Literary Criticism
Born a Crime is a meaningful, heartfelt book that is like no other. Not only is the circumstance of being born mixed during apartheid unique in itself, but the writing style that Trevor Noah has is familiar and personal, allowing for a connection between the readers and the book. He often writes in a light-hearted, comedic tone that we all recognize and it breaks up the seriousness of some of the troubling topics that he explores, especially violence and discrimination. The book is written so that his stories are described from the perspective of how he actually felt when he was in that experience rather than simply telling what happened, and as a reader, we get to observe how those experiences affected his life. It's like we're growing up with him, starting from when he was a child, too little to even understand race, to when he was a young adult learning that his mother was shot by a dysfunctional man. Essentially, the purpose of this book is to understand people of diffe...