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Postcolonial Effect of the Apartheid System in Born a Crime

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Nelson Mandela  Born a Crime takes place in the Apartheid period, where a system was put in place separate blacks and whites while not allowing the blacks to have the same rights as the whites. Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader rebelled and negotiated to put an end to the system which encouraged unfair treatment of the black men and women of South Africa. Trevor Noah’s enlightens the racism and prejudice of the Apartheid period through his childhood.  The apartheid system treated people unequally based on their race and appearance, this is evident in the employment patterns during the apartheid period. Black people were forced to work in isolation which led to a sense of alienation. Due to this most of the blacks who were underprivileged had to live in small poor towns, like Soweto, where Trevor’s family lived. This separation created the basis of reputation, as Trevor declares that Johensseberg was superior to the ghettos the bla...
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Archetypes of "Born a Crime"

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Halfway into the novel, Trevor starts turning away from having Apartheid as his main focus and starts developing the characters that played a huge role in his life for the readers. The second half of the novel focuses on him as an individual, his family, and especially his mother Particia, his stepdad Abel, his first crush Maylene, and his troublesome friend Tom who played crucial archetypal roles in Trevor's life.  The Women Behind Trevor's Current Success The most crucial character in Trevor's life was his mother Patricia. For the first few chapters of the novel I made the assumption that Patricia was a Damsel in Distress, but as I kept reading the novel I realized Patricia is nothing like a Damsel in Distress since she doesn't exhibit any weaknesses and is not dependent on anyone. The following quotation shows how Patricia faces her problems without fear and relying on anyone else, “At one point, I had to disown to go off and live my own life -” (Noah 265). ...
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"Born a Crime" Memoir of Trevor Noah

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Trevor Noah's very comedic memoir “Born a Crime” takes place during the Apartheid period. Trevor describes the Apartheid as “Apart hate” (Noah 3) because white groups made policies of racial segregation to keep different groups of the black race from coming together. Afraid that if the black people of South Africa were to come together the white minority would be outnumbered five to one. So by allocating the black South Africans into different areas based on their tribes and by using the animosity that already existed between the tribes they were able to keep the black South Africans from unifying and overpowering the white government. Trevor Noah a South African Comedian  By manipulating the tribes, white minorities were able to keep themselves in power. So this makes me wonder whether societies and even nations are being manipulated to this day to benefit a smaller party. This would explain the pointless hate and violence that happened in the past or is still going on th...
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