ELijah C Born A Crime Padlet by Elijah Crawford https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm en-us 2025-05-14 13:24:48 UTC 2025-05-27 14:03:51 UTC hello@padlet.com Chapter 1 : page 17 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3450582556 '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.

]]> 2025-05-14 13:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3450582556 Chapter 1: Page 16 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3450590747 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.

]]> 2025-05-14 13:36:10 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3450590747 Chapter 2: Page 23 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3450634627 Both the black people of South Africa and the Jewish people were relocated to ghettos, forced to do labor.

]]> 2025-05-14 14:01:09 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3450634627 Chapter 2: Page 31 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3450667274 "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."

]]> 2025-05-14 14:21:06 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3450667274 Chapter 3: Page 41 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3452609647 "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."

]]> 2025-05-15 14:00:27 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3452609647 Chapter 3: Page 47 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3452629652 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.

]]> 2025-05-15 14:12:25 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3452629652 Chapter 5: Page 64 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3454296878 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

]]> 2025-05-16 13:55:00 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3454296878 Chapter 5: Page 64 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3454302125 "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"

]]> 2025-05-16 13:59:16 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3454302125 Chapter 4: Page 55 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3454302720 "Living with my mom, I saw how she used language to cross boundaries, handle situations, and navigate the world."

]]> 2025-05-16 13:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3454302720 Chapter 4: Page 51 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3454308649 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.

]]> 2025-05-16 14:04:52 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3454308649 Chapter 6: Page 80 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3457327248 "My relationship with my mom was like the relationship between a cop and a criminal in the movies"

]]> 2025-05-19 13:11:57 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3457327248 Chapter 6: Page 82 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3457394291 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.

]]> 2025-05-19 13:59:01 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3457394291 Chapter 7: Page 95 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459268043 "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"

]]> 2025-05-20 12:37:08 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459268043 Chapter 7: Page 96 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459270692 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.

]]> 2025-05-20 12:38:57 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459270692 Chapter 8: Page 109 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459273039 "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."

]]> 2025-05-20 12:40:46 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459273039 Chapter 8: Page 111 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459275089 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.

]]> 2025-05-20 12:42:14 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459275089 Chapter 9: Page 122 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459277157 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.

]]> 2025-05-20 12:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459277157 Chapter 9: Page 125 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459279251 "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."

]]> 2025-05-20 12:45:22 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459279251 Chapter 10: Page 132 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459287147 "She said it so matter-of-factly that I had no idea how to process it."

]]> 2025-05-20 12:50:58 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459287147 Chapter 10: Page 132 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459288858 Noah is very naive about love and is peer pressured into asking someone out. many people fall to peer pressure due to being naive

]]> 2025-05-20 12:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459288858 Chapter 1: Page 6 anadiplosis elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459341669 "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."

]]> 2025-05-20 13:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459341669 Chapter 2 Page 25 polysyndeton elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459356396 She was always at some club, some party. dancing, meeting people.

]]> 2025-05-20 13:36:08 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459356396 Chapter 2 Page 29 Parenthesis elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459360233 "--Hippos, we called them---"

]]> 2025-05-20 13:38:29 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459360233 Chapter 8 Page 104 chiasmus elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459373132 "Most people marry because they want to control another,[...], and he never wanted to be controlled

]]> 2025-05-20 13:46:44 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459373132 Chapter 7 Page 97 anaphora elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459375325 "Fufi was mine. Fufi was beautiful"

]]> 2025-05-20 13:48:17 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459375325 chapter 7 Page 97 Epistrophe elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459380832 "Fufi was dumb as shit. at least we always that she was dum as shit."

]]> 2025-05-20 13:51:30 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459380832 Chapter 1 Page 8 rhetorical question elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459384802 "is it possible for time to actually stop"

]]> 2025-05-20 13:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459384802 Chapter 2 Page 25 paralellism elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459386756 sometimes the clubs andrestaurants would get shut down and sometimes not. sometimes the performer and patrons would get arested sometimes not

]]> 2025-05-20 13:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459386756 Chapter 2 Page 25 asyndeton elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459387765 "she was always out at some club some party dancing, meeting peopel"

]]> 2025-05-20 13:55:50 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459387765 Chapter to 2 Page 27 rule of three elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459389507 "Daddy! daddy! Daddy!"

]]> 2025-05-20 13:56:53 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459389507 Chapter 11 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459424526 "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."

]]> 2025-05-20 14:20:54 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459424526 Chapter 11 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459427067 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.

]]> 2025-05-20 14:22:39 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459427067 Chapter 12 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459429900 "Ten words that might have changed my life if I'd had the courage to say them."

]]> 2025-05-20 14:24:32 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459429900 Chapter 12 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459431460 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.

]]> 2025-05-20 14:25:31 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3459431460 Chapter 13: Page 153 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3463156114 "One of those friends where you start hanging out and from that day forward you're never apart"

]]> 2025-05-22 12:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3463156114 Chapter 13 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3463172383 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.

]]> 2025-05-22 12:18:28 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3463172383 Chapter 14: Page 173 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3464893581 "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. "

]]> 2025-05-23 12:51:54 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3464893581 Chapter 14 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3464894340 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

]]> 2025-05-23 12:52:40 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3464894340 Chapter 15: Page 190 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3464897367 "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.""

]]> 2025-05-23 12:55:38 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3464897367 Chapter 13: Rhetorical terms elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3464937302 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)

]]> 2025-05-23 13:34:23 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3464937302 Chapter 16: Page 207 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3464969249 "They're free, they've been taught how to fish, but no one will give them a fishing rod.


]]> 2025-05-23 14:03:37 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3464969249 Chapter 15 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3464972071 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

]]> 2025-05-23 14:06:21 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3464972071 Chapter 16 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3469298133 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

]]> 2025-05-27 13:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3469298133 Chapter 17 Page 227 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3469301954 "My mom never gave me an inch. Anytime I got in trouble, it was tough love, lectures, punishment, and hiding"

]]> 2025-05-27 13:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3469301954 Chapter 17 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3469310036 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

]]> 2025-05-27 13:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3469310036 Chapter 18 Page 267 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3469316484 "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. "

]]> 2025-05-27 13:40:41 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3469316484 Chapter 18 elijahcrawfords12 https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3469349689 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.

]]> 2025-05-27 14:03:50 UTC https://padlet.com/elijahcrawfords12/kybwux16k69a6wcm/wish/3469349689