Before apartheid, any black South African who received a formal education was likely taughtby European missionaries,
Love how he explains the historical context for the uninformed
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- May 2021
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ucl-eu-west-2-moodle-sitedata.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com ucl-eu-west-2-moodle-sitedata.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.comBorn a Crime14
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Being at H. A. Jack made me realize I was black.
I see the author's habit of making a descriptive conclusion to the chapter to tie it all in on how he's feeling
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Because of my color, they thought I was a coloredperson, but speaking the same languages meant that I belonged to their tribe
??? I'm confused by this line. Aren't they the same thing??
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e were the onlyblack people there, and my mom didn’t separate herself from anyone.
I love the example the mother sets
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I hadcrushes on white girls. I had crushes on black girls.
thats nice and all but crushes in primary school(eye roll)
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became a chameleon
I love this comparison/metaphor made by the author. It really helps the reader understand how he feels(even though he's doing a great job of it already)
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“I thought you were like the otherblacks. You know how they love to steal.”
The normalization of this makes me sick
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“Hoekomvolg jy nie daai swartes sodat jy hulle kan help kry waarna hulle soek nie?” “
I really like how the author includes the original language, even if I don't understand it. It makes the whole book more authentic
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just thought they had their colors mixed up, like they hadn’t learned themproperly.
I can relate to this lolol
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Few people had televisions.
This makes me realize how we don't appreciate the Internet enough
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Ninety-nine point nine percent ofthem were black—and then there was me
most likely a hyperbole
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At that point I didn’t think of the special treatment as having to do with color. Ithought of it as having to do with Trevor.
It really shows how an upbringing/education can really affect someone. We take whatever we learn in our childhoods without questioning anything. Its both a beautiful and bad thing
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My mom was the only force I truly feared.
Good for the mom
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My own family basically did what the Americanjustice system does
He really went there
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www.sateskole.no www.sateskole.no
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o, I mean you have to leave the rez forever.
the author is doing a really good job of escalating the story at this moment
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No, I'm not.""Yes, you are.
like the repetition that adds humor
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I'd broken his nose but he was trying to apologize to me
Again, the writer uses italics for emphasis.
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e were supposed to make you give up beingIndian.
the author's incorporation of history into the conflict of the plot makes this story so much more important and elevated
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That silence got so big and real that it felt like three people sat on the porch
nice metaphor
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Mr. P didn't want me dead, but I don't think he would have minded if I'd beenthe only survivor of a plane that crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
I love the author choosing to make the narrator so imaginative
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contemplating
the way this word is italicized makes me think it was done on purpose for emphasis
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He was a math teacher
I'd never have thought to find something this inspirational from a math teacher
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You have to leave this reservation
I wonder what time period this story takes place. It feels recent but the word "reservation"makes it feel old
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Wejust sit there quietly and watch the games
I relate to this feeling
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I hide the magazines filled with photos ofnaked women; my later hides her tender romance novels that tell stories about naked women
Love the realism
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She wanted to write romance novels
I love how this pairs with the above picture. This really reminds of Diary of a Wimpy Kid
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We were trying to kill Indian culture.
I love how this went from teenage mood hormonal problems to the problem of native american suppression and mistreatment
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like
despite it being one word, saying "like" just overall makes the story feel more real and the narrator feel more young
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It was a trick question. I knew I needed to answer correctly or he'd be mad.
love this line. Ik the feeling of trying to get on an adult's good side by saying the right things
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- Apr 2021
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"Pleading Child" was shorter but slower; "Perfectly Contented" was longer butfaster. And after I had played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.
Writer's move: an ingenious way to allude to the theme of the story
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Unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be, I could only be me.
clink: this really reminded me of the lesson: you are what you make yourself, and her mother caused her to want to be a "failure"
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Alakazam!-her face went blank, her mouth closed
clunk: I honestly wonder how she felt, but the story never made it clear
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like a trainswitching to the right track.
writer's move: there are many more examples of this, but I love the way the writer makes comparisons
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at my mother's blank face
(writer's move+clink) again, the author goes to the finest detail about how the mom is a tiger mom, but at the same time it pisses me off
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we hated each other.
(writer moves): shows how much she understands kids and is very humorous
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He was deaf.
(Clunk)How did the mom TALK to him and ask him for piano lessons then? This is kind of a huge plot-hole.
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because later on I had to learn how to play it.
(Clink) I find this line so funny.
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sauciness
I don't understand the meaning of this word(Clunk)?
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I had new thoughts, willful thoughts - or rather, thoughts filled with lots of won'ts. Iwon't let her change me, I promised myself.
(Click) I have had this feeling before and would love to add this to my journal.
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I was Cinderella stepping from herpumpkin carriage with sparkly cartoon music filling the air.
(Click) As a child I could relate to this feeling of wanting to grow up and become great
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with curly bangs that hung at a slant two inches above my eyebrows
(Clunk) I have really bad spatial awareness so I can't picture how bad this haircut is in my head
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You look like a Negro Chinese,"
(Click) Her mother isn't necessarily racist, but racism was most likely very normalized at the time of making this.
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docs.google.com docs.google.com
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Your story is what you have,
a click that could literally be the theme of every autobiography
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is it “angry” or “black” or “woman”?
a sassy click
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genius.com genius.com
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daisy
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