The book “Born a Crime” is a memoir written by Trevor Noah that mainly focuses on race and identity. He tells a manifold of stories about his childhood in apartheid South Africa, where he was born to a white father and a Black mother—an illegal situation at the time. The book explores his experiences with race, identity, and growing up in a difficult environment, all while using humor to share his journey that becomes an important part in his later life.
I am close to being a humanist because I agree with the education on society and individuals, and exchanging cultures and ideas. According to Britannica and CH 28, people during the Renaissance designed education to allow people to explore a wide range of subjects, including grammar, language, history, and the ability to control their own lives and achievements. I think that these subjects are the primary things we need to know to live in society, as well as the importance of individual achievements. We have to understand our goals and what we want to learn and achieve to be able to live a successful and happy life. Moreover, I believe that trading and sharing ideas was a very important part of how society developed as centuries passed. People recalled ideas from the past, nature, and everything around them to widen their ability of knowledge. Instead of just living in the present, it is important to look back in the past and learn from our mistakes to be a better person than who we were yesterday. Furthermore, I agree with the development of mathematics and science as well. The formulas and symbols created then are still useful these days and affect our lives today. They created more accurate maps, which played a significant role in the development to the later ages. A lot of the knowledge and concepts of the Renaissance affect us today. For example, we learn math formulas and geography that has been developed since the Renaissance. Like this, we can easily find a wide range of knowledge that can relate to Renaissance. To conclude, I think that I am a humanist because I agree with the education and development that happened during the Renaissance.
This found poem was created with the words from the story called ‘Tuesday of the Other June’ by Norma Fox Mazer. In the story, June, the protagonist, faces an external struggle with who the author refers as ‘the Other June.’ The Other June constantly bullies June and calls her names for having the same name as her, influencing the other kids in the class to give June a hard time as well. I believe that this is a man vs. man conflict because June is trying to deal with the Other June who keeps on bothering and being malicious to her just because she has the same name as her. For example, on page 3, the author explains all kinds of bullying she has gotten from the Other June and the other kids. One quote from the text would be “In the water, she swam alongside me, blowing and huffing, knocking into me. In the locker room, she stepped on my feet, pinched my arms, hid my blouse, and knotted my braids together.” This shows us as audience that the Other June is always being an extreme torment to June, both in and out of water. I took some words from this part of the passage and put it in my poem to emphasize the large amount of pain that June has received from the Other June, including the scars left by. Moreover, there is a quote from my poem saying, “just the start of Awfulday.” Here, I tried to be a little sarcastic and show that June is exhausted from all the bullying she got and how depressed she is. Furthermore, in the book, the author calls Tuesday (which is the day of swimming class) as Awfulday, so I tried to emphasize that as well. In the background, the girl represents June being miserable and melancholy due the bullies, and the pointing fingers shows how everyone is making fun of her and how every joke is on June.
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