Stranger than Fiction

A perspective map showing trevor’s perspective. This is affected by events throughout his life.

A summary of my view on the author’s purpose. This is supported by multiple evidence from the story.

A page on fantastic leads written by the author that I would like to use. This would be useful in future writing tasks.

Notes about power that shows shows sources of power. This would be useful since there is so much power in books.

It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime is a autobiography written by Trevor Noah, a comedian and author. The book mainly focuses on talking about the racism of Apartheid in South Africa.

Some central ideas and themes of the book are: Racism and Family Love.

We can see racism from multiple places, like how Trevor states multiple times that Apartheid, supported by the government, has power to relocate and put people into groups and those groups at different social places. An example of this is how Trevor’s parent’t marrige is considered illegal just because of their different races. So to prevent more of this kind of negative childhood, he advocates for Anti-Racism in this book.

We can see family love from his grandmother and mother, and even his father. His mother cared for him, we can see from the start that she threw him out of the car before herself, so that shows that she cares for Trevor more than herself. Then her grandmother, which they had a far relationship, but her grandmother always took him in the house, and argued with his mom on things she thought was better for Trevor. His father appears further in the book, he still remembered what food Trevor likes, and had every one of Trevor’s albums.

Infographic: Renaissance-Humanism

As the famous philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero stated, “What then is freedom?The power to live as one wishes.” I believe that people have infinite potential in creativity, so they should be able to control and create their own way for their lives.

Humanism consists of Freedom, Ethics,  Self-Acceptance, and Rationality. I personally think I have all of them. Above I stated how I believe in freedom for choice of human beings. For Ethics, I believe each person has their rights and other people should respect that. For Self-Acceptance, humanists believe we are all good at the core. I believe that, because at most times others believe I make the right choices and chose the right path when I am not influenced by so called “Deviations” according to Roman philosophers. As for Rationality, I believe in the living world rather than wishing for a good afterlife, I try to maximize the amount of happiness I get in the living life.

Therefore, I believe I am a complete humanist from the Reasoning above.

 

Citation:

Kendra Cherry, MSEd. “How Humanistic Theories Are Used in Psychology.” Verywell Mind, Verywell Mind, 16 July 2024, www.verywellmind.com/what-is-humanistic-psychology-2795242#toc-a-brief-background-of-humanistic-psychology.

Blackout Poem: My Side of the Story

“My Side of the Story”

By Adam Bagdasarian
The conflict in the story is external of the protagonist and is conflict with another character, his dad.
The author shows this conflict through a series of speech made by the main character and the father:
(Paragraph 27) “You came running in here without knocking because Skip put Scotch tape on your head?”
“No, I—”
“You didn’t care that the door was closed? You didn’t care that your mother might have been sleeping?”
The text above shows how the father doesn’t see sibling disagreements as a problem and sees going in uninvited more of a problem. The author also shows how when the father was raging, he couldn’t listen in on anything and was stubborn on his own opinion by writing a description of what was happening,
(Paragraph 31) “Is that what you do? You run into rooms screaming?” He was on his feet now and advancing
toward me. “You don’t knock?”
“No. Yes.”
At this point my brother entered the room, saw what was happening, and stood transfixed.
The above text describes the father, but does not link to the title, My Side of the Story. The author included some important quotations to express how his side of the story was not brought to justice. This is shown by the author at the end of the story, paragraph 47, “Obviously, when I burst into my
mother’s room, I had entered a larger world of justice, a world where screaming, whining,
mother dependence, not knocking on closed doors, and startling one’s father were serious
crimes. That part I understood. The part I didn’t understand was the part about why my
brother, who had started the whole thing by putting Scotch tape on my head, hadn’t been
punished.”
The author links the conflict to the title of the story by using the father as a metaphor for the larger world, where justice is not always seen, and his mother, described in paragraph 9 as, “It had lovely brown hair, a warm enchanting smile, and a soft, understanding voice.” Looking at the title of the story, we can see that his side of the story, where he went for the “Smaller justice” (Paragraph 47) but accidentally faced the “Bigger justice” Therefore not getting what he wanted.
My Poem shows the concept of the conflict by showing how the conflict was introduced and then how eventually the story reached the climax, where the father started yelling at the protagonist, and then after the falling action, the main character realizes how he “Steps into a larger world of justice.”

App Design – Work in Progress

This is the process journal for my project. It will be updated each class.