Trevor Noah Metaphors

Trevor Noah is a clever writer and wives different writing devices throughout his stories. He uses satire, symbolism, and metaphors to convey his message to the reader. When Trevor is talking about Soweto and his experiences being there, he uses subtle symbolism to reveal the story of hope and faith the people there have. He talks about the driveways everyone has on their properties. The strange part is, that no one owns a car to use it, “I never understood why my grandmother had a driveway. She didn’t have a car. She didn’t know how to drive. Yet she had a driveway. All of our neighbors had driveways, some with fancy, cast-iron gates. None of them had cars, either. There was no future in which most of these families would ever have cars. There was maybe one car for every thousand people,

A metaphor twists words to use as referral of another subject. Trevor has many examples of this throughout his book. In his conversations about poverty, he references the hood as a comfortable place. But poverty can cause may stress as one barley scraps enough together to pay the bills. Everyone is barley getting by and live a repetitive lifestyle which gives people a feeling on comfort, “The hood was strangely comforting, but comfort can be dangerous. Comfort provides a floor but also a ceiling.” (Noah 154 online) It is impossible to escape the poverty cycle and move up in the classes without the skills and education needed, “People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.” (Noah 190 online) If people stuck in the lower class were given the opportunity to learn and get an education, then they would be able to move up in the classes. The poverty cycle continues going on forever. Go to work, get paid, pay the bill,