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Analysis Of Angie Thomas 'The Hate U Give'

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Image being a six-year-old girl running away from the crossfire between drug dealers. That is exactly what Angie Thomas, the author of The Hate U Give had to experience at such a fragile age. Worried, her mom took her to the library to show her that the world was bigger than what she had experienced. This started Angie on the path to loving literature. Angie grew up poor in a predominantly black community, and for this reason, the life of the protagonist of the novel, Starr reflects her childhood. She spent her college years at a majority white university. During this time, the story of Oscar Grant, an unarmed black man of just 22 years killed by police officers, emerged. Angie heard the news and became enraged. It was in that year, 2009,
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