Character Analysis Of Trevor Noah In The Book 'As The Outsider'

Imagine a moment when you witness a little boy's curiosity and confusion spike. He's standing in the lunchroom unsure of where to go- the white kids were sitting in a different group then the black kids. For the first time, he truly realized he wasn't one or another, and no one was calling his name because they didn't know which he belonged to. Imagine the remarks he got because each one of those groups didn't know if he was one of them. Unfortunately, even the boy didn't know what he characterized himself as. This is how Trevor Noah described feeling in the book Born A Crime. Trevor Noah in the book “As the Outsider, can retreat into a shell, be anonymous, and be invisible. Or you can go the other way. You protect yourself by opening up. You don’t ask to be accepted for everything you are, just the one part of yourself that you’re willing to share.” (page 141)”.

On the news site, TIME it gives a personal experience from Justin Tsui, “March 13 when a man stood behind him and started coughing and spitting on him. “I was shocked more than angry,” Choi says. “ Why would he do that?”. The personal experience that was shared, gives people who haven't experienced it in the way American Asians have an insight into what it was for them during covid. The treatment caused a worldwide spread of feeling like they didn't belong or that they weren't accepted where they were. Trevor in Born Of Crime mentions how he “wasn’t popular but I wasn’t an outcast. I was everywhere with everybody, and at the same time I was all by myself.”(page). This described Trevor's experience as a child growing up as a mixed kid in a school that had friend groups solely on social class and race. Both quotes help demonstrate the feeling of not fitting into the environment around them. They help readers understand from an outside perspective how they feel being judged constantly just based on their