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My most meaningful window moment was in chapter 2 (Pages 22 - 25). The chapter opens to give you details over Trevor's birth (Noah 22). However contrary to how It may seem, Trevor starts to reveal his mothers life and how she learned to survive in a country of apartheid, providing a descriptive and structured perspective on the lives of most. (Noah 23-25)

My most meaningful mirror moment lie in chapter 11 (Pages 137 - 139). Trevor recalls his time in grade school (Sandringham Highschool). Trevor goes on to explain that when everyone was in the playground, many of those of different races, Black, Colored, White, Asian, Indian, would congregate in their own areas and groups (Noah 138). This was a great mirror moment as it showed how today in schools, there are still traces of separation of people due to how to look and how they stereotype others (into different groups).

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When Trevor was trying to ask his crush out but regretted not saying anything to Zaheera which is kinda what happens to most guys when they have a crush and want to say something but say nothing instead, its happened to me before. Pg 149

A window for me was when Trevor sold pirated CDs to make money which is a crime but to him it was just part of life so he could make money and here in the USA what he do would be shameful but in South Africa its their life because of Apartheid and the wealth gap. Pg 19

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Mirror: His mom was very prominent and always influencing his life. She would take him to many churches (Noah, 6), buy him books, and even write letters back and forth, sometimes disciplining him in these writings! (Noah, 82). My mom did all of these things in my life as well.

Window: The most significant window moment was reading about when Trevor's family had no money and was struggling to eat most nights. They sometimes had to resort to meat scraps meant for dogs, and actual dog bones (Noah, 72). This was something I've never experienced before in my life.

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mirror: in school Trevor didn't really try and his grades were always bad because he was always focused on something else. combining Trevor's bad grades with his bad habits he would not socially fit in with a normal job. however the bad habits and bad grades gives him material for his career. I relate to this because school isn't my strong suit and I would rather be doing anything else like Trevor.
window: trevor is extremly religious and is talked about through out the whole book.

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My most meaningful window moment is when Noah told stories of how sometimes his mother had to pretend that she wasn't his mother in public.

My most meaningful mirror moment is how Trevor would be the only child that his grandma wouldn't touch. I can relate to this because my parents would always get hit by their parents but my brothers and I never get touched.

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Mirror: The most significant mirror moment for me was when Trevor couldn't understand why his mother wouldn't leave the relationship and a similar thing is happening in my life. My Mom's best friend's daughter is currently in a relationship that I feel she would be much better if she would just leave the relationship (Noah 271).

Window: The most important window moment I felt was when Abel would come home drunk and beat the family because I have had no experience with domestic violence in my life and this opened up a whole new perspective of life with that of a victim of abuse (Noah 254-255).

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My window moment was when Trevor and his mother went to the police to file a domestic abuse report and how after Abel shot Trevor's mother he only got three years probation because an initial report was never filed. It helped to see even further how corrupt South Africa was at the time. (Noah 284)

My mirror moment was how Trevor's grandmother refused to hit him, but his parents were hit as kids, similar to how me and my cousins only got yelled at when we did something dumb.

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My most powerful window moment in the book was in the chapter about Trevor's dad, Robert. In this chapter, Trevor reunited with his dad after not being able to see or talk to him for a very long time. This was a window to me because I didn't know what it was like to be separated from someone you love for so long, and Noah's description of his meeting with his dad helped me realize this. (Noah 110)
My most powerful mirror moment occurred earlier in the book, when Trevor talked about the opportunities his mom gave him by refusing to conform to what was expected of her. I was reminded of the opportunities my parents have given me, and how thankful I am for what they have done for me. (Noah 73)

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Window: The most significant window moment in this book for me was when Trevor Noah had robbed the mall store of the chocolates filled with alcohol. He escaped but his friend didn't, and he was confronted, but not recognized as the white boy in the video tape footage. This is a significant window moment because it shows how many people are unable to see past race, its not Trevor Noah, its a white person. And then he got away scot free.

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My Window moment was when he went to the hood because I live in Johnson County and its not like anything he experienced when in the hood. Trevor has to learn how to survive with very little and in order to make a living he has to sell DVDs. (Noah 204)

My Mirror moment was when Trevor was forced to go to church even though he didn't enjoy it. When I was younger I used to hate going to church but would have to go because my parents made me. (Noah 40)

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I think my biggest mirror moment was on pages 67 and 68 where Noah was recalling his relationship with books as a child. I'm reading about this person who pretty much couldn't be more different from me, and then he starts talking about books. He talked about how he took care of them, never dog-earing the pages. He talked about his favorite genres and authors. There's this person on the opposite side of the world who looks nothing like me, who grew up nothing like me, who I share almost nothing in common with. But he loves Roald Dahl. He loves to get lost in what is impossible. He wanted to read Chronicles of Narnia. I love those. I love the strange things those brilliant people came up with. Who woulda thought.

