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- - - - "I tried to help him out a bit. I told him my trick of putting off your biding his time" We can see that Trevor tries to help people's and that he doesn't just think about his self.
    - - "Thanks to my long walks to school, I was late every single day"
        
        It was Trevors obligation to go to school every day, even tho he can miss school, he still goes.
  - - - "I created my own strange little world. I did it out of necessity. I needed a way to fit in. I also needed money, a way to buy the same snacks and do the things that the other kids were doing." This quotes shows the personality of Trevor and he needed to imagine his own little
    - - "I don't regret anything I've ever done in my life, any choice that I've made."
        
        This is a clear quote to to explain his transformation of his personality and awknoledging his mistakes and don't regret them is a big mistake of his development from years prior.
  - - - "My child, you must look on the bright side." "What? What are you talking about, the bright side'? Mom, you were shot in the face. there is no bright side." "Of course there is. Now you're officially the best looking person in the family." She broke out in a hug smile and started laughing. Through my tears, I started."
        
        This quote, helps the reader to see how much <trevor has matured, and after the incident with patricia, the joy that she creates is passed on to Trevor, and that Trevor is just happy that his mother survived.
    - - "The animosity I felt from the colored people I encountered growing up was one of the hardest things I've ever had to deal with" This quotes shows maturity because he used something hard to make him a real men which not everybody can do.
    - - I felt a flood of emotions rushing through me. It was everything I could do not to start crying.
        
        This a moment in Trevor's upbringing, where he reunites with his father and talks about his achievements and how his dad was following them. It was a proud dad and a happy son.
- - - - Beliefs
        
        Page 43 Chapter 3
        
        "I think God made humans shit in the way we do because it brings us back down to earth and give us humility" Even if this is kind of a joke they still believe in gods and even makes theory about him even if there are not the best theories in terms of knowledge and vocabulary.
        
        Page 6 Chapter 1
        
        "The reason we went to three churches was because my mom said each church gave her something different. " This quote shows that they had differences belief from anyone because they were going to three different churches which mean that Trevor education was also different.
        
        Page 26 Chapter 2
        
        "I'm catholic, he said. We don't do such things" There quotes refers to the catholic belief because someone asked if she can have some sperm from him to have her own baby but like he is catholic this goes against the religion.
    - - Education
        
        Page 78 Chapter 6
        
        "My mother used to tell me, I chose to have you because I wanted something to love and something that would love me unconditionally" With someone who loves you and teach you how life works you will have a great education.
        
        Page 67 Chapter 5
        
        "The names Xhosa families give their children always have a meaning, and that meaning has a way of becoming self-fulfilling" It is a clear example of education because depending on your name you will be raised by your parent to be the exact meaning of your name.
        
        Page 27 Chapter 2
        
        "Where most children are proof of their parents' love, I was the proof of their criminality. The only time I could be with my father was indoors" In this quote we can also see that the education that he received from his father that was none reflected on him over time and some people even thought that he was a criminal.
    - - Stereotype
        
        Page 55 chapter 5
        
        On page 55 Noah discusses how he learned to adapt his behavior and language based on the racial group he was with, illustrating the complex nature of identity and the stereotypes attached to different races in South Africa
        
        Page 188 Chapter 15
        
        "People were surprised to see me because I was not what they expected " This shows stereotype against Jewish identity and race.
        
        Page 120 Chapter 9
        
        "For centuries colored people were told blacks are monkeys." This is a clearly example of a stereotype against colored people.
        
        Page 229 Chapter 17
        
        "Do you know why I pulled you over - Because you're a policeman and I'm a black person? - That's correct. License and registration, please" This shows stereotype because as he was a black person then the policeman decided to arrest him just because he thought he was dangerous.
- - - - Interpretation
        
        chapter 17
        
        “I know you see me as some crazy old bitch nagging at you,” she said, “but you forget the reason I ride you so hard and give you so much shit is because I love you. Everything I have ever done I've done from a place of love. If I don't punish you, the world will punish you even worse. The world doesn't love you. If the police get you, the police don't love you. When I beat you, I'm trying to save you. When they beat you, they're trying to kill you.”
        
        This quote can relate to young adults, and help them realize the reason why each and every teens other is sometimes strict, it is to form someone who can be responsible when they grow up.
        
        page 140-141, Chapter 11
        
        "As the outsider, you can retreat into a shell, be anonymous, be invisible. Or you can go the other way. You protect yourself by opening up. You don't ask to be accepted for everything you are, just the one part of yourself that you're willing to share. For me it was humor. I learned that even though I didn't belong to one group, I could be a part of any group that was laughing. I'd drop in, pass out the snacks, tell a few jokes. I'd perform for them. I'd catch a bit of their conversation, learn more about their group, and then leave. I never overstayed my welcome. I wasn't popular, but I wasn't an outcast. I was everywhere with everybody, and at the same time I was all by myself."
        
        This quote is very helpful for young readers because each and every teenager may find difficult finding their identity and Trevor makes a good example with one of his anecdotes on his upbringing.
        
        page 40-41, chapter 3
        
        "There is something magical about Soweto. Yes, it was a prison designed by our oppressors, but it also gave us a sense of self-determination and control. Soweto was ours. It had an aspirational quality that you don't find elsewhere. In America the dream is to make it out of the ghetto. In Soweto, because there was no leaving the ghetto, the dream was to transform the ghetto.
        For the million people who lived in Soweto, there were no stores, no bars, no restaurants. There were no paved roads, minimal electricity, inadequate sewerage. But when you put one million people together in one place, they find a way to make a life for themselves. A black-market economy rose up, with every type of business being run out of someone's house: auto mechanics, day cafe, guys selling refurbished tires."
        
        This quote is interpreted as the level of poorness, that Trevor used to live in Soweto, and it was hard for the people to open up real stores, so they had to open their shops in their own home, and it can be interpretated with the apartheid, and its influence on black people.
    - - Trevor Noah
        
        page 56, chapter 4
        
        "I became a chameleon."
        
        This can be intrepretated in many ways, Trevor when he was little, thought of himself to be a chameleon, to hide from al the racism, from bullies, even to hide from his house. But, it can also portray the he was transparent with everything, and that he had no problem with anything.
        
        Chapter 18
        
        "I grew up in a world of violence, but I myself was never violent at all. Yes, I played pranks and set fires and broke windows, but I never attacked people. I never hit anyone. I was never angry. I just didn't see myself that way. My mother had exposed me to a different world than the one she grew up in. She bought me the books she never got to read. She took me to the schools that she never got to go to. I immersed myself in those worlds and I came back looking at the world a different way. I saw that not all families are violent. I saw the futility of violence, the cycle that just repeats itself, the damage that's inflicted on people that they in turn inflict on others.
        I saw, more than anything, that relationships are not sustained by violence but by love. Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that for me, and with the progress I made and the things I learned, I came back and created a new world and a new understanding for her. After that, she never raised her hand to her children again. Unfortunately, by the time she stopped, Abel had started."
        
        This is a good example on how Trevor's mom, Patricia helped Noah form his character and personality, with good traits.
        
        Chapter 16
        
        "It's easy to be judgmental about crime when you live in a world wealthy enough to be removed from it. But the hood taught me that everyone has different notions of right and wrong, different definitions of what constitutes crime, and what level of crime they're willing to participate in."
        
        Trevor, by living in Soweto, he learned to see the right and wrong in things. He uses a great example on crime, that he knows the difference on different crimes, and "what crime they're willing to participate in"
        
        page 54, chapter 4
        
        "As a kid I understood that people were different colors, but in my head white and black and brown were like types of chocolate. Dad was the white chocolate, mom was the dark chocolate, and I was the milk chocolate. But we were all just chocolate. I didn't know any of it had anything to do with “race.” I didn't know what race was. My mother never referred to my dad as white or to me as mixed. So when the other kids in Soweto called me “white,” even though I was light brown, I just thought they had their colors mixed up, like they hadn't learned them properly. “Ah, yes, my friend. You've confused aqua with turquoise. I can see how you made that mistake. You're not the first.”
        
        This quote helps Trevor to realize that it was ok to be a mixed child, that no matter what race you are, you are the one who chooses what and how you wanna be.
        
        page 66, chapter 5
        
        "When it was time to pick my name, she chose Trevor, a name with no meaning whatsoever in South Africa, no precedent in my family. It's not even a Biblical name. It's just a name. My mother wanted her child beholden to no fate. She wanted me to be free to go anywhere, do anything, be anyone."
        
        This quote explains how the name Trevor came up, and why it was chosen. It was chosen, because it represents the in-between races and doesn't fit in Black or white community.
    - - Society
        
        page 196, chapter 15
        
        "There is also this to consider: The name Hitler does not offend a black South African because Hitler is not the worst thing a black South African can imagine. Every country thinks their history is the most important, and that's especially true in the West. But if black South Africans could go back in time and kill one Person, Cecil Rhodes would come up before Hitler. If people in the Congo could go back in time and kill one person, Belgium's King Leopold would come way before Hitler. If Native Americans could go back in time and kill one person, it would probably be Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson."
        
        It's a reference to the Black community, and what they have been through. This quote speaks the truth, because it talks about people that have affected lives and their ancestors
        
        chapter 16
        
        "In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don't see the person it affects. We don't see their face. We don't see them as people. Which was the whole reason the hood was built in the first place, to keep the victims of apartheid out of sight and out of mind. Because if white people ever saw black people as human, they would see that slavery is unconscionable. We live in a world where we don’t see the ramifications of what we do to others, because we don't live with them. It would be a whole lot harder for an investment banker to rip off people with subprime mortgages if he actually had to live with the people he was ripping off. If we could see one another's pain and empathize with one another, it would never be worth it to us to commit the crimes in the first place."
        
        This is a harsh truth presented by Noah, because it still happens, it doesn't matter if the apartheid has ended, racism is still around