Literary Elements (Symbol, Metaphor, Contrast, Simile, Allusion, Irony, Satire, Idiom) used to provide context for the issues and themes Trevor explores. (How does Noah’s writing style contribute to your understanding of the issues and themes he explores?)
Satire
When you pray, He stops and He takes His time and He listens, and I had subjected Him to two hours of old grannies praying when I knew that with all the pain and suffering in the world He had more important things to deal with than my shit.
Trevor's Mom uses humour to mock the system of Abel's culture. When she was expected to bow down to Abel she overdid it.
Symbol
Car - it made him what he is today, he states that every bad thing that has happened to him was from a second hand car, which contributes a lot to his identity.
Contrast
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Trevor says that there is a contrast between what a mother and what a child would do, a mother would do things for their child but, that is something that a child needs to learn
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Simile
The more time we spent at church, she reckoned, the more blessings we accrued, like a Starbucks Rewards Card.
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Irony
The irony of my life is that whenever church is involved is when shit goes wrong, like getting kidnapped by violent minibus drivers. I’d always teased my mom about that, too. “This church thing of yours, all this Jesus, what good has come of it?