![]() I wonder if the fact of never having felt by any group white, black, colored, was the ultimate reason why he left his country. P.120 – Behind Trevor’s humor and sharpness, it’s very sad to feel deeper his inner solitude in these chapters. – What amazed me in chapter 9 was how arbitrary the apartheid classifications could be, how for instance, for a reason or another, you could be reclassified as white, or vice versa! And how the system built enmity between the groups: That’s what apartheid did: it convinced every group that it was because of the other race that they didn’t get into the club. Anything else you found interesting or want to discuss? Why he never tells us about his friend: maybe because deep down he still feels guilty about it? 5. One of the most tragi-comic stories in the section, I think, is Chapter 13, “Colorblind.” What were some of your reactions to the story? Noah never tells us what happens to his friend–why do you think that is? It actually did not surprise me on the side of the justice: we often only see what we want to see, and we automatically block what we do not want to see.Īnd on Noah’s part, he may have shut up about it for the sake of his mother. ![]() And anyway, he was racketing anyone, he was using the greed of the other kids for his own interest, using the only strengths he had, his speed and his idea to come up with that idea. Trevor Noah: entrepreneur or hustler?Īren’t the two words synonyms, lol? I think he was probably a bit of both, which made sense for a smart kid who had finally found a way to survive and makes the best of a tough situation. I would appreciate if you could tell me how you understand this passage. I actually had a hard time understanding really what he meant by that sentence, I reread it in the context several times, in vain. Do you think this is true? How do you think that experience shaped how Noah related to the world going forward? How did you react to the actions of Abel? Award-winning comic and host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah tells the at-once moving, serious and outrageously funny story of his rebellious birth and his often chaotic coming of age in South Africa in the 1990s. In Chapter 9, “The Mulberry Tree,” Noah says that’s it’s easier to be an outsider trying to fit in than an insider who doesn’t. Born a Crime is a deeply affecting and engaging memoir with a powerful commentary on the end of apartheid and its aftermath. I spent my teenage years in studies and books, no time for dating. And I’m not your best candidate for that type of story. Sorry I didn’t take too many notes on that, I found all these stories rather sad. Which one of these was your favorite? Which the saddest? Did they remind you of any of your own teenage heartbreaks? Juicy details pls This past week was Valentine’s Day, and appropriately Part II features not one, not two, but three stories from Noah’s tragic misadventures in romance. Trevor Noah is the author of the 1 New York Times bestseller Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood and its young readers adaptation It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood, which also debuted as a New York Times bestseller. Book Bloggers International This book is so good, I’m surprised not more bloggers have joined the read-along So here are the questions proposed today on the chapters 9-14 of the book, with my answers: 1. ![]()
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