On Punishment and Teen killers In the fiction article “ On Punishment and Teen Killers” Jennifer Jenkins argues and reviews the position that the author has according debate about teens and crimes. She believes that a lot of teenager committed have serious crime. She’s also, argues that development brain are not reason for crime. She is also against advocates that are against the JLWOP.which means Juvenile Life Without Parole, At the beginning of the article she was youngest sister and her husband murdered in Chicago, offender who testified at his trial “ thrill kill” that he just want to “ see what it would feel like to shoot someone”.
Everyone is different. We all have our own personalities and we all take different directions in our lives. People often find themselves lost in this giant world and feel as if they can't share what they are truly thinking or feeling. They hide their personalities and shield themselves from the people of the world, and the quote "Character is what you in the dark." all the more true.
“The Hate U Give” By Angie Thomas showcases Starr Carter’s struggle to find her voice and speak out after her childhood friend, Khalil Harris, was murdered at the hands of the police. In the beginning she is afaid to speak out, and tell people what really happened that night, but with support from her family and friends she finds her courage and promises never to be silent again. In chapter sixteen Starr is doing an anonymous interview on a national news program. Her attorney, Ms. Ofrah, told her that she needs to fight with her voice.
In Hate List by Jennifer Brown, readers learn about a girl who went through a tragic experience. The girl's name is Valerie and she had a boyfriend named Nick. Nick and Valerie were walking through the commons in school like they always did when Nick pulled a gun out and started to shoot kids on the “Hate list”. Valerie tried stopping Nick, except he wouldn't listen so she jumped in front of a bullet and when he saw he shot her he turned the gun on himself. But what really keeps the readers interested is that Brown uses quotes to set up a problem.
“People Like Us” by David Brooks is an article written for people who do not care about diversity. The article talks about how people really are not as diverse as they think they are. People like to be around people who a similar to them in most ways. Brooks ideal audience is white people who live in neighborhoods this can be seen by looking at how he talks about diversity. David Brooks says that “In fact, evidence suggest that some neighborhoods become more segregated over time.”
On The Come Up was written by Angie Thomas, the author who also wrote The Hate You Give. Angie writes books that give people an inside look at what black people experience in real-time. She uses the storyline to show and express that the people who experience these things are human and deal with things just as much as the next person. Not only do her books paint the lives of minorities, they also paint some of the issues teens face daily.
“The Hate U Give” is a young adult fiction novel by Angie Thomas and it is 444 pages long. I chose this climactic novel because I was looking for a book that would be relevant to today's current events and would contain two diverse perspectives and nationalities. As a member of the “read once a year club” my preconception of any novel is that it will probably be boring and watching a movie would be easier. However, from reading the first page, the authors sensational first person style of writing got me hooked and drew me in to read the whole novel within four days. Thomas writes as if she’s inside the mind of a black teenager, with her use of accurate teen lingo and slang.
Anderson claims that white people have more power in society and because of this, minorities are forced to take it upon the streets. Anderson wants the reader to understand that white people, especially white males, have more power than other races because in our society the reader sees powerful men everyday such as lawyers, policemen, judges, CEO's ,and etc. The reader doesn't see many minority's as high power people. When the author states that “...white rage carries an aura of respectability and has access to the courts, police, legislatures and governors,...” the reader can infers that white people are perceived as higher roles in our society and that the minority's rage carries a aura of disrespect and leads to violence. This allows white people to to be heard easily because of how they are seen in society by other white people, but for minority's they struggle to be heard because nobody pays attention to them because society feels that this is an ongoing issue.
What is the right thing to do? Ellie Wiesel believes people should do the right thing, but more importantly these should choose a side. Indifference is worse than anger, rage, and hatred as Ellie said, “Anger can at times be creative. One writes a great poem, a great symphony, have done something special for the sake of humanity because one is angry at the injustice that one witnesses”(Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference). With indifference people are only punishing the victim and helping to achieve the goal of the unrighteous.
People often change their behavior to accommodate different settings and people, however, it is important for one to be themselves. Angie Thomas’ novel “The Hate U Give” explores themes of identity, social expectations, and the struggle to find one’s voice. These themes are illustrated through the character of Starr Carter, where she struggles with her two starkly different worlds: Williamson, the predominantly white suburban school, and Garden Heights, Starr’s predominantly black neighborhood. As Starr navigates through these two conflicting identities, she faces numerous challenges that change her perspective of her own self and the world around her. In Angie Thomas’ novel “The Hate U Give,” the similarities and contrasting experiences of
Angela Morales writes about her life story in The Girls in My Town which contain a series of autobiographical essays. These essays contain themes that can be observed through her comprehensive writing. She explores the effects that people had on her as she grew up. More notoriously she talks about how her parents and the violence that followed her affect the way in which she treated her own children. Morales learned about what it means to be a mother and decided that she would take the right path in being a “great parent”.
Young adult literature such as The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, emphasizes teenagers using both their actions and their voices to overcome false accusations from both the media and negative perceptions. Racial inequality and police brutality are discussed greatly throughout The Hate U Give, due to the difficulties the protagonist, Starr Carