BORN A CRIME- 读书笔记

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PART 1 - 总括

阅读一本书，特别是传记类的书就好像走进别人的世界，去看看别人是怎么成长的，别人的喜怒哀乐，别人的世界观，非常有意思。本书作者的语言也是相当幽默，在不经意的故事里向我们描述了当时南非的种族隔离，宗教信仰，种族歧视，女性地位低下，家庭暴力等。

BORN A CRIME 这本主要分为3部分，在我的心里对这三部分的定义是：

PART 1 关于背景的描述，第一部分主要的主线感觉是母亲。

PART 2 是青春期的描述，义气的朋友，喜欢的女生。

PART 3 感觉描述的每一个故事对作者的人生而言都是一场转折。

读完全书，惊叹于作者母亲的人生观，教育观，世界观。一个超脱于时代的伟大女性。

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PART 2 - 细节

1， 重读篇章，发现第一章和最后一章呼应的地方

RUN- “She broke out in a huge smile and started laughing. I started laughing, too, and we stood there, this little boy and his mom, our arms and legs covered in blood and dirt, laughing together through the pain in the light of a petrol station on the side of the road in the middle of the night.”

My Mother's Life-“She broke out in a huge smile and started laughing. Through my tears, I started laughing, too. I was bawling my eyes out and laughing hysterically at the same time. We sat there and she squeezed my hand and we cracked each other up the way we always did, mother and son, laughing together through the pain in an intensive-care recovery room on a bright and sunny and beautiful day.”

第一章和最后一章对于作者的母亲而言都是经历了生死的劫难，两次的死里逃生，每次的结尾不是让人痛苦流涕的鸡汤，都是温暖的laugh，look on the bright side的教育的确深入作者的心灵。

2，父母是孩子最好的老师，的确。

The Second Girl - “People thought my mom was crazy. Ice rinks and drive-ins and suburbs, these things were izinto zabelungu—the things of white people. So many black people had internalized the logic of apartheid and made it their own. Why teach a black child white things? Neighbors and relatives used to pester my mom. “Why do all this? Why show him the world when he’s never going to leave the ghetto?”

“Because,” she would say, “even if he never leaves the ghetto, he will know that the ghetto is not the world. If that is all I accomplish, I’ve done enough.”

ture to her nature, 作者的母亲的确是一个反叛社会的人，不屈服于外界的枷锁，一个有着自己的宗教信仰，执拗，但是又如作者描述会为了自己爱的人付出自己的一切，对待Able也是如此。

3， 作者是一个很懂得利用环境的人，不管是多种语言的切换使用，又或许是作者的肤色让作者在很多方面都不同于常人，一切都是福祸相依。

Go Hitler!-“I worked as a middleman for Bolo and Andrew for a year. Then Bolo left school; the rumor was that his parents got arrested. From that point on I worked for Andrew, and then as he was about to matriculate he decided to quit the game. “Trevor,” he told me, “you’ve been a loyal partner.” And, as thanks, he bequeathed unto me his CD writer.”

读完整本书，感觉自己又和一个人交了朋友，但是直到观看影片之前，我一直把作者的童年环境带入的是我的生活环境，而且是我现在的生活环境，即使作者书中描述的不是那样。但是看到的影片那一幕，有被震撼到，原来是这个样子的，之后的感觉就是：

哦，这本书需要重新读了。

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题外话：读这本书的初衷是希望提高自己的阅读能力，认识单词的同时，去看一下真正的“英文”，也算是克服一下面对应试考试阅读 读一遍“完全没概念自己看的是什么的”恐惧。坚持了一个月，感觉收获的不只是这些，感恩。