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"Cheetah" - "Let it Burn"
• NOTE: Citations in this Lesson Plan refer to the following version of the book: Doyle, Glennon. Untamed. The Dial Press, 2020.
• Glennon Doyle’s memoir/self-help book extols her emergence from society’s cages and her embrace of an untamed life.
• The narrative of the book is related from the author’s first-person perspective yet alternates between past and present tense.
• In the opening Prologue, titled “Cheetah,” the author describes going to a safari zoo with her wife and two daughters where a cheetah run was featured.
• The zookeeper brought out a retriever named Minnie and said that Minnie had been raised with the cheetah, Tabitha, in order to train the cheetah.
• The zookeeper released Minnie, who chased a stuffed rabbit tied to a Jeep, and then released Tabitha, the cheetah, who followed the same action.
• Tabitha was awarded a steak and the audience...
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