In the Mormon religion, like shown in the book, women have a role as wives to be controlled, obedient, and silent. For Tara, where her life moral brought down from generation to generation by her family, she grew to become a girl who was silent, couldn’t act on her own ideas, and had no thoughts of her own. With a very closed off mindset, there was no equality between the genders it was simply a man (and his wife). Tara’s mother shows this in the book when she expresses no opinion about Tara wanting to go to school and her father completely disagreeing based of the mindset they live with of…