Trevor Noah's "Born a Crime"
I'd better be writing my endless comments on the book while I was actually reading it. It would be a pity not to reminisce all of those thoughts evoked.
First things first, my fresh comment on the great body of topics: the logic of racism, domestic violence, poverty, but the most significant to me, living in the world you are not really supposed to be (outsider in any way). And the most important, how all of those are tangled and interpenetrate each other creating a bigger picture of the human trying to survive, stay human, make right choices, search for answers, take back his freedom.
Finishing the book, I would be so excited about the last chapters starting from Cheese boys where Trevor perfectly put the idea of being criminal as not a matter of choice but as a matter of surviving.
How elusive the word crime is - are you sure you are not a criminal? We are all connected, this way or another. По ком звонит колокол? Не спрашивай, он звонит по тебе. Just in a perspective of the global village we have always lived in.
I admire the fine line between tragic and comic he observes when telling his stories. You constantly find yourself with the same feeling of ambiguity: wait a sec?is he serious or laughing? And, yeap, that is another fantastic talent of his: Trevor is a brilliant story-teller, working his stories from such angles so you're left with no other choice than keep reading, looking up info, checking facts, learning more about this part of your global village, called South Africa seemed so distant and vague before. Because that is what great stories, actually, should do - drag you into a drastically different perspective of the world gently and with a thorough description of all unknown terms and phenomena and giving adaptive similies all along with the narration. So, you won't feel like alone, you are a really important part of the story as well. This is all his stories about: diversity as a norma where everyone matters. Period.
First things first, my fresh comment on the great body of topics: the logic of racism, domestic violence, poverty, but the most significant to me, living in the world you are not really supposed to be (outsider in any way). And the most important, how all of those are tangled and interpenetrate each other creating a bigger picture of the human trying to survive, stay human, make right choices, search for answers, take back his freedom.
Finishing the book, I would be so excited about the last chapters starting from Cheese boys where Trevor perfectly put the idea of being criminal as not a matter of choice but as a matter of surviving.
How elusive the word crime is - are you sure you are not a criminal? We are all connected, this way or another. По ком звонит колокол? Не спрашивай, он звонит по тебе. Just in a perspective of the global village we have always lived in.
I admire the fine line between tragic and comic he observes when telling his stories. You constantly find yourself with the same feeling of ambiguity: wait a sec?is he serious or laughing? And, yeap, that is another fantastic talent of his: Trevor is a brilliant story-teller, working his stories from such angles so you're left with no other choice than keep reading, looking up info, checking facts, learning more about this part of your global village, called South Africa seemed so distant and vague before. Because that is what great stories, actually, should do - drag you into a drastically different perspective of the world gently and with a thorough description of all unknown terms and phenomena and giving adaptive similies all along with the narration. So, you won't feel like alone, you are a really important part of the story as well. This is all his stories about: diversity as a norma where everyone matters. Period.
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