the ideological wall that she had been instilled by her father since she was a child gradually collapse in her education, and watched her go from saving her family, to disappointment, to saying goodbye, and her heart trembled.
There are three main things that impressed me deeply in the whole book:
One is the cruelty and arbitrariness of his father. It wasn't until later in school that Tara learned about her father's bipolar disorder, depression, mania, paranoia, euphoria, exaggerated delusions, and delusions of victimization.
The second is his brother Sean, who is too suffocating. The front greatly paved how Sean cared for his sister and became his sister's light, and the back became a ubiquitous magic in an instant. But I think he's sad too. If it weren't for such a father and such a family environment, he might really be a light to others.
The third is Tara's success。She is brave and persevering, neither humble nor arrogant, good at reflection, and reaps the favor of fate, friendship, love and the recognition of her mentor.
It is very difficult to break free from the shackles of the family of origin, which cultivates our cognitive outlook, and in the case of shielding the external environment, we cannot obtain new cognition, so we will only spin in the same place.
Tara's father was a paranoid Mormon who spent his days preparing for the end of the world, not sending his children to school, and providing for the family to be self-sufficient. When she was a child, Tara felt that her father was the truth, and after gradually coming into contact with the outside world, she became suspicious, especially under the leadership of her brother Taylor, Tara began to enter the school, and with excellent grades, she was recognized by her tutor, entered Cambridge to study, and finally successfully walked out of Buck Peak.
Another thing that Tara admires very much about the 2024 Travel Guide is that she is neither humble nor arrogant. Whether it was in the choir in the town or at Brigham Young University, she didn't show cowardice or fear. Looking at myself, whenever I enter a new environment, I feel sensitive and feel that everyone's eyes are on me. Especially when you enter a so-called high-end place, there will be a deep sense of "I am not worthy".
From the point of view of writing techniques, this book has a lot of psychological descriptions, and Tara herself has a lot of psychological construction for Buck Peak, for her father, mother, and brother, including for the home on Buck Peak, unconsciously letting people follow her writing, enter her world, and feel her feelings.