#AUDIO BOOK BORN A CRIME CHAPETER 5 SKIN#

He was not allowed to play outside with all his cousins because of his skin color if he was spotted by an officer, he would immediately be taken. Just like how it was mention in the last chapter, Trevor lived around constant state of riot at a young age. “Playing in my grandmother’s house, I’d hear gunshots, screams, tear gas being thrown in the crowds.” He had no choice but to be stuck with living with such burden. Not only was he born as a criminality, he was also not allowed to to be seen as a father, or have others really acknowledge that his father was a white man. It caused me and I am sure a lot of other readers to feel a sense of sympathy. Trevor’s mother was more than sure she wanted a child with a white man, even though that meant Trevor would be “born a crime.” The way the author compared himself as a proof of criminality to a proof of love struck my heart. “Where most children are proofs of their parents’ love, I was the proof of their criminality.”īecause of the laws during the apartheid, it was illegal for men and women of different color to engage in sexual activities, let alone have a child. Trevor Noah as a child with his mother hugging him from behind. It showed me his mother’s and everyone else’s’ courageousness and will to live as they did not give up on living the life they want. reading about the mother’s experience felt personal and brought me closer to seeing how life was like at that time. This shows the power of the apartheid, how many had to live with fear that they will be taken or mislabeled. Even though it was dangerous to be going to clubs and restaurants, Trevor’s mother had no fear. She was renting a room in a flat in the Hillbrow neighborhood, next-door to a Swiss man. It was a roll of dice.”īeing in that part of town, his mother had to live in discreet.

Sometimes the restaurants and clubs would get shut down, sometimes not. “Sometimes the performers and patrons would get arrested, sometimes not. His mother and him had to live in constant state of fear because Trevor, was born as a product of a black woman and a white man. Author Trevor Noah speaks on his experience living in South Africa during the apartheid.

Audio book born a crime chapeter 5