The book, “It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime”, is a autobiography written by the famous South African comedian – Trevor Noah. The book reveals the unusual childhood of Trevor Noah and also addresses many problems of South Africa, such as racism and apartheid. The book is written in a humorous tone that entertains the audience, and each chapter is a independent story about his childhood. Some of the central ideas including the harm and separation from racism (and trying to prevent them), resilience, identity (since Trevor Noah is half white and half black, so his identity is unclear). I want to extend on identity – since Trevor Noah is a mix, he kept having problems of which group he should belong in. For example, he got into the first class, but it’s all White people, which he doesn’t feel belong to. Therefore, he went to second class, since he felt more belonged with his Black friends. This can demonstrate that identity and how “I” identify myself is a big theme in this book.
The pictures of my NB are very blurry, so I will also include a PDF link if you want to look at it closer.
Rewrite a passage from a different POV (Extension)
The task for this page is to write a scene from a different POV against Trevor Noah. I chose the part where Trevor was asking the other kid for Fufi (or Spotty). I tried to imagine the perspective from the kid, which he might also think that Fufi is his dog and Trevor stole it. I also matched some descriptions and dialogues in the story to make it match the scene. The good thing about this page is that the passage I wrote is reasonable and matches the original story.
On this page, our goal was to find some efferent places (places that gives real facts and information) and aesthetic parts (parts that provide beauty and feeling of something). I chose parts from various parts of the book, but it’s mostly in the first two chapters. The good part about this is that I chose dialogues that can strongly express the efferent and aesthetic parts, and has really nice descriptions and vocabularies.
In this lesson, we’re supposed to find the definitions of the words being provided in the lesson video (which is adjective, figurative language, adverb, sensory details, topic-specific vocabulary), and then find sentences that is describing something/someone while using very fancy languages. The good thing about this page is that I organized my page into two parts, which is very easy to identify different parts. Also, I found really nice vocabularies in the chapter. I also gave examples of the different vocabularies we did, which will further help my vocab study. The dialogues I found will also help me with my further writing which I could use to make my writing fancier.
In this page, we’re suppose to analyse the POV and voice of the story, which we can further even write the benefits about the POV and voice the author used. It reflects the whole book, which the whole story used similar POV, but the voice might change. The good thing about this page is that I analysed the whole thing very closely, and tried to find the deeper meaning and benefits of this use of POV and voice. This will further help my decision of use of POV and tone.
In this page, we’re told to introduce the author – Trevor Noah. We also need to include a picture of Trevor Noah. The good thing about this page is that I tried to draw a realistic drawing of Trevor Noah (though I didn’t draw too well). Also, I did extra research online using Wikipedia, and found about his whole life and the reason he wrote ‘Born a Crime’. I also found details of his life like his family and also his DOB, education, nationality and so on.
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