There are a number of times over the course of Trevor Noah's story where he felt a level of fear or horror I have been blessed enough to never have experienced. The most significant one was probably pages 273 and 274 where Andrew calls to tell him his mother had been shot. I can't even begin to imagine that pain, that terror. I've never lost someone close to me like that, I pray I never have to. Even though he didn't actually end up loosing her, he thought he had. And then he didn't know what was going to happen and through all of that he said he "broke in two." I can't even begin to imagine.

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My mirror moment is on page #5 where he talks about his family being super religious and always going to church all of the time. My family is very much the same,my dad and mom are super religious and we always going to church every Sunday.

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My window moment was page #204 where he start talking about the hood. I got to see what the hood was like, things like him selling illegal CD's and that being a normal thing to see around there. It also let me see the hood from someone else's point of view

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window: A window moment for me was when Trevor and his friends would run around their neighborhood and the shops around it to cause trouble. It's a window moment for me because my friends and i were never the type to get into trouble.  (153)
Mirror: A mirror moment is when Noah was talking about not going to church, which i can relate to especially when i was younger. (8)

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window: A window moment for me was when Trevor would talk about apartheid and how it affected him because growing up, especially in the twenty-first century, nobody has to deal with it. (124)
mirror: A mirror moment for me is when Trevor said, "I wasn't whiny and spoiled. I had good manners. I was just high-energy and knew what I wanted to do" (78). I have always been somebody who knows what they want to do with their life so I have always been organized and put together.

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A mirror moment I found is when Noah talked about how his family goes to church, my family does not go to church as often but we go frequently (Noah 8).
A window moment I found is at the end when his mom gets shot twice, my mom has never been shot and I don't know what I would do if she ever got shot (Noah 280).

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Window: A window moment for me was how much moving Trevor and his mom did, as I've lived in the same house my entire life and don't know what it's like to have to get used to new surroundings and people. (Pink 69)

Mirror: A mirror moment for me was Trevor's mother and how she is very strong and supportive while being very strict with punishments, as my mom is the same way. (Pink 248

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My most meaningful mirror moment was when Trevor was having a hard time fitting in when he switched schools. I moved to a new middle school where I only knew around 4 people. (56)

My most meaningful window moment was when Trevor was talking about how his step father abused his mother. I have only seen that kind of thing in movies or read about it in books, because my parents have a very good relationship. (255)

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I had a mirror moment at the beginning of the book on page 6 because he was talking about how over religious his mom is and My grandparents are really religious too. I had a window moment on page 197 when he is talking about how in Aferica they barley know anything about WWII and I realized how important it is to have an education by seeing how hard life was for them since they had little to no education.

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A mirror moment in this book was how busy Trevor Noah was, specifically when he was young and going to church almost every day: "My childhood involved church, or some form of church, at least four nights a week" (Noah 6). I am a very busy person and I have a lot of experience with going from place to place, practice to practice, and doing homework late at night. I can relate to Trevor's exhaustion. A window moment is how Trevor is only close with his mother. He expresses this relation after his mom had been shot by saying, "she was my mom. She was my teammate. It had always been me and her together, me and her against the world" (Noah 274). This is a window moment for me because unlike Trevor, I am very close with both of my parents and I also am close with my siblings. Trevor doesn't have siblings close to his age, and he is really only close with his mother.

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Mirror: My most significant mirror moment was when Trevor said that "my color didn't change but I could change your perception of my color" because as a kid, I was like him and that was how I made all of my different friend groups since I knew that, demographically, I didn't belong to any group so I had to create some way to connect with others while losing, or hiding, a part of myself (Noah 56).

Window: My most significant window moment was when Abel got out of jail because "no domestic violence charges had ever been filed in all the times [Trevor's] mother called the police to report him" because in America, most times the police will not become a boys club and allow a man to go free because woman "are just like that" and will actually follow through when there is domestic violence present in a family rather than letting it continue since it was a normal thing to happen (Noah 284).

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My mirror moment was when Trevor and his mom were going to church and the church activities. My church is very similar to what he described fro the white and mixed churches (Noah 6-7).

My window moment was when they went to file a police report for when Abel hit Trevor's mom, and the police acted like it didn't matter and it happened all the time. This shows how different South Africa deals with things that the US takes very seriously (Noah 256).

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The most significant mirror moment for me was when his mom is upset with him after he gets out of jail and is bragging about it. His mom explains to him (In a not very calm manner) that she has provided for him, and that everything she does is for him. When she is punishing him she says she is trying to save him, while when the world punishes him it's to 🤬 him. I think I take for granted the things my parents do for and to me. They have helped me and shaped me into my person.  It's like I forget 🤬 much they have provided for me and how much they have gone through for me. That just really stuck out to me because it's a revelation I have experienced, but continue to forget.

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The most significant mirror moment for me was when his mom is upset with him after he gets out of jail and is bragging about it. His mom explains to him (In a not very calm manner) that she has provided for him, and that everything she does is for him. When she is punishing him she says she is trying to save him, while when the world punishes him it's to 🤬 him. I think I take for granted the things my parents do for and to me. They have helped me and shaped me into my person.  It's like I forget 🤬 much they have provided for me and how much they have gone through for me. That just really stuck out to me because it's a revelation I have experienced, but continue to forget.

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My Window moment was at the beginning and throughout the book. When we see and experience Trevor's world it is so much different than how I would  have imagined it like that. I just think it's so interesting how it really is.
(I don't have my book right now so there aren't any page numbers)

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Mirror: When Trevor gets home from jail and his mom is disappointed in him. This happens on page 242 and reflects how i've felt towards some of my grades recently. Since i haven't been working to my full potential, similar to how Trevor hadn't been showing his full potential, i would have better grades.
Window: I noticed how horrible Trevor's step dad was throughout the book. It amazed me how much he did and got away with it all. This opened my eyes to how different cultures treat justice in different ways than we do here in the US.

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Window: Trevor and his family become very poor and have no money. They were living in their own shop and had to eat worms (Noah 260). I have never expirenced this before and it can be eye opening to how some peole have to live.
Mirror: Trevors mom is very strict but still shows love and wants the best for him. My mom can also be strict but still supports me. (Noah 68)

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My most meaningful mirror moment was when Trevor's friend Tim tricked him into performing as an American rapper at a talent show, even though he had hardly any skill. (Noah 166) This was similar to some times I got stuck doing a job way beyond me when I didn't know what I was getting into.

My most meaningful window moment was when all the kids at Trevor's school divided themselves into groups by race during recess. (Noah 57). I haven't really experienced or seen that kind of separation in school despite attending a very racially diverse middle school.

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Mirrow: I could relate to Trevor when he decided to go to a lower math class because his “friends are there”(Noah 59). I would rather be in a lower class with people that I know and im comfortable with than a smarter class where there are people I dont know. It would not seem like a bad decision to me.

Window: My window moment was when Trevor started “...selling pirated CDs on the corner”(Noah 209). At the time Trevor thought it was not illegal and just a way to make money. But I would not sell CDs if I knew it was illegal because it would seem morally wrong to me

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window: my most meaningful window moment was when Trevor and Teddy were caught stealing but the camera only caught Teddy and he said that Trevor wasn't there. You don't see that a lot in our society, if you get in trouble then you're going to rat the other person out as well so they get in trouble too. (noah 156)

mirror: i can relate to the relationship that Trevor and his mom have because even when I get in trouble, I know it's for the best and she is trying to help prepare me for the world and it'd for the best (Noah 80)

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my window moment is when trevor downstairs know where to go on the playground and feels lost. He doesn’t feel apart of anything. i do not understand what it is like to go though that. (Noah 138)

My mirror moment is when trevor started selling dvds because when i was young i sold bracelets kinda like trevor. I can relate to him very well

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Mirror: My mirror moment is Trevor's relationship with his mother. Trevor ad his mom experience a lot together. Trevor explains him and his mom's relationship as "bitter rivals, but they respect the 🤬 out of each other, and somehow they grow to like each other" (Noah 80). This is fairly similar to my mom and I. I love her to death, and I respect her like crazy, but we are so alike that we can really get on each other's nerves. I thought that the banter and the crazy deep love Trevor shares with his mom was something I could relate to.
Window: To be very blunt, the book is packed with window examples, for Trevor's environments and situations are so different to those we face everyday. However, the window moment I chose was Abel as a whole. I, thankfully, have never had to experience any abuse from any figure in my life, but Trevor talks about it in the book almost like it's second nature to him. (Noah 266).

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Mirror: “My mom did what school didn't. She taught me how to think.” I relate to this because I learn best from other people, rather than a curriculum in school.                                                                                                                                                     Window: Trevor had to speak many different languages in school in order to understand others. (Noah 54) I have never had to speak another language other than english to communicate.

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The most meaningful mirror moment for me was when Trevor started pirating games, music and videos. He set up a monopoly and was a capitalist with his ingenious idea. He expanded his empire when he became the “middle man” (Noah 186) of Bolo’s operation of pirating games. He took the opportunity and turned it into something great. I relate to this because all throughout middle school, I would buy, then re-sell Krispy Kream donuts for double the price to desperate kids. After a while I got in trouble for it. Then I started selling $20 watches from Walmart for WAY more than double and advertise them as high quality. After I capitalized off of that, I decided it wouldn’t hurt to get some experience from a Blue Collar job, which leads me to where I am now.

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Trevor has a complicated relationship with his father, which I cannot relate to at all. He only got to see his father once a week and even that was pushing it sometimes. He wasn’t contempt with his life and the schedule he had to see his father until Trevor said, “When I was thirteen, my father moved to Cape Town and we lost touch.” (Noah 103). This was hard on Tevor because he didn’t talk to his father after that. I can’t relate to this because I never had anything close to this happen to me. Compared to Trevor, I’ve had it easy and that makes me grateful for what I have.

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Mirror: In the beginning of the book, Trevor was forced to go to church when that was the last thing he wanted to spend his time doing (Noah 6). I used to experience the same thing when I was younger and I dreaded every single Sunday.
Window: I find it crazy how people can be so happy and positive after having terrible things happen to them. Trevor's mom is a perfect example when she was shot and put in the hospital.Even though she was in terrible condition, she was still saying things like "My child, you must look on the bright side." She was also cracking jokes as in, "Now you're officially the best-looking person in the family" (Noah 281).

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my biggest window was definitely his religious background all through out the first 3 chapters. Trevor Noah has to go to church almost everyday and on sundays to 3 different churches. In my whole lifetime i’ve been to church 2 times. His mother believed everything was through the lord and in my house it was completely different.

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Mirror: In the beginning of the book, Trevor was forced to go to church when that was the last thing he wanted to spend his time doing (Noah 6). I used to experience the same thing when I was younger and I dreaded every single Sunday.
Window: I find it crazy how people can be so happy and positive after having terrible things happen to them. Trevor's mom is a perfect example when she was shot and put in the hospital.Even though she was in terrible condition, she was still saying things like "My child, you must look on the bright side." She was also cracking jokes as in, "Now you're officially the best-looking person in the family" (Noah 281).

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Mirror: I can related to Trevor Noah's dog FuFi with my dog Pollo. My dog wasn't deaf but I did loose him similar to Trevor did with FuFi (pg 99). He was gone for almost 24 hours. While looking for him we found a neighbor that spoted him and decided to take him into her house and called the pound. But we arrive sooner than the pound did and the lady didn't want to give up Pollo unless the pound was there. This didn't work because like FuFi Pollo when into the neighbor's house but unlike FuFi he immediately ditched the neighbor for us.

Window: My window moment with Trevor Noah was during the chameleon chapter when Trevor could switch between being black and white in depending on the situation provided (54 pg). Being seen as one race and not living in South Africa meant that I had no relation to this. Not only does he switch from white to black or vise versa, but he can speak 5 different laguages and talk slang or proper. That way he could talk to almost any one (55pg).

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t from other people, rather than a curriculum in school. 

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My most meaningful window moment was in chapter 2 (Pages 22 - 25). The chapter opens to give you details over Trevor's birth (Noah 22). However contrary to how It may seem, Trevor starts to reveal his mothers life and how she learned to survive in a country of apartheid, providing a descriptive and structured perspective on the lives of most. (Noah 23-25)

My most meaningful mirror moment lie in chapter 11 (Pages 137 - 139). Trevor recalls his time in grade school (Sandringham Highschool). Trevor goes on to explain that when everyone was in the playground, many of those of different races, Black, Colored, White, Asian, Indian, would congregate in their own areas and groups (Noah 138). This was a great mirror moment as it showed how today in schools, there are still traces of separation of people due to how to look and how they stereotype others (into different groups).