Question

For each of the following questions, provide a 2-3 paragraph response to the prompt. Be sure that your answers are accompanied with direct quotes from the text which support your response. As you write your answers, you may use the text or your study guide to assist you through the writing and/or analytical process, but no other sources are permissible.

In Born A Crime, Trevor Noah introduces many individuals who intentionally deceive others. The person's dishonesty may be intended either to help or hurt. Perhaps the decision to mislead comes from a place of personal gain (like Tom or Abel), protection (like in the jail scene), or to carry out a crime. Write a short essay in which you analyze the motives for that individual's deception and discuss how the deception contributes to the text as a whole. *

Answer 1

In the scene where Trevor is in the jail cell and the other people who were recently arrested everyone was trying to act tough in order to keep the others in the cell from trying anything. By putting up a fake façade and seeming like an actual in order to convince the others to keep to themselves. On his third day in jail one of the biggest people Trevor's ever seen is thrown in jail and he, along with everyone else in the cell, is scared of this guy. After Noah translates for the guy a bit because the cop does not speak the same language as him, he learns that the guy is actually pretty nice and was put in jail for shoplifting video games. The deception contributes to the story because it sorta uses the metaphorical phrase don't judge a book by its cover as a theme for this chapter.

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