The True Meaning Of A Relationship In Born A Crime By Trevor Noah

The True Meaning of a Relationship “You do not own the thing you love” (Noah 100). As a mixed-race boy in South Africa, Trevor Noah learns to navigate life's lessons at a young age. Although his experiences were greatly benefited because of his fearless, unconventional mother, the basis of a relationship cannot be taught without a true encounter. With having two dogs, Trevor learns a valuable lesson about betrayal that serve him in his adulthood. In “Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah, he learns that possessiveness is not good in a relationship through his having a dog and it has a positive effect on his life because he knows how to deal with relationships. Trevor learns what it means to be in a relationship through Fufi, his first dog. Fufi was a foolish, playful dog

He explains how he could support his friends that “wrestle with feelings of betrayal” and come crying to him about “how they’ve been cheated on and lied to” because he could understand their situation and help them move on (100). He also quickly understands how to come through with this sort of betrayal in his first pursuit of a relationship. “Some part of me said, ‘Well, this makes sense.’ Lorenzo was everything I wasn’t...I stood no chance. As devastated as I was, I understood why Maylene made the choice that she did. I would have picked Lorenzo over me, too,” Noah said, when he’d asked out his first girlfriend in primary school (133). This was a useful lesson he learned because he got through his shortcomings without complete misery. Trevor learns from Fufi that it is important to consider another person’s perspective, which positively impacts him because he develops the ability to subdue betrayal. Trevor Noah has learned a valuable lesson in life. A lesson that shapes his ideas about relationships for the rest of his life (100).