Born a Crime by Christopher TeodoroAyala

Beautiful Lines

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-14 13:41:14 UTC

Chapter 1: "I so badly wanted to turn to my mom and say, You see? This is why God wanted us to stay home. But one look at the expression on her, and I knew better than to speak. There were many times I could talk smack to my mom-this was not one of them." (Pg.3)

Connection

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-15 14:19:40 UTC

Chapter 1: Trevor wants to talk back to his mom but the expression of Trevor's mom's face made him rethink his action. There are times when I also wanna talk back to my mom when I think she doing something wrong, but when I do it just causes me getting in trouble by my dad because I talk back to my mom or just saying what I think she doing is wrong that's why I rethink before if I wanna talk back to my mom and get in trouble by both my parents.

Beautiful Lines

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-15 14:24:51 UTC

Chapter 2: "If your papers were revoked for any reason, you could be deported back to the homelands." (Pg.24)

Connection

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-20 13:19:53 UTC

Chapter 2: Trevor talks about if your papers/documents get revoked you get deported back to homelands. My parents aren't born in the U.S so they are illegal. When Donald Trump first got to the U.S my family was scared even I was.

Rhetorical Devices

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-20 13:38:06 UTC

Epistrophe: "To this I hate secondhand down cars. Almost everything that's gone wrong in my life I can trace back to a secondhand car."(Pg.9)

Rhetorical Devices

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-20 13:44:13 UTC

Rule Of Three: "Beyonce shits. The pope shits. The queen of England shits." (Pg.43)

Rhetorical Devices

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Parenthesis: "One afternoon everyone was at work-my mom and Abel and both of the white parents-and the kid and I were playing together while his mom was inside cleaning the house."(Pg.88)

Rhetorical Devices

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-20 13:55:51 UTC

Chiasmus: "He loved the ladies, and the ladies loved him."(Pg.35)

Rhetorical Devices

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-20 13:59:45 UTC

Anadiplosis: "To this day I hate secondhand cars. Almost everything that's ever gone wrong I can trace back to a secondhand car. Secondhand cars made me get detention for being late for school. Secondhand cars left us hitchhiking on the side of the freeway."(Pg.9)

Rhetorical Devices

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-20 14:01:18 UTC

Anaphora: "Please say we'll just stay home. Please say we'll just stay home."(Pg.9)

Rhetorical Devices

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-20 14:02:34 UTC

Rhetorical Question: "Wait, what? You mean we could have left? That was an option?"(Pg.30)

Rhetorical Devices

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-20 14:08:07 UTC

Polysyndeton: "You go to the hospital and you heal and you move on and finally put the whole thing behind you-and then one day somebody tells you about parachutes" (Pg.31)

Rhetorical Devices

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-20 14:18:58 UTC

Asyndeton: "As always, I was adept enough with the white kids not to get bullied by them, but the white kids were always going shopping, going to movies, going on trips-things that required money."(Pg.38?)

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-20 14:21:16 UTC

Parallelism: "I'd drop in, pass out the snacks, tell a few jokes." (Pg.141)

Beautiful Lines

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-21 13:47:06 UTC

Chapter 3: "I grew up in a world full of women" (Pg.34)

Connection

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-21 13:50:35 UTC

Chapter 3: I'm the only boy in my family well my dad too but my dad was always working so I grew up around girls all the time. My mom, and my two sisters always taught me stuff even tho my sister were younger than me.

Chapter 13

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-21 14:08:54 UTC

Alliteration: "Teddy and Trevor think, as thieves. Teddy's mom worked as a domestic for a family in Linksfield, a wealthy suburb near school." (Pg.53 & 54)

Chapter 13

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-21 14:17:20 UTC

Asyndeton: "Reach in, grab a chocolate, drink the rum. Reach in, grab a chocolate, drink the brandy." (Pg.154)

Beautiful Lines

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-23 14:22:05 UTC

Chapter 4: "Being beaten didn't make me feel better." (Pg.53)

Connection

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 01:34:03 UTC

Chapter 4: Growing up If I did something wrong I would always blame it on my sister or I would tell my parents "I don't know who caused it" so I couldn't get hit. But later on my parents would notice I would use the same excuse.

Beautiful Lines

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 01:39:35 UTC

Chapter 5: "My mother didn't see her family for twelve years." (Pg.64)

Connection

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 01:41:20 UTC

Chapter 5: When my mom came to the U.S she left her family behind in Mexico. She was 28. It took her years just for my mom to her family again but when she did the first thing she did was hug her mom and dad.

Beautiful Lines

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 02:06:20 UTC

Chapter 6: "I was hyperactive, too. I craved constant stimulation and activity. When I walked down the sidewalk as a toddler, If you didn't have my arm in a death grip, I was off, running full-speed toward the traffic. I loved to be chased. I thought it was a game" (Pg.78)

Beautiful Lines

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 02:32:08 UTC

Chapter 7: "Fufi was the love of my life. Beautiful but stupid. I raised her. I potty-trained her. She slept in my bed. A dog is a great thing for a kid to have. It's like a bicycle but with emotions." (Pg.97)

Connections

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 03:42:55 UTC

Chapter 6: My mom would always be watching me the most going out instead of my sister because I would try to go somewhere

Connections

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 03:49:02 UTC

Chapter 7: I used to have a cat like. It ran away but I was so happy when I first got it. I used to treat it as a stuff animal and would always play with him.

Beautiful Lines

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 03:54:00 UTC

Chapter 8: It was a scrapbook of everything I have done" (Pg.109)

Connections

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 03:55:08 UTC

Chapter 8: I feel like every parent at least has something saved for there kids to see in the future. Like my mom would save my baby clothes and have a book with baby pictures of me and sisters.

Beautiful Lines

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 13:32:31 UTC

Chapter 9:"Every year when it bore fruit the neighborhood kids would go and pick up berries from it, eating as many as they could and filling up bags to take home." (Pg.117)

Connections

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 13:34:12 UTC

Chapter 9: My dad planted 3 peach trees when I was little it grew over time. And it was too much peaches for us so neighbors would start picking up peaches from the tree. Sometimes it would be parents with bags and sometimes they would just grab one and take it home.

Beautiful Lines

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 13:44:30 UTC

Chapter 10: "Trevor, make sure your women is the women of your life. Don't be one of these men who makes his wife compete with his mother." (Pg.127)

Connections

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 13:46:24 UTC

Chapter 10: My parents have always told me this " make sure the person you get will accept who we are" and I said I will and of course I'ma take my parents side over my wife.

Beautiful Lines

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 13:48:05 UTC

Chapter 11:"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." (Pg.141)

Connections

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 13:48:31 UTC

Chapter 11: I feel like we could all connect to this quote from the first day freshman year. We all have been in a class without knowing anybody so we just stayed silent.

Beautiful Lines

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 13:54:55 UTC

Chapter 12: "Ten words that might have changed my life if I'd had the courage to say them." (Pg.149)

Connections

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 13:55:54 UTC

Chapter 12: We have all been scared to confess our love for someone or just ask something from your parents. Or in class too.

Beautiful Lines

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 13:59:51 UTC

Chapter 13: " We were both naughty as shit, too. With Teddy, I'd finally met someone who made me feel normal." (Pg.153)

Connections

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 14:01:24 UTC

Chapter 13: I was always getting in trouble until my sister was born and then we both were getting in trouble.

Beautiful Lines

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 14:07:00 UTC

Chapter 14: "Once I had a car, I desperately needed something to wear." (Pg.170)

Connections

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 14:07:46 UTC

Chapter 14: I didn't own a car but when I learned to drive I wanted to always go out and buy clothes.

Beautiful Lines

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 14:11:39 UTC

Chapter 15: "With the money I made selling CD's and video games, I was able to save up and add new components and more memory to my own computer."(Pg.186)

Connections

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-27 14:13:03 UTC

Chapter 15: I didn't sell CD's or video games but I would do extra chores so I could get paid later on I saved up money to buy my self a new game.

Beautiful Lines

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-28 01:37:21 UTC

Chapter 16: "My friend Bongani was a short, bald, super-buff guy. He wasn't always that way. His whole life he has been skinny and then a bodybuilder magazine found its way into his hands and changed his life."(Pg.204)

Connections

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-28 01:45:17 UTC

Chapter 16: I have a friend Jesus Mata who graduated last year he used to be really skinny. But when he graduated in the summer he started hitting the gym stayed contestant and looks better than ever.

Beautiful Lines

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-28 01:56:42 UTC

Chapter 17: "My mom never gave me an inch. Anytime I got in trouble it was tough love, lectures, punishment, and hiding. Every time." (Pg.227)

Connections

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-28 01:59:30 UTC

Chapter 17: It was my mom but my dad. I would always get in trouble even for my sister things. It was either I did because it was most likely me or because I was the oldest and didn't tell them what to do and not do.

Beautiful Lines

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-28 02:19:13 UTC

Chapter 18: "Men are not even allowed in the kitchen. As a nine-year old boy, I thought this was fantastic. I wasn't allowed to do anything." (Pg.250-251)

Connections

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-28 02:27:14 UTC

Chapter 18: Growing up with always around women my mom told me to do chores always. And I liked it at first but then I got tired. I saw a video on why its bad to clean my mom just started laughing.

Chapter 13

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-28 03:58:35 UTC

Allusion-"My mom used to call him Bus Bunny; he had a cheeky smile with two big teeth that stuck out the front of his mouth." (Pg.153)

Chapter 13

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-28 03:59:35 UTC

Polysyndeton-"They chased and chased we ran and ran, and it was awesome." (Pg.155)

Chapter 13

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-28 04:07:57 UTC

Anaphora-"We'd hit the jackpot, we started going back again and again to steal more. We'd wait for the shops to start to close, then we'd go and sit against the gate, acting like we were just hanging out. We'd check to make sure the coast was clear, and then one of us would reach in, grab a chocolate, and drink the whiskey." (Pg.154)

Chapter 13

christopherayas19 — 2025-05-28 04:13:17 UTC

Parallelism-"With Teddy, I'd finally met someone who made me feel normal. I was the terror in my family. He was the terror in his family."(Pg.153)