A Character Analysis Of Starr Carter By Angie Thomas

Angie Thomas includes many characters in her novel, one specifically is Starr Carter. Starr can easily be considered a favorite character from the reader's perspective. Starr is a relatable teenager, who is just getting over witnessing the recent shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil. Whilst witnessing this trauma, she is also dealing with other external struggles. One example being, Starr’s dual existence from living between going to a white prep school, and the black neighborhood in which she lives in. One final example to why Starr would easily be a favorite character is how Khalil’s death When Starr, and Kahlil leave a party in Garden heights, they get pulled over by a cop. With both of them unarmed, Khalil gets taken out of the

Typically Starr keeps her weekdays private, she fears of being ridiculed for going to Williamson prep. Meanwhile, the kids at Starr’s school think she is cool just because she is one of the only black people there. “Im cool by default because I’m one of the only black kids there” (Thomas 11). Although many of Starr’s peers in school may see Starr as cool, she often feels judged and out of place. One of Starr’s best friends Kenya, thinks Starr is stuck up for going to Williamson, she also believes that Starr’s friends are only visible for a few seconds and that they don't actually count as friends. “Them li’l bougie girls from your school don’t count.” “They’re not bougie, and they do count” (Thomas 7). Also During this time, Starr is in her first relationship with a white boy from Williamson prep named Chris. Starr hides Chris from her father Big Mav, because he believes that anytime that a black person is with a white person, then suddenly something’s wrong with them, and Starr does not want her father to look at her that way. Again, given from Starr’s experience from school, many people can feel the same, or may be dealing with some of the same circumstances. People who may not be in the exact situations as Starr, can relate from her earlier explanation of feeling judged or out of place, which can make people relate to Starr,

At first Starr is a quiet, and the type of person to keep stuff to herself, all of that changes after Khalil’s death. The aftermath of Khalil’s death was very active, all Starr’s outrage, and shock was extremely notable. Starr’s anger is mainly targeted towards Starr and Khalil’s family not getting justice, and the image media is portraying of Khalil. The media refers to him as a drug dealer, and a thug as if they is trying to rationalize the police officer’s actions. Starr obviously is angry by the statements because Khalil and Starr have been best friends since they were kids. With everyone making up false accusations and defaming Khalil, people start to wonder what actually happened. When Starr is interrogated at the police station, Starr tells them exactly what happened, not once during the interrogation did the detectives ask about the police officer that shot Khalil. All of their questions were geared towards Khalil’s personal life, if he was in any gangs, did he sell any drugs, or if he was intoxicated while pulled over. Irritated, Starr’s mother interrupts the detective, because she thinks that they detectives are defending the police officer. “Whoa, wait a second.” momma says. “Are y’all putting Khalil and Starr on trial or the cop who killed him?” (Thomas