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Richard Westover
One of Tara’s older brothers. Luke’s most memorable story in the memoir occurs when he sustains an accident at the scrap yard—one of his legs catches fire, and he sustains horrible burns that debilitate him for weeks. When Mother’s salves heal Luke—without the intervention of pain medicine, doctors, or hospitals—Mother and Dad raise Luke up as an example of Mother’s strengths as an herbalist, and as the power of God’s will to rescue the truly devout from pain, infection, and even death.
Luke Westover Quotes in Educated
The Educated quotes below are all either spoken by Luke Westover or refer to Luke Westover. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 7
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Since the writing of [the story of Luke’s burn,] I have spoken to Luke about the incident. His account differs from both mine and Richard’s. In Luke’s memory, Dad took Luke to the house, administered a homeopathic for shock, then put him in a tub of cold water, where he left him to go fight the fire. This goes against my memory, and against Richard’s. Still, perhaps our memories are in error. Perhaps I found Luke in a tub, alone, rather than on the grass. What everyone agrees upon, strangely, is that somehow Luke ended up on the front lawn, his leg in a garbage can.
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Luke Westover Quotes in Educated
The Educated quotes below are all either spoken by Luke Westover or refer to Luke Westover. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 7
Quotes
Since the writing of [the story of Luke’s burn,] I have spoken to Luke about the incident. His account differs from both mine and Richard’s. In Luke’s memory, Dad took Luke to the house, administered a homeopathic for shock, then put him in a tub of cold water, where he left him to go fight the fire. This goes against my memory, and against Richard’s. Still, perhaps our memories are in error. Perhaps I found Luke in a tub, alone, rather than on the grass. What everyone agrees upon, strangely, is that somehow Luke ended up on the front lawn, his leg in a garbage can.
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