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In the critical literacy book, Untamed, by Glennon Doyle, a fifty year old woman, realizes how she can enjoy life better and the steps along the way, in Florida with her wife and three kids. As the book begins Glennon sees how her family realized how cheetahs in the zoo miss the wild yet they never knew the wild, Glennon notices this and it feels like her life too. While Glennon notices everything wrong with her life she realizes she wants a change. Glennons life changing started when she was sitting on her bathroom floor with a positive pregnancy test, she says to herself I want to change my life around. She later realized that no matter what she did she was never enough for everyone so she started trying to be enough for herself. One of …show more content…

Throughout the book Glennon explains how as a child and as she grew up she had this ideal woman and future pictures and she thought she had to meet that. “ When I was in my twenties, I believed that somewhere there existed a perfect human woman. She was beautiful, unbloated, clear skinned, fluffy haired, fearless, lucky in love, calm, and confident. Her life was easy. She haunted me like a ghost. I tried so hard to be her.” This line shows how no one told her those expectations, she saw them in magazines, tv shows, books, and she believed it. In addition she was diagnosed with bulimia at a very young age and took till she was older to realize all of what society has made for expectations or standards are unrealistic. Most people love by these standards because they think that's just the way of life but when Glennon felt what she could feel like when she met her wife Abby she noticed life could be way better. “ When I met Abby I remembered the wild.” This line shows how Glennon realized one of the reasons she felt tamed or caged was that she didn’t know that she had feelings for a girl or just thought they were wrong. Glennon realized that that's just one of many things that she wants to change but it’s hard to change things in life but one of her famous quotes, “We can do hard

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