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This chapter is about Patricia Noah's life. She went through a lot, having to raise children on her own. This chapter, more specifically, focuses on her life after she gets remarried to Abel. Not only was Abel controlling, but he hits Patricia and even shoots her in her head in the book. The impact on Trevor Noah and his mother must have been detrimental since she could have been murdered. Since this book is from Trevor Noah's viewpoint, we hear about how his young self felt having to watch his mom go through this abuse and how he could not do anything about it. Due to Abel's aspirations for his car shop business and because he was a poor businessman, Trevor Noah was forced to sleep in the car and also use a custodian-type sink as a bathroom.

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"'He’s [Abel] like an exotic bird collector,' she said. 'He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.'” (Noah 253)

We chose this quote because it shows that Patricia saw her abusive husband's drive to control her and keep her from being her free self.

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“No, no. Ma’am. Why do you wanna make a case, eh? You sure you want to do this? Go home and talk to your husband. You do know once you lay charges you can’t take them back? He’ll have a criminal record. His life will never be the same." (Noah  256)

We chose this quote because it shows the sexism Patricia experienced and how her voice was silenced while she and Trevor were being abused by Abel.

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Inevitably: What someone would expect; predictably.
"Inevitably Abel would get behind schedule on a car, and since he was our ride, we’d have to wait for him to finish before we could go home."

Hemorrhaging: spending in large amounts in an apparently disorderly or uncontrollable fashion.
"But eventually I started to see why the business was hemorrhaging money."

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In this chapter, we observed themes including, domestic violence, apologies, sexism, and neglect. The themes depict how Trevor Noah and his mother were unaware of the sexism and abuse that is normalized in society. His mother was a very strong woman and fought back against her abusive husband but even the police denied her help.

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The chapter also explores the idea of giving yourself to another only to be betrayed. I wonder how this experience of neglect and abuse that Trevor and his mom went through affected them.

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This chapter answers our essential question, "How does the environment affect me" because we can see how the things Trevor Noah experienced with having an abusive stepfather really changed his viewpoint on the world. On pages 256 and 257, Patricia Noah goes to the police the first time Abel hits her and when she gets there, the police completely takes Abel's side and shows no consideration of what she is saying. At this point of the chapter, Trevor explains how his view of the police, who he thought was supposed to protect people, completely changed. This is why we think chapter 18 of "Born a Crime" correlates with the essential question, "How does the environment affect me?" This is because Trevor Noah is clearly affected by the bad environment he was in.