Born a Crime PDF - Overview
Born a Crime stories from a South African Childhood is an autobiographical comedy book written by the South African comedian Trevor Noah, published in 2016. A film adaptation is being produced by Paramount Players. The book details Trevor Noah growing up in his native South Africa during the apartheid era. As the mixed-race son of a white Swiss-German father and a black Xhosa mother, Noah himself was classified as a “coloured” in accordance to the apartheid system of racial classification.
The Born a Crime book opens with young Noah being thrown out of a minibus by his mother because she thought the driver, a man from another South African tribe, was going to kill them. Noah develops social and mental agility, using his fluency in languages to break the barrier to his acceptance as a mixed race child. Growing up in poverty, he finds independence by earning money from selling illegal bootleg CDs, first at school and later on the streets of the notorious neighborhood of Alexandra.
Born a Crime
Contents of Born a Crime
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Immorality Act, 1927
Part I
- Chapter 1: Run
- Chapter 2: Born a Crime
- Chapter 3: Trevor, Pray
- Chapter 4: Chameleon
- Chapter 5: The Second Girl
- Chapter 6: Loopholes
- Chapter 7: Fufi
- Chapter 8: Robert
Part II
- Chapter 9: The Mulberry Tree
- Chapter 10: A Young Man’s Long, Awkward, Occasionally Tragic, and Frequently Humiliating Education in Affairs of the Heart, Part I: Valentine’s Day
- Chapter 11: Outsider
- Chapter 12: A Young Man’s Long, Awkward, Occasionally Tragic, and Frequently Humiliating Education in Affairs of the Heart, Part II: The Crush
- Chapter 13: Colorblind
- Chapter 14: A Young Man’s Long, Awkward, Occasionally Tragic, and Frequently Humiliating Education in Affairs of the Heart, Part III: The Dance
Part III
- Chapter 15: Go Hitler!
- Chapter 16: The Cheese Boys
- Chapter 17: The World Doesn’t Love You
- Chapter 18: My Mother’s Life
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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