https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip By Trevor Noah en-us 2020-01-18 20:19:39 UTC 2020-01-20 07:40:30 UTC hello@padlet.com imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433301239 After they're car broke down, Trevor, his mom, and his little brother Andrew had to take a minibus to get home from church. After getting on the minibus, they realized that the driver and themselves had different ethnicities, which were in conflict at the time. Trevor's mom and the driver had a verbal exchange, and the driver started speeding dangerously. Ultimately, in fear of being killed, Trevor's mom threw Trevor off the minibus, and then jumped with his baby brother Andrew. As soon as they hit the ground, they ran away. The captors tried to chase them. Trevor described it, saying "The men stopped the minibus, and got out and tried to chase us, but they didn't stand a chance." (Noah, 16) ]]> 2020-01-18 20:28:15 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433301239 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433452565 In order to escape they're family who didn't treat them well and to move to a "colored area", Trevor and his mom moved from Soweto to Eden Park. There, they were able to get they're own house and even a car. ]]> 2020-01-19 21:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433452565 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433453443 Maryvale was a private Catholic school. One of the events that led up to him leaving was when he wasn't allowed to take communion because he wasn't catholic, so he went behind the alter and ate all the crackers and drank all the grape juice. When he was caught, his argument was that because Jesus wasn't catholic, he wouldn't even be able to eat his own body and drink his own blood. Another incident that was ultimately the last straw was Trevor brought a knife to school. This resulted in a trip to the psychologist and him leaving the school. ]]> 2020-01-19 21:13:33 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433453443 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433455421 When Trevor was 7, his mom was dating a man named Abel. He lived in a white family's garage. This family also had a maid who lived in the backyard. At this time, Trevor also happened to be obsessed with fire, saying "At that age, my love of fire was in full bloom." (Noah, 88). One day, he was sitting inside the servant's quarters on an old straw mattress with his fire making equipment, a magnifying glass, matches, and turpentine. Then he got distracted, and when he came back, , the entire room was engulfed. He ended up burning down the entire house, except for the garage, but Abel was still kicked out. ]]> 2020-01-19 21:28:20 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433455421 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433509068 When Trevor's mom married Abel, Trevor wasn't able to see his dad as much. Abel didn't like the idea that Trevor's mom was with another man at one point. He was also very aggressive and an alcoholic, which would affect Trevor for years. According to Trevor, "We had gone from living under apartheid to living under another kind of tyranny, that of an abusive, alcoholic man." (Noah, 107)]]> 2020-01-20 03:34:47 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433509068 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433509609 After living with Abel and slowly losing contact with his dad, Trevor Eventually completely lost contact. After being apart for about ten years, Trevor's mom suggested that he went to go find his dad. Trevor got his address in Cape Town and went to visit him. This is when his father told him that he had actually been keeping track of Trevor's progress through life. The book said "It was a scrapbook of everything I had ever done, every time my name was mentioned in a newspaper" (Noah, 109). Then they talked and watched Formula 1 racing. ]]> 2020-01-20 03:38:13 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433509609 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433511107 Because of his mixed racial status, Trevor was never really accepted. In this instance, Trevor was picking berries at a mulberry tree, when some kids decided to start throwing berries at him. Some berries were ripe, while others were still hard. Trevor told Abel about it, who was drunk at the time. Abel went and had Trevor help him find the kids. They all ran, but Abel caught one before he could escape, and started whipping him with a tree branch. Trevor said "I had never seen fear in someone's eyes than I saw in his." (Noah, 125) The kid was only about twelve years old. ]]> 2020-01-20 03:46:41 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433511107 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433512393 Zaheera was a friend of one of Trevor's friends. Because of this, Trevor and Zaheera got to know each other. Trevor found that he really liked Zaheera, but she would always ask him about other guys, so Trevor assumed that she just thought of him as a friend. Ultimately, Trevor would het her phone number, and they would talk every day. Trevor decided that he would slowly become closer to her over time, but all this was ruined when one day, she suddenly moved to America. ]]> 2020-01-20 03:54:20 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433512393 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433513850 Trevor and his friend Teddy would always go out and walk around together. Some nights they would go to the mall, where they realized that at a certain shop, if they stuck their arms through the gate, they could reach these chocolates filled with alcohol. They did this often for a while, until one day, a mall cop saw him do it. Teddy and Trevor ran, and the mall cop chased them. More and more cops chased them as they ran back towards their houses. Eventually, they reached a dead end. Trevor knew that there was a hole in the fence that he could go through, but Teddy didn't. Teddy turned back, and Trevor kept going. Teddy was caught, Trevor wasn't. Later, at school, Trevor was called down to the office, since the cops knew that he was Teddy's friend. They had footage of the whole incident, but because the film was poor, the cops assumed that Trevor in the video was actually white, so Trevor was never caught. ]]> 2020-01-20 04:01:37 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433513850 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433515058 At Trevor's school, there was a little shop where students could buy food and drinks. It was called the Tuck Shop. Before lunch, the whole school was required to attend an assembly. Because Trevor was a good runner, he was always first in line to the Tuck Shop. He realized that if he could get people to pay him to take orders, he would make a huge profit. If he was there first, he would be able to get them their food faster, and plus, according to Trevor, "if you got there late, the best food was gone." (Noah, 139) This also helped him meet more people]]> 2020-01-20 04:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433515058 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433518575 At this point, Trevor was sure that he would never get a date to the dance. That was, until he made a deal with someone named Tom. Tom said that he would get Trevor a beautiful girl to go to the dance with if he could get a better cut off of Trevor's business. Trevor met Babiki, and hung out with her and her family. When the time came around, Trevor got new clothes and did his hair to get ready. He picked her up in a neat up old car. He was going to take a better one, but Abel changed his mind at the last minute, telling Trevor "'I need my car tonight'" (Noah, 174). Trevor eventually picked her up, and began driving towards the dance, but got lost. By the time they arrived, they were two hours late. Then Babiki wouldn't get out of the car. After talking to some of his friends, Trevor realized that Babiki didn't speak English. They never actually had a converstation. ]]> 2020-01-20 04:31:23 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433518575 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433519722 After operating his Tuck Shop business for a while, Trevor met a few new kids to the school. They were Chinese, and also had a CD writer. They would use it to pirate music and movies and sell it. After one of them left, they decided to give Trevor the CD writer. Trevor began taking requests from people and would pirate music for them. As he made money, he slowly upgraded his equipment. He started making mixed CDs, and eventually Trevor's friend, Bogani, came up with the idea that he could make tracks and be a sort of DJ. Because of this, the business exploded. The began getting venues, and making a ton of money. ]]> 2020-01-20 04:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433519722 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433524060 Because he is mixed, if Trevor was seen calling his mom "mom" in public, she would risk being arrested. Because of this, he was always either kept inside, or he would have to go outside with a colored caretaker named Queen. According to Trevor, "Queen would walk next to me and act like she was my mother, and my mother would walk a few steps behind, like she was the maid working for the colored woman." (Noah, 28)]]> 2020-01-20 05:06:29 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433524060 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433524812 While living with his grandma and the rest of his family, they would host neighborhood prayer groups in the house. Trevor would always have to participate in these, and say prayers. According t the book, he would always pray because "Whenever the prayer meetings were at our house, because my prayers were so good, my grandmother would want me to pray for everyone." (Noah, 40)]]> 2020-01-20 05:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433524812 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433525095 One day while still living with his whole family, the weather was horrible. Trevor had to go to the bathroom, but he didn't want to go outside in the rain to the communal toilet. Naturally, he decided to go on a newspaper, but he didn't realize that his great grandmother was sitting right by him. She was blind, so she couldn't see what he was doing. Trevor disposed of it in the trash and thought that it was over with. After a while, Trevor's grandmother came home, and his great grandmother told her that there were weird noises and a horrible smell, so they called in Trevor's mom. Eventually, his mom found the evidence in the trash. After finding the evidence, his mom came to the obvious conclusion that there was a demon in the house. She got Trevor up, and an emergency prayer meeting was called. The neighborhood came, which Trevor describing the seen as "Moments later the grannies came streaming in with their Bibles, through the gate and up the driveway, a dozen or more at least." (Noah, 46). They burned the newspaper and its contents while the whole neighborhood prayed to cast out the demon who did it. ]]> 2020-01-20 05:12:01 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433525095 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433527505 When Trevor entered H.A. Jack primary school, he had to take an aptitude test. He scored well, and was put into the top class. Trevor noticed that the majority of the class was white, with there only being a few kids who weren't in the class. When recess came, Trevor got to see everyone else in the school. It didn't take long for his to realize that the school didn't have a white majority, but there majority of the school was actually comprised of black students. Eventually, he started taking to the black kids and realized that he was in the wrong class. When he asked to switch to the lower class, the counselor told him that he didn't want to do that, and that the people in there were dumb, and wouldn't be friends with him. Trevor insisted though, and he ultimately seemed to make the right choice. ]]> 2020-01-20 05:23:54 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433527505 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433528400 After moving to Eden Park, when he wasn't at church or school, Trevor and his mom would explore. They would go to parks and go on drives. Ultimately, his mom was just trying to give Trevor what she never had. ]]> 2020-01-20 05:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433528400 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433529972 After high school, Trevor moved here to escape Abel. He continued his pirating business with his friends. He worked in the hood, and got to know many people. He began making more and more money as well through new deals. ]]> 2020-01-20 05:42:08 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433529972 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433530389 One day, while DJing at a party, there was a noise complaint. The cops came, and told Trevor to shut it down. Because the program was taking a while to shut down, the cop shot the monitor, which fried the hard drive. It erased the years of work Trevor had done collecting music. ]]> 2020-01-20 05:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433530389 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433531901 One day, Trevor decided to take one of Abel's old cars out. He took a license plate from a pile and stuck it on the car and went out for a drive. He was pulled over in Hillbrow. The policeman ran the plates, and found that they didn't match the car. They took Trevor in and charged him. They suspected him of carjacking and murder in addition to this. Trevor got a lawyer, and went to court. He was eventually released, after spending a week in jail. After getting out, Trevor thought "the thought of doing time in a real prison, I couldn't even imagine". (Noah, 242)]]> 2020-01-20 05:55:31 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433531901 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433536495 Noah, Trevor. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood. Spiegel & Grau, an Imprint of Random House, 2019.]]> 2020-01-20 06:27:59 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433536495 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433545644 2020-01-20 07:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433545644 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433546366 2020-01-20 07:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433546366 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433546667 2020-01-20 07:26:08 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433546667 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433547440 2020-01-20 07:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433547440 imandav000 https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433548443 2020-01-20 07:34:03 UTC https://padlet.com/imandav000/jbndbmqif9ip/wish/433548443