Imagine witnessing your childhood best friend innocently getting killed by a police officer in front of your eyes for no legal reason and not getting punished for it . Angie thomas’ fictional book, The hate you give about two characters named starr and khali , who were inspired by real life police brutality. In an interview Angie Thomas explained why she wrote about police violence.
In this novel the main character starr carter lives a double life . Starr tries to balance her two lives but that all changes when she witnesses her innocent childhood best friend get murdered by a police officer for no legal reason. Starr is the only black girl at an all white prep school , and lives in a poor black neighborhood. Starr shows her struggles living in both life and what she has to go through . “ When I was twelve , my parents had two talks with me, one the usual birds and
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In chapter 13 a character DeVante says “nobody likes to sell drugs “ devante expresses how drug dealers are just trying to survive and how he never wanted to get into the life of crime. Starr was angry at Khalil for selling drugs , she didn't get how he could do that after his mothers addiction took her. It takes DeVante, a self described “ thug” to make starr realize why khalil got into that , khalil had no other choice there was no high paying jobs to repay the money his mother stole from the king. In this chapter Starr describes how speaking with DeVante made it clear to her why Khalil did what he had to. The media is quick to judge before even knowing any details because all they see is the color of khalil's skin color nothing else matters. On live television, Officer one fifteen's dad explains how his son felt threatened and made false accusations against khalil. This shows how the media put out that khalil was selling drugs and made it seem like him being killed was a good thing