Theme - Importance of Family

As I continue reading Born a Crime, I've noticed that there is a recurring theme about having a strong connection with family and religion to ease the hardship that comes with living in a racist and dangerous environment. Trevor Noah, the author of this book, writes quite a bit about his family members and his relationship and experiences with each one, which highlights how the majority of his childhood was spent around his family. No matter the person, though, religion seems to be an underlying commonality that brings everyone together in the book.
Although Noah had to go to great lengths to avoid being caught just for being a boy with parents of different skin colors, a frustrating situation that would make anyone upset, he deals with it with the help of his family and other people who are willing to support him and his mother. That and he was too young to fully understand racism at first, which he said was because he thought of skin colors like chocolate, "we were all just chocolate. I didn't know any of it had anything to do with 'race'".  Maybe he was better off thinking that way as a child since it might have had a bigger, and probably worse, impact on him if he understood what was really happening at the time. Overall the whole situation was rough but it was good that Trevor Noah had people to back him up, so they got through it together rather than alone.