“Born A Crime”  by Trevor Noah is a book about the childhood of a comedian in the US, Trevor Noah. This book mostly revolves around his identity, and how his racial anomaly during apartheid, being a biracial male. This book is written in a humorous way, and it sure will be a fun read.

I chose the theme of finding your place, because I found that Trevor is embracing his racial circumstances, and is making the most out of it, as well as Trevor’s mom, Patricia. She was even more stubborn and defiant, constantly defying racist laws and being the only black person is places like church, and there was an overall essence of ‘fitting in’ or doing what you like to find a place in the world.

The central idea of the book is about race and racism, but not exactly racism in a brutal way. In a contemporary fiction book I read quite some time ago, the character was in very direct disadvantage in the racial pyramid, but not in this book. It shows the racial separation very often as the book happens in the period of apartheid where races were separated by law, and how he navigated his passage in life with his peculiar racial status, as there were tons of segments that made me think, the story would be much different if Trevor, or someone else was a different race.

Trevor and Patricia has shared some different perspectives on the same topic, as Patricia was not able to obtain many of the assets Trevor owns in his childhood, and has lived vastly different lives, and has different beliefs, and has different thought processing in the same event such as a car breaking down when trying to head to church. Trevor thinks it as Jesus wanting us to take a break, but Patricia thinks it as Jesus testing our faith

The last paragraph shows the views of the system of apartheid, and some characters in this book. I also think breaking laws are normalized here, which perhaps could be the reason why Trevor and his friends lived such a dynamic life. I had some different view on some events than the book characters, such as witchcraft and forming a giant congregation to take out the witch, which was just Trevor.

I am making an app for a client, Below is my process journal for this experience. Follow along and see how I create it.