[Busy] What a child who was not in the world discovered... 'Discovery of learning'

[Gollum] Busy and Busy 284: What a child who did not exist in the world discovered...

'Learning discovery'

Tara Westover, an American born in 1986, tells the story of her childhood.

It's a somewhat incredible story.

However, it is said that there are still not a few people in the United States living like this.

Right now, some of Tara's nephews are out of school at this moment in 2021.

Tara Westover received a PhD in History from Cambridge in 2014 when she was 28 years old.

And in 2018, I wrote this book [Discovery of Learning], which I want to read together in [Busy and Bukkake], inspiring a great topic, controversy, and overwhelming emotion in American society at the same time.

[Learning Discovery] was listed on the recommended books for 2018 selected by the New York Times and Amazon Bookstore, respectively, and was selected as one of the'Recommended Books of the Year' published by former Presidents Bill Gates and Obama each year.

Tara Westover is also included in the 2019 Time Magazine's '100 Most Influential People in the World'.

However, going back 10 years, Tara was a child who had never even entered a classroom until she was 16 years old.

Until then, I had never heard of the term'holocaust', nor had I ever heard of Martin Luther King's name.

I didn't even have the idea that women can major in history or law and'you may want to'.

Tara Westover was born into a family with an extremely fundamentalist atmosphere among The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (hereafter Mormonism).

Tara's father believes that the school will harm the children's full faith, and he thinks that the moment he uses any convenience or welfare of the institution, including hospitals, he will fall under the control of the government.

That's why Tara's family literally doesn't go to the hospital, even if their heads are broken or in a major car accident.

Tara's father certainly loves his family and wants his daughter to be happy, but when he feels his authority has been challenged, he unknowingly establishes his position by finding a job that could threaten the lives of his family.

Building a high wall between the family and the world, I think of it as the will of God.

One of Tara's older brothers cares for Tara more than anyone else, and takes on the dangerous things his father tells him to do, instead of Tara, but he tries to assault and manipulate Tara seriously.

But until she entered Brigham Young College, run by the Mormon Church at the age of 17, Tara knows only her family.

As she touches the outside world and begins college education, she develops little by little her mental strength and discernment to face the state of her family and herself, and Tara Westover's lifelong'soul battle' begins.

Of course, Tara's experience is unlikely to be representative of the overall Mormon life. Tara entered college and her father's journey They come to realize that their father is caused by a mental illness, nor can Mormons teach them to feel the pleasure of beating and manipulating their younger sisters. She grew up neglected and left unnoticed, but the journey following Tara's confession naturally reminds me of why the response, “There are so many great Mormons,” is nothing more than an essay answer to the reality she was facing. It's not about what name her environment has, how much morality and discipline are esteemed, but her closed community, an environment that is easy to structurally reject progress and change, is like Tara's father or brother who is sick in her heart. The key is that people can hide and cast shade everywhere to cover up abuse and ignorance:

Tara, who suddenly came to the world at the age of 17, begins to'get an education'. Education means that humanity absorbs efforts and debates, communication and records about objectivity that mankind has accumulated so far. By doing so, you can develop the power to have a “gaze” for yourself. Tara begins to literally break out of the egg by studying and thinking. They begin to grasp with their eyes, and they begin to distinguish between themselves with wings and vitality and the egg shells that should be broken and thrown away. In Tara's unusual life, it is a process that leads to the recognition that his beloved family has been abusing him. It is also a pain that you must not avoid the realization that you must break up with your own roots to get up.

What is truly special about this book is that you can't get out of the bondage of your father or brother, the main culprit of abuse, and rather your daughter (brother). Tara takes care of the circumstances, pain, and human consequences of all the family members in three dimensions, one by one, and she is swallowed up by the sickness of her heart. Tara's father and brother are by no means happy or preferential people in that they have missed the opportunity to recognize problems as problems in a closed world that can wield the patriarchal authority without check. Father, who is trying to calm down even if he is injured by himself, only gives warm comfort when he hears over the phone the voice of his daughter, who has not been able to keep up with the class at the university, and without knowing it himself-abuse or ignorance in the family. Because it is combined with love or sincere affection, the author is more terrifying and difficult to separate or recognize, and the journey he has learned one by one while hurting the life and death of the heart, the author disassembles and unfolds each piece with outstanding insight. Great healing time and once again a prize

It is difficult to guess if it was a process of digging deeper into the wives.

Tara now lives in New York as a famous and acclaimed writer.

But I think even at this very moment, the soul of Tara Westover will be challenged with trauma day by day.

Suddenly, the days of sleeping at night will still come to her from time to time.

A life in which a loved and hated family is rejected and rejected at the same time, and one has to rewrite one's history one by one is not a life that can be as comfortable as famous and popular.

However, there is only a meaningful difference in that Tara accepts and faces the contradictions that have occurred everywhere in her life, and realizes that she has the power to overcome the self-denial that will sometimes attack her.

Although Tara was born in a very extreme environment, Tara's story actually touches the different kinds of alienation that many people experience.

It is hardest to get out of the way this alienation works in the home, but in a broader perspective, it is really not easy for an individual who has grown up in an atmosphere that takes social prejudice or discrimination for granted properly recognizes and overcomes it.

This is why we listen deeply to Tara's voice, who overcame the alienation that inevitably accompanies self-loathing and division.

Tara pulls out why the various people in the world who listen to the words of'the person voluntarily wants a person to be abused (alienated, inferior, discriminated)' are showing'voluntary' behavior.

Tara proves so overwhelmingly the power of the human mind that can eventually reach the point where he thinks with his head, no matter where he started.

What he has learned through this book gives us back to learning.

We are eloquent in our own lives about how precious all kinds of freedom and learning that mankind has acquired through fighting little by little over such a long period of time.

Tara's life demonstrates the power of the human spirit, the value of freedom, and the importance of an open society.

If you're an American reader, you'll get a glimpse at the mechanisms by which the loopholes of the American system now work, where extreme religious fundamentalism and conspiracy theories like Curenan can dig.

At the same time, the possibilities of education and systems in the United States are once again confirmed.

(Including the Mormon-affiliated Brigham Young University Bishop, the school where Tara first attends) Tara's teachers who appear in every gobigobi that collapse and raise her up seem like a shining tribute to Western education.

As time goes by after reading this book, what should the story of Tara read as a non-American person...

Various thoughts bit the tail.

Right now, children in many parts of the world cannot even dream of Tara's life after the age of 17.

There are so many children whose possibility of becoming Tara has been blocked.

On the other hand, just as children born like Tara appear even in the United States, there are still children in Korean society who are born and hidden behind closed doors and do not get the possibility of life.

There are conventions that are still used without a sense of a big problem, and conventions where the finger pointing out the problem is rather fingered.

Both the freedoms and the right to education that we now enjoy were tremendous privileges that were granted only to a few in the past.

If so, our privilege now is the courage not to lower our fingers, despite any fingerings, pointing to problems that have become aware and suspicious.

By doing so, I wonder if these are times that contribute to making the privileges given only to a few today into a right for all tomorrow.

Everyone who listens, I am always deeply grateful.

*I received permission to read the publishing company'Open Books'.

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