In humanities this year, we analyzed a literary nonfiction book called It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime. It was written by Trevor Noah himself, and talks about his childhood in South Africa during their times with Apartheid: Everyone was separated by color or race, both physically and mentally. Noah, as a mixed child, was not very popular, but that also taught him the idea of resilience, independence, and identity, which are also the main themes expressed in the book.

The following pages may be blurry, but I included page numbers.

In this page, I analyzed the POV of the author. By doing this, I saw the benefits of choose that specific POV, and why it is the best choice. In this case, the book uses first person, and I wrote about the effect it had on the reader.

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In this extension, I rewrote a section of the book, but used a different POV. By doing this, I will have to delete some thoughts and add in some other thoughts (how the new POV is supposed to be like). I tried the stand on another perspective/POV and rewrote the story in another person’s shoes.

(for picture above, page 16 in booklet)

In the page on the left, I looked for the endings in the book. These were some really good ones I found, and they really act as mic-drops to the entire paragraph or chapter. I think these endings create a great summary of main idea, motifs, and theme.

In the page on the right, I wrote some facts about the author, Trevor Noah. By doing this, I can better understand the perspective I am standing in while reading the book, as there are many perspectives of seeing the issues presented in the book.