Connections (Blog 4)

The memoir “Educated” by Tara Westover brings to mind the HULU TV show “The Act” In Educated Tara Westover tells the reader about her experiences about how when she was a child she didn’t go to school or have a birth certificate because her father didn’t trust the government, and in “The Act” Gypsy’s mom is super overprotective and wont let her go any where. The main thing that connects the two is the fact that both of their parents are crazy. In Educated Tara’s Dad Tells her to go stand in the place where they dump the scrap after she goes and stands there her father starts dump scrap on to her she then gets impaled through the leg but her father continues to dump scrap onto her. In the show The Act the main character Gypsy is a 15 year old girl who is diagnosed with Munchhausen syndrome by proxy which means that she isn’t sick but her body makes her believe she is sick when she is around people. It is later found out that own mother is making her sick to keep her from leaving forcing Gypsy to find a way to get away from her mother. In Educated Tara just runs away from her dad but in The Act Gypsy convinces her boyfriend to kill her mom in order to free her. Throughout the book the connections will continue to appear but these are the most obvious ones with the clearest connection between the two.