“Trevor Noah” by Trevor Noah is a autobiography about a “colored” child living in South Africa during and after apartheid.

Trevor Noah is a South African comedian and television host, best known for his role on “The Daily Show.” He grew up in a mixed-race family during apartheid in South Africa, which shaped his views on race and culture. In addition to comedy, he is an author, and his book “Born a Crime” tells stories from his childhood and the challenges he faced.

Central Ideas:

Racism and Injustice:

As a colored child Trevor experienced many racism growing up. In parts of the book you will find many injustice and criticism towards in apartheid system. For example in chapter 14, Trevor found the problem in the phrase “Give a man a fish” he stated that “talent alone would have gotten me nowhere, without Andrew(the privileged) giving me the cd writer(resource).-133” Also, Trevor  talked about the “Black Tax” which is a concept that racism/ poverty is generational. Through humorous stories Trevor explained many injustice of the apartheid system and South Africa.

Resourceful and education:

In this book Trevor explained many stories of Trevor and his mom. In chapter 5, Trevor explained the power of education with the fact that she had a better life because she learned english and became a secretary. Through out the book Trevor always valued the power of resources like education/ personal strength. An example of personal strength can be found in part 3. Trevor was one of the most poor kids in Sandringham High. He was also the fastest, he used this to earn some extra money.

Power page 10: This page is the notes I toke on the lesson we had together as a class. I wrote down the key ideas in the video and added some of my own interpretation on the concept.

POV and Voice Analysis page 14: This page shows my understanding of the perspective in the book and how I came up with my analysis of Trevor’s POV.

Efferent and Aesthetic page 8 & 9: This page/ lesson shows my ability of taking notes analysis on both written and spoken text.

Extension (pink page): Page on analysis of Mom’s personality, affect on Trevor and influences. Also I added my own understanding of how some parts of the book is connected to current events

Extension (guest speaker): This page show mainly my notes when the guest speaker came. In addition it shows questions I had related to the book and small notes that connect the speeches with “Trevor Noah”