No matter how dark your birth family is, believe that knowledge will bring you light and hope

No matter how dark your birth family is, believe that knowledge will bring you light and hope.

Tara Westover is an American historian and writer with a Ph.D. in history from the University of Cambridge. Tara was born into a peculiar family, and his extremely paranoid and crazy father was like the unquestioned tyrannical ruler of the family, who did not let his children go to school and seek medical treatment, and his father thought that going to school and seeking medical treatment was like a flood beast. Contrary to their beliefs.

Some people use childhood to heal their whole lives, and some people use their lives to heal their childhood, Tara undoubtedly belongs to the latter, Tara has seven children in the family, Tara is the youngest child. The original family is like a shackle, deeply bound to Tara. The father's coercive arbitrariness, extreme paranoia, the mother's promises, obedience to the father. And the eldest brother, Sean, is a bloody and violent presence in this family. For Tara, Sean was undoubtedly her nightmare, shoving Tara's head into the toilet without a word, violently beating Tara, and even threatening Tara with a blood-stained knife. At that time, Tara must have thought that life was like this.

Fortunately, Taylor, who was admitted to college, changed Tara and gave Tara a chance to see the outside world. Bring light to Tara. I have always admired Tara, step by step, from that suffocating original family, slowly transformed into an independent and confident woman with a sense of freedom.

In the end, Tara, like the title of the book, flew like a bird to the mountain to which he belonged.