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'Finally, I said Look, Mom. I know you love Jesus, but maybe next week you could ask him to meet us at our house. Because this really wasn't a fun night. She broke out into a huge smile and started laughing. I started laughing too, and we stood there, little boy and his mom, our arms and legs covered n blood and dirt, laughing together through the pain in the light of a petrol station on the side of the road in the middle of the night.

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Noah mentions not hearing anything his mom says because he had nodded off. When I was a child, I would doze off, and anything my parents would say would become incoherent. One time, I slept in the car for four hours after we got home. My parents thought I heard them when they told me we were home, and maybe I did, but I either was asleep or fell back asleep abruptly after being woken.

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Both the black people of South Africa and the Jewish people were relocated to ghettos, forced to do labor.

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"Imagine being thrown out of an airplane. You hit the ground and break all your bones, you go to the hospital and you heal and you move on, and finally you put the whole thing behind you-and then one day somebody tells you about parachutes. That's how I felt."

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"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."

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The old ladies of the neighborhood were praying because they were worried about "the demon." My great grandma and grandma were worried about something that ended up being nothing but, they prayed about it because of how worried they were.

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"Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, and navigate the world."

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Trevor Noah talks about how he hurt his cousin and got in trouble. One time, my cousin and I were rough-playing, and we ended up hurting each other. After that, we ended up being grounded for it.

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Trevor's mom used to hang out with her dad, constantly going on different adventures. Sometimes my parents and I will just ride around and figure out an adventure to have

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"Temperance came to pick my mom up, and she happily bounded up into his car, ready to go and be with the man she loved[...] he didn't want her, either"

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"My relationship with my mom was like the relationship between a cop and a criminal in the movies"

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Trevor's mom would write him letters so they wouldn't argue as much. When I was little me and my mom would go back and fourth about the silliest things.

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"My mom was excited because she loves animals. She didn't believe in any nonsense about cats. It was just another way in which she was a rebel, refusing to conform to ideas about what black people did and didn't do"

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Trevor's pets would look out for each other, but would also fight. When I had two dogs, one was significantly older than the other, and the younger would always mess with the older one.

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"I felt a flood of emotions rushing through me. It was everything I could do not to start crying. It felt like this ten-year gap in my life closed right u in an instant, like only a day had passed since I'd last seen him."

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Trevor and his father bond over old Elvis Presley records. When my grandma died, I received many of her old records, many of them by Elvis. So when I miss her, I just listen to the old records.

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Trevor's bullies throw berries at him to get him to go away. When my cousin and I were younger, we would throw berries and nuts at each other to play around.

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"Then there was the strangest moment where it flipped. I caught a glimpse of the look of terror in the boy's face and I realized that Abel had gone past getting revenge for me."

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"She said it so matter-of-factly that I had no idea how to process it."

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Noah is very naive about love and is peer pressured into asking someone out. many people fall to peer pressure due to being naive

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"Well, we do need to be saved--saved from you, but that's beside the point, so let's give this Jesus thing a shot."

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She was always at some club, some party. dancing, meeting people.

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"--Hippos, we called them---"

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"Most people marry because they want to control another,[...], and he never wanted to be controlled

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"Fufi was mine. Fufi was beautiful"

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"Fufi was dumb as shit. at least we always that she was dum as shit."

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"is it possible for time to actually stop"

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sometimes the clubs andrestaurants would get shut down and sometimes not. sometimes the performer and patrons would get arested sometimes not

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"she was always out at some club some party dancing, meeting peopel"

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"Daddy! daddy! Daddy!"

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"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."

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Through food humans are able to bypass social groups. No matter where you are, if there is good food, then you can get people to come as a collective no matter what group they are.

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"Ten words that might have changed my life if I'd had the courage to say them."

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Noah has his first love ( apart from Fufi ) the lesson that we can all learn from this is that we miss all the shots you don't take. don't wait because you are too nervous, you have to just act on your feelings and to take the chance.

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"One of those friends where you start hanging out and from that day forward you're never apart"

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Trevor had a friend where he would cut up with and get into all sorts of trouble. He andTrevor shoplifted and got caught. My lifelong best friend accidently stole a juicebox and he was so distraught, I still make fun of him for it because he stole 50 cents worth of goods.

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"I went home, and my mom squealed when I walked in the door. Ooooooh! They turned my baby bot into a pretty little girl![...] My mom did tease the shit out of me though. "

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Noah and his mom tease each other, and that is how they express their love. My family and I express our love through the same teasing

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"people love to say, give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll eat for a lifetime. What people don't say is, And it would be nice if yu gave him a fishing rod.""

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Allusion

"all my years of imagining the life of a secret agent for myself finally paid off"(Page 156)

aliteration

"Teddy and Trevor thick as thieves" (Page 153)

parallelism

"I was the terror in my family. He was the terror in his family" (Page 153)

asyndeton

"It's not a big mall but it has everything--an arcade, a cinema, restaurants, South Africa's version of target" (Page 154)

polysyndeton

"they chased and chased and we ran and ran it was awesome" (Page 155)

anaphora

"Reach in grab a chocolate and drink the whiskey reach in grab a chocolate and drink the whiskey" (Page 154)

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"They're free, they've been taught how to fish, but no one will give them a fishing rod.

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Noah talks about how grateful he is for his white friend Andrew. He wouldn't have anything if he had never met Andrew. I am very grateful for my friends. Without them, I wouldn't have anything either, in the sense that I would be a completely different person if I had never met any of them

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Trevor had a group of friends with a cool name, and thought they were respected,d and when I was younger, I had a huge friend group and we thought we were cool

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"My mom never gave me an inch. Anytime I got in trouble, it was tough love, lectures, punishment, and hiding"

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Trevor gets arrested and bases his entire perception of jail on movies. Many people base their perception of things off of media that they consumed

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"Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. "

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Trevor is so angry at Abel that he calls him without a plan. Many people do thing rashly, out of anger, and regret it later.