Memoir project- Kara Clapper

The way Trevor Noah talked about his family and how important they were to him is something that I took inspiration from while writing my story. Throughout his whole story he talks about how much his mother loved him, like in chapter 6 when Trevor writes, “It was discipline in the form of love.” And again much later in the book he writes, “But it doesn’t always work, because you’re giving the kid tough love when maybe he just needs love.” (pg. 161) Although there is more background and depth behind these quotes they both have one thing in common, love. I think that closely relates to the culture of family. “That you can love a person you hate ,or hate a person you love.”(pg. 188) I think this quote holds a lot of truth when talking about any family. Nothing is perfect and sometimes it is hard to love them but in the end loving your family no matter what is so important. In Trevor Noah’s own vignettes he explored a sense of not knowing where he belonged even in his family, which is a truly hard feeling. I think an example of this in the book is when his grandmother hits his cousins and not him because he was half white, and again when he said, “I was an anomaly wherever we lived.”(pg. 84) Struggling to belong is a hard thing to go through and Trevor Noah explored this feeling a lot in his book which helped influence how I wrote my vignette. A huge thing Trevor Noah used in his vignettes to reach the reader was humor. Humor is never something I’ve really used in my writing, but one thing I did try to do like Trevor Noah was use lots of description. While reading his story it was almost like you were in the moment because of the way he described things. I took a lot of inspiration from this and I wanted my story to be something that people would read and feel like they were part of the moment while it happened. The culture of one’s family is a very complex thing to describe. I tried to add in little details, moments that may not seem important but would end up contributing to the reader being able to understand and get insight on how my family works. One of the main themes of our unit was Identity, and specifically what influences our identity. A huge thing that influences my identity is my family which is why I chose to write this specific story. My family makes me who I am, every part of my identity has been somehow shaped by my family. That is why I think that family is so important, they are constantly shaping and reshaping us. Family and identity seamlessly fit together, and I wanted to show that by writing this story a story of a normal night with my family.

Q2 benchmark Memoir project

Reselll

I Decided to write about this because it’s something I’m very involved in, reselling and the reselling community/culture. I wanted to give some perspective to what I spend countless hours working and what I’ll continue to work on. Trevor Noah’s story inspired me a lot, especially his writing style, how he talked in 3rd person but also had some parts in 1st person.The way trevor started out with not much at all, to literally being born a crime, now to being an extremely popular comedian was really motivating since i started reselling with $0.To this day that motivation is how I succeeded. I feel like my memoir addressed the question of what culture do you belong to, for me I belong to many just because of what I am but I choose to be a part of the reselling culture. I now own 3 companies and have built over 4 bots using javascript supporting multiple sites. This month I have made more money than the minimum wage job I’m not even old enough to get. I also now know various programming languages and skills that have opened up several early job opportunities for me. If you want to check out a few of my companies, you can find them here: Omni AIO: An all in one checkout tool supporting multiple sites Omni Notify: The best group that provides all the information you need to start reselling Omni Notify Proxies: The newest addition to Omni, to serve your botting needs

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