Life Lines

In Part III of The Dance, Trevor Noah is at a dance where his friend, Tom. Tom made Trevor get on a stage and rap because he had told the crowd that he brought an American rapper. None of the crowd spoke English, so he did his friend a favor. Even though he knew none of the lyrics, he did it for his friend.A true friend will do anything for his friends, no matter how embarrassing. Young Trevor Noah reminds me of me now. I have very crazy and funny friends. On numerous occasions I have been brought to the spot light in order to have my friends back. I had a Track meet one time and one of my friends had a predicament. Let me say all of my friends are good, nice, warm hearted guys. We just make mistakes here and there.I have a friend that has saved me from numerous bad situations ,and I owe him many favors for that. So one of my friends was talking to two girls at the same time. Both of them happened to be at the track meet. My friend, let’s call him Peter. Peter was already chatting with one of them, and the other girl he was talking to was going to turn the corner. I had just ran a 400 and a 200 back-to-back. I was very tired, but I saw Peters life flash in his eyes- I knew I had to do something. So I started talking to the girl so she wouldn’t see Peter, and so Peter could slowly walk away. The original girl happened to say his name and the second girl decided to turn around. Now in this part of the story isn’t one of my best moments, but I don’t regret doing it for my best friend. I threw up. It distracted the second girl in order to save my friend from ruining his reputation as a nice girl. I embarrassed myself in order to pay a favor to myself, like Trevor. My favorite quotes from Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime are: “This is my country. Why should I leave?” (Noah 31) , “He loved the ladies, and the ladies loved him” (Noah 35) ,” I chose to have you because I wanted something to love and something that would love me unconditionally in return” (Noah 63). All of the quotes are from the beginning of the book because he talks the most about his mother and what he learned from her in the beginning. The last quote is my favorite because it just shows who is mother is, and how she functions. She just wanted something to love for the rest of her life.