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Buck’s Peak, the mountain that looms over Westover’s hometown, serves as a powerful symbol throughout Educated. What exactly does the mountain represent? Keep in mind the core themes of the memoir, as you reflect on these questions:
Teaching Suggestion: Buck’s Peak serves as a symbol for home for Westover, and her complicated relationship to “home.” The mountain also represents stability–for better or for worse. The mountain (like her father) remains unchanged overtime. Other characters, notably her father, are connected to the mountain; they tell stories about it that shape Westover’s understanding of both the mountain and herself. By the end of the memoir, the mountain remains unmoved, but Westover’s way of looking at it has changed. Westover’s attitude toward the mountain connects to the theme of Leaving Home and Finding One’s Place in the World and The Challenge of Memory and Story.
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