Trevor Noah, Born A Crimes talks about a hilarious story about Trevor, a colored kids growing up story, from problems to solving them, l made my notebook pages about this book;
Topics and central ideas; location: Trevor noah is born in a place where 90 percent of the population is black, but he is mixed, which is illegal, so everywhere the neighborhoods kids does not want to play with Trevor because of his race, they think he is white. He also did not make friends in his old schools their because everyone is rather white or black, not colored, which made him feel left out.
Family; Trevors family supported him a long way through his life. His mother saved him out of a moving gang car, also sharing hilarious stories about his grandmothers. His father still remains a mystery for us, he rarely goes to visit him and does not write so much. But surely hey definitly helped him get through the cruel world hes been in.
One of my most highlighted pages must be the POV and Voice analysis page. It is also about our audio project we did, about perspectives in Trevor Noahs “Born A Crime” but l think this was more fun because l get to learned a lot of details which i skipped when l was skimming through pages. It made me go back to search for hilarious details which leaded to a totally different story. I wrote quotes such as Trever getting thrown off a bus and how he got in trouble from the gang in the car. I also wanted to write alot more but i did not have room. I also wrote how the neighborhood kids viewed trevor as white not as colored or black, which made trevor feel left out. This part also quotes to the overal book of Trevors life, and with his mothers relationship. I wanted to quote how Trevor got in trouble because of the party he had with his friend Hitler which the people from other cultures felt offended.
I also highlighted the efferent information part of my notebook, it introduces the facts and cultures in detail, which trevor grew up in, it introduces a variable of background information about the how everything happened with the zulu warriors and Apartheid starting, then comes Trevor noah. This is important since it gives us informations about what kind of environment Trevor was born in, and the religion behind it.
I was interested into getting to know Trevors life more, l researched about who he was and what he did in his life, why he became a writer. It cured all of my questions which i was dying to know. I learned that Trevor wrote his books to shed lights on his childhood, to introduce him to other kids. He is also born colored, which means his dad his white and him mom is black which is an illegal marriage. We already notices how funny the book is right? Well Trevor Noah is also a comedian who does stand up comedies, you could listen to his story and burst into laughter.
Lastly I highlighted my settings in notebooks. The books does not describe the settings very often, sometimes once in three chapters which was challenging for me to find. but in the end i found a few setting descriptions which made sense. first is intro to the american culture to south african places, how American culture became important in south africa, which was is chapter 1. Second is the population settings in Soweto, how the population of black are 90% and white are 10, though colored are super rare. More about introducing to Trevors new schools, he transfered alot of schools so the setting desription of them were interesting showing how his school were all different.
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