Trevor Noah is a comedian and Daily Show host, but also comes from a mixed race son of a Swiss father and a Black South African mother. In 2016, Trevor Noah wrote a memoir about growing up during the South African apartheid: system of racial classifications and discrimination that happened during 1948 to the late 1990s. Noah came from a household that gave "tough love" to show the readers the harsh realities of life and to convince us to not judge our parents. The autobiographical account is successful by presenting multiple rhetorical devices, such as pathos as Noah is trying to convey empathy, hyperboles to provide his point, and the how the diction provides a deeper meaning to the narrative. One way, Trevor Noah blends the idea of convincing