Analysis Of The Hate U Give By Angie Thomas

“I look at books as being a form of activism because a lot of times they’ll show us a side of the world that we may not have known about” (Angie Thomas). Fiction is not castles, and dragons that are slayed by knights anymore; as children become young adolescents the stories that nurtured their innocence matures and starts to question societal issues. “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas talked about the racial injustice and police brutality that specifically African-Americans face in their day-to-day life. Starr, a main character, witness her childhood friend, Khalil, get murdered by a white policemen who pulled them over for a broken taillight and later shot Khalil in the back 3 times because he “feared for his life”. Angie Thomas not only explained

“‘Everybody wants to talk about how Khalil died,’ I say. ‘But this isn’t about how Khalil died. It’s about the fact that he lived. His life mattered. Khalil lived!’ I looked at the cops again. ‘You hear me? Khalil lived!’” (Starr, p. 412). Khalil, the main fictional character, was just one of millions who have been murdered, assaulted, stalked by the same law enforcement that took the oath to protect the streets of America, NOT just WHITE America. America is a two-faced country that has the tendency to cover up the truth, when reading novels like “The Hate U Give” it actually shows what it’s like to live in the era where racism and fear is more upcoming and normalized. "People are interested in escape," says Carol Fitzgerald of the Book Report Network. "In a number of pages, the story will open, evolve and close, and a lot of what's going on in the world today is not like that. You've got this encapsulated escape that you can enjoy"(Psychology Today). An escape from the world of today into another makes the thought of leaving things behind not so bad. To others, fiction is just for children, that the only truth and knowledge anyone will learn from is through science nothing but biographies based on true events. Most of those books never talk about the real concepts, the way to handle family

Novels are teachers, without the pay or person they give access to higher knowledge this is what we need to learn it’s what we should be learning. School is the learning zone but it has never taught me about how “In 2010, Arizona passed an immigration law commonly called “show me your papers.” It allowed law enforcement officers to check the immigration status of anyone they stopped. ” (Police Brutality and Race), district people want to take out fiction calling it useless but won’t teach teens the laws of the U.S. Where America is seen as the miracle country it has been the biggest influences for racial profiling, “when slavery was made illegal, some vigilante groups formed to maintain the racial divide...enforced segregation laws”(Police Brutality and Race), divide for their own good, only good for the whites who didn’t endure hardship like the people of color, yet the district takes it away calling it useless. The whole systematic law is phony they don’t want the truth they want it covered up “Fifteen minutes later, I leave the police station with my mom. Both of us know the same thing: This is gonna be some bullshit.”(Starr, p. 103), they twist words around to make them seem like angles. The school board can try to take away the fiction novels, but when the reading and testing scores come back low it’s