iii. As Tara becomes a teenager, she becomes very concerned about etiquette and becoming “the wrong kind of girl”. When it comes to womanhood, she is scared that she doesn’t know right from wrong because no one ever taught her beyond a few vague statements. She writes, “no one ever taught me the modest way to bend over, so I knew I was probably doing it the bad way” (114). These feelings are compounded when her brother and father call her a “whore” for putting on makeup (114) or rolling up the sleeves of her t-shirt on a blistering hot day at work in the junkyard (136). The Westover view on…