Throughout the book, Westover refers back to journals she kept while growing up. Sometimes, she recorded events as they really felt, but many times, she says she presented events as less traumatic than they really were, or used “vague, shadowy language” to obscure how she’d been hurt. How do these journals inform the book?

These journals that Tara Westover kept informed the book by providing additional insight into her family life.

Explanation:

'Educated' is a memoir written by Tara Westover. The book talks about the struglges that she went through in a sceptical family, with twisted beliefs.

In her book, she has informed the readers that she kept journals while growing up. These journals helped to provide more insight in her life. Though many times she has mentioned the incidents clearly, but other times she is vague in her explaining the incidents in her family, for example, how they managed to get medical treatment when met with severe accidents.

i think it may be b, i'm not exactly too sure on this. but b seems to make more sense.