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Trevor Noah always keeps the image of Soweto being a hopeful place. Everyone who lives there is hopeful that one day they'd get out. That one day they'd get a car. That one day Apartheid will be taken away. A lot of the families who live here if not all of them are not rich. They do not have a lot of money, "The story of Soweto is the story of the driveways. It's a hopeful place" (Noah, 42). Hope is a reoccurring message throughout the memoir. It reminds the reader to stay hopeful no matter the circumstance because things can always find a way to brighten up.

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Trevor Noah grew up in a country where you were judged based on your color. You could not live in the same areas as people not like you, you could not be near people not like you, and you most certainly could not have relationships with people not like you. Trevor Noah was born in a time where he himself was considered a crime. Colored people were the result of two people who were not allowed to be together by law. Trevor, was always making sure that he could fit in at school because he never knew where to go. He would shift from group to group trying to find somewhere he belonged. But with every different colored group he found himself changing, "I became a chameleon. My color didn't change, but I could change your perception of my color" (Noah, 56). Depending on the way Trevor acted he was able to appear "more white" or "more black" to certain groups of children at his school. As long as he acted the part he was able to fit in with that group.

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The main emotion that was talked about all throughout the memoir was hope. Trevor Noah and his whole community relied on home to keep themselves going. The most prominent symbol Noah mentions are the driveways in Soweto, "The story of Soweto is the story of driveways. It's a hopeful place" (Noah, 42). The driveways represent home because nobody who lives in Soweto had the money to afford a car, yet everyone had driveways. Why have a driveway without a car? Hope.

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Something that Trevor Noah talked about in his novels was the language barriers in South Africa. During Apartheid there were a lot of different tribes and a lot of different languages being spoken. Trevor Noah, at a young age, began to learn a lot of these languages because of his mother. Noah quickly learned that, "A shared language says 'We're the same.' A language barrier says 'We're different'" (Noah, 49). Trevor Noah used his knowledge of different South African languages to be able to communicate with everyone and appeal to everyone despite their race and tribe.

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In essay #6 of Trevor Noah's book, Born A Crime, he includes letters written between him and his mom. These letters were written to eachother over the course of an argument so that Trevor wasn't able to smart-talk his mother. Trevor's mom always included a line from the bible at the start of her letters, "'Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.' -Colossians 3:20" (Noah, 82). These letters show that Trevor Noah really wants us to see clearly into his childhood with his mom.

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In essay #1, Trevor Noah introduced one of his writing techniques that was continued across his work. Noah uses italics to show his thoughts. In particular, his thoughts when  running from his mother, "I'd have to think, Is it valuable? Yes. Is it breakable? Yes. Catch it, put it down, now run" (Noah, 10). This choice in Noah's writing gives the reader an inside look into his young mind when events like running from his mom.

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Trevor Noah wrote his book to make sure the reader would understand how hard it was to be a colored person in South Africa during apartheid. It was a full-blown identity crisis. Trevor Noah grew up not knowing where he fit in, with the white kids, with the black kids, with the colored kids, because wherever he went he was treated differently. Trevor believes that it is everyone's duty to themselves to find who they are regardless of the color of their skin. That is the deeper connection the the story. It may be a memoir about Trevor's life, but it is silently telling people that the color of your skin doesn't mean that you automatically know who you are.

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Trevor Noah's mom was an astronomical influence in his life. she taught him that hard work can get you anywhere. She taught him that being set in your ways and being stubborn makes people move for you. She believes that you shouldn't change your life just to make others happy. She also wanted what's best for her kids. Even if that meant throwing them out of a moving car, "I was too confused and too angry about getting thrown out of the car to realize what had just happened. My mother had saved my life" (Noah, 17). Trevor took a while to realize how much his mom really did for him and how much she cared behind all of the hidings and scoldings. However, no matter how much she punished Trevor, it made him stronger, a better runner, and a better person.

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Trevor Noah's mom was a huge influence on his life and how he lived it. In his words she taught him, "to challenge authority and question the system" (Noah, 88). Trevor's mom taught him from a young age that authority is not always right. That authority can be questioned and that no matter what authority says Trevor should do whatever he feels was right.

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In the beginning of the memoir, Trevor Noah shows the reader how hard life is being associated with different tribes in the midst of Apartheid in South Africa. His family was Xhosa. His mom was judged based on the stereotype of Xhosa women, " 'Oh, you're a Xhosa,' he said. 'That explains it. Climbing into strange men's cars. Disgusting woman' " (Noah, 15). This Zulu man driving a minibus put Trevor, his mom, and his brother in danger all because she was a Xhosa woman and was stereotyped into the fact that she was getting in a unknown man's car for a ride.

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Living in Soweto, Trevor Noah was very shut out from the rest of the world. He didn't know what was possible. When it became time for him to think of what he wanted to accomplish in life he didn't know. He didn't have a dream, "We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited" (Noah 73). Because of how Trevor Noah was raised he didn't know the possibilities of the world. Or the possibilities of what he could become.

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Trevor Noah never had a true father-figure in the house at all times during his childhood. This was mainly because it was illegal for his real father to be his father at the time. The only male-figure that was somewhat in his life was his grandfather. however, His grandfather was still around, "...who was a force to be reckoned with. He was divorced from my grandmother and didn't live with us, but he was around" (Noah, 35). His grandfather wasn't around enough to be considered the permanent male-figure in Trevor's life.

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Trevor Noah lived his life with no regrets. He doesn't regret where he came from. Where he got to where he is today. In a small blurb Noah explains, "We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to" (Noah, 143). This advice is something that everyone needs to hear in their lives. We should take risks because the worst that could happen is something doesn't work out.

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In his article Zinsser Mentions that good memoirs go through all the motions. They touch on, "...loss, grief, illness, addiction, disappointment, failure..." (Zinsser, 2). Trevor Noah touches on almost all of these hardships. Through living in Soweto. Through how he was the only colored person in his schools. Through everything he went through.

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A piece of advice that Zinsser gives to the reader of his article is, "Your biggest stories will often have less to do with their significance - not what you did in a certain situation, but how that situation affected you and shaped the person you became" (Zinsser, 7). This advice informs the reader that they should be talking about how they overcame obstacles in their life to get to where they are today. The author should be doing this instead of just writing a narrative.