The Smell of Apples” exposes the racist ideologies that sustained apartheid, but the realities of apartheid are mostly obscured due to the limited perspective of Behr’s eleven-year-old narrator. Consequently, readers can walk away from this novel with a better understanding of how racism is disseminated yet still feel uninformed about what it was like to be black or coloured during the apartheid years. This research paper is design to fill that void. You will immerse yourself in first-hand accounts that show what it was like to live under the oppressive apartheid regime. sources: The Smell of Apples Forced to Grow by Sindiwe Magona Trevor Noah’s Born a Crime “The Case of Africa’s White Tribe” online article Holloway, John E. “Apartheid.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and social science.(JSTOR)