Section A:

Today I will be talking about the book ‘Born a Crime’ by Trevor Noah. So, the novel talks about
the author, a comedian, television personality, Trevor Noah living as an oppressed person, and
his experiences in South Africa during the apartheid. So, my thesis is ‘How does Trevor Noah’s
identity affect him in making friends?’ And I will be using extract B

So, in this extract, it talks about Trevor and Patricia, his mom moving to a new area with only full
of white people. And in a way, it actually affects him in him like fitting in as a mixed person.
The tone of this extract is mostly humour and he also uses this throughout his whole book. This
helps to bring the reader a sense of detail of where he lives in, and his personality while living in
apartheid, but at the same time, showing how dysfunctional South Africa was back then, like in
the quality that they were living in.

In line 13, the author uses metaphor to say that Trevor was special where he used to live in,
which is in Eden Park. But then later on, he was the only ‘white’ kid in the black township,
indicating that he was the ‘odd one out’ from his neighbourhood, and he did not really feel like
he fit in. So this affects the main theme, identity, that living as a mixed coloured person, he finds
struggles in trying fit in with other people because he’s not one specific colour, but he’s like a
mix between the both. So when moving to Soweto, his new town, he just feels like he’s the only
‘white’ kid in the black township, but in reality, he’s the only ‘black’ kid in a white neighbour area.

In line 14-15, he also shares a bit about himself saying how he has an easier time making
friends in Eden Park, and while that he didn’t make any friends in High Lands due to the people
there fear of black crimes in line 16. This shows that there's a strong inequality and a strong like
him being unable to fit in because of like black people did not really want black people and white
people to be together, or to be close together, so he did not make any friends back then.

However, both places still run down to one thing: him struggling to fit in because of his skin.
Also, in line 23-24, the author uses allusion to illustrate that Trevor has no friends, and he
compared himself to Peeping Tom, like he just peeps over to see people having fun while a kid
cannot have fun all because of his skin colour. It also shows how much he really wants to make
friends, and he just did not care much about the skin colour, but it was only the environment that
he was in, the community that he was in that affected the way that he tried to fit in, and him
peeping through just shows that he really wants to make friends.

This also goes back to the thesis, ‘How Trevor’s skin colour affects him in making friends?’ And
it shows that even if he wants to make friends, he cannot.