Themes
What is the overarching theme of the novel?
What is Self-Acceptance? (329)
(Maycee) What is the symbol for isolation?
What is the mountain?
(Haneena) Who abused Tara physically?
Who is Shawn? (115)
(Forest) How many Westover children are there?
What is 7? (XII)
What shape does the mountain make?
What is the Indian Princess? (Prologue)
What is Tara doing to her family at the end of the novel?
What is cutting them off? (313)
(Maycee) What symbol shows how the Westovers lived.
What is the Indian Princess because of their survivalist ways?
(Haneena) What does Shawn do to his wife when she buys the wrong crackers?
What is throws her out into the winter alone? (262)
(Forest) How old is Tara at the start of the book?
What is 7? (XII)
Where did Tara get her PhD?
What is Cambridge? (235)
What happens that brings Tara closer to her extended family?
What is her grandmothers death? (324)
(Maycee) What symbol best represents Gene?
What is the Shears because he is obsessed with power and control over his family?
(Haneena) For what reason does Tara shut herself in and start failing her PhD?
What is her parents visit to Harvard? (303)
(Forest) How old is Tara when she first steps into a classroom?
What is 17? (54)
What is the first college Tara attends?
What is BYU? (154)
Why does Tara continue to sing?
What is brings her father joy? (82)
(Maycee) What symbol shows Tara's resistance?
What is penicillin because it shows her rejection towards her family's beliefs and feelings towards the outside world?
(Haneena) What causes Audrey to stop talking about Shawn?
What is her father’s interference and “oracle”? (325)
(Forest) Who does Audrey marry?
Who is Benjamin? (112)
What state do the Westovers live in?
What is Idaho? (Prologue)
What conclusion does Tara come to about her mother?
What is her mother will lie to her and always side with Gene? (285)
(Maycee)What symbols best represents Shawn?
What is the knife because it represents his violent tendencies and his insecurity?
(Haneena) What happens between Faye and Gene after Gene's mother dies?
What is Faye confronts and stands up to Gene for the first time? (277)
(Forest) What are the real names of Gene and Faye?
Who are Val and LaRee?
What was Tara's first job?
What is Randy's Store? (78)