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What role did church play in Trevor's upbringing?
Mother was a super Christian. They went to 3 churches each Sunday- mixed church, white
church and black church.
What is Trevor's mother like, based on his descriptions?
Stubborn, Christian, determined and fierce. She is not afraid of the war ...
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Born a Crime Questions and Correct
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What role did church play in Trevor's upbringing?
✓ Mother was a super Christian. They went to 3 churches each Sunday- mixed church, white
church and black church.
What is Trevor's mother like, based on his descriptions?
✓ Stubborn, Christian, determined and fierce. She is not afraid of the war going on outside
her home and insists in going about her normal business, despite the danger.
How did Trevor end up being thrown from the mini-bus?
✓ He, his mother and his baby brother hitchhiked home from church. The driver of the car
that they were in was harassed by the mini bus driver, so they accepted a ride with the
mini bus driver. The mini bus driver harassed Trevor's mother and threatened to harm her,
so his mother pushed him out of the bus and jumped out herself, while shielding his baby
brother.
According to Noah, how did apartheid come about?
✓ When the British Empire fell, the Afrikaner came back to claim South Africa as their
rightful inheritance. They went around the world to study institutionalized racism all over
the world and they came up with the most advanced system of racial oppression known to
man.
How did Trevor's mother, Patricia, find a place to live in Johannesburg?
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✓ She met fellow Xhosa women who taught her how to get around; she dressed in maid's
overalls and rented a flat from a Swiss/German expat named Robert.
What was life like for Trevor as a child in Johannesburg and in Soweto?
✓ His existence was illegal. Whenever he spent time with his father, he had to hide. In
Johannesburg, when he went walking with his parents, his mother and father had to walk
on opposite sides of the street. In Soweto, his grandmother kept him indoors for the fear
that he would be taken away or she would be turned in.
Explain Trevor's experience growing up "in a world run by women."
✓ He could only see his father when apartheid allowed it. The only other man in his life was
his grandfather, who was divorced from his grandmother and rarely came around. The
other neighborhood children were being raised by the women, too, because their fathers
had been sent to prison, or were off working in a mine, or in exile, fighting the cause.
Describe Soweto.
✓ He calls it a "prison designed by our oppressors." It had an aspirational quality and a
dream to "transform the ghetto." There were no paved roads, minimal electricity, and
inadequate sewerage. There was a black market economy and informal grocery stores,
where people would buy wholesale, sell piecemeal.
What happened when Trevor decided to use the bathroom on the floor in his house
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✓ His great grandmother Koko hears him doing it, but he does not answer her. She thinks
that the house has been invaded by something evil and calls in the all of the praying
ladies of the neighborhood to pray for the house and pray away the demon. Trevor prays
also, and he feels guilty for what he's done.
After he injured his cousin, Bulelwa's ear, why did Bulelwa and the other cousins get punished,
while Trevor did not?
✓ His grandmother said she could not hit a white child; she was afraid of the colors
(bruising) that happened when he was hit.
What are some other perks that Trevor experienced for being "white"?
✓ He was given a warning while his black cousins were punished. People on the street would
call him "the white man" and run away. At a funeral, he was chosen to eat indoors
because only the family and white folks were allowed to eat indoors.
Describe Trevor's experience at the Maryvale College School and at then at the H.A.
Jack Primary School. How were these experiences different?
✓ At Maryvale, there was no racial separation. The cliques were racially mixed. He felt that
this school was great, but it sheltered him from reality. At H.A. Jack, he tested into the A
(smart) classes and he was with mostly white students. At recess, he realized that the
school was mostly black students, but these students were in the B classes. He liked the
black kids more, so he decided to drop down to the B classes to be with kids he liked. H.A.
Jack showed him how the real world was and how people divided themselves by race.
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