Memoir project

In my memoir vignette I wanted to focus on my family because I liked how things like family and relationships were such a large influence that Trevor focused on in Born a Crime. I feel like my family has been a major part of shaping who I am and what my identity is and Trevor’s writing about how he feels his identity was shaped by family really made me think about how I have been shaped by others around me and what that means to me as a person. When writing I wanted to focus on my aunt and my relationship with her, my grandma, and our religion because that has been a big influence to me. I also thought back to my Catholicism when Trevor Noah talked about his faith in Born a Crime. My parents have always been practicing Catholics, but my grandma and her siblings were always very devout Catholics. I focused on that a bit in the vignette because it is still a part of my grandma’s life and I’ve observed she really depends on her relationship with God, especially since she can’t see anyone during these times and because my aunt’s death was a major thing that changed her as a person. She was extremely close with my aunt and I’d say she was affected by her death more than anyone else's. I focused on the relationship between my aunt and my grandma in the vignette because I feel like when I was younger I was very detached from them both. I look back now and reflect on a lot my aunt told me and I wish I could’ve been more observant and actually learned from her. A lot of what she said to me has become relevant advice and I wish I actually learned from her and my grandma’s discussions and advice.