Untamed

Doyle admits that she understands life best through metaphors. Choose a metaphor Doyle uses within her memoir and analyze its meaning. How does this metaphor connect to the greater ideas within the memoir?

Analyze how Doyle chooses to organize her memoir. How is each part connected? How does each part work together to convey a larger message?

Examine Doyle’s relationship with religion. How does this relationship change throughout the course of the memoir? What role does religion play in Doyle’s life?

Discuss Doyle’s development as an activist. What leads to her growth as an activist? How do the difficulties she encounters in her journey contribute to her personal development?

Doyle structures her memoir in a series of vignettes. Choose one vignette and analyze its significance within the memoir as a whole.

Discuss how Doyle structures time in her memoir. What is the effect of this structure? How does this structure influence the memoir’s greater themes?

Doyle examines the ways in which women contribute to their own and other women’s confinement. Analyze the arguments Doyle makes for how women contribute to the confinement of themselves and other women. Do you agree or disagree with Doyle’s claims? Why or why not?

Intertextuality is the shaping of a text’s meaning through the inclusion of another text. How does Doyle use intertextuality in her memoir? How is the meaning of her memoir shaped through these moments of intertextuality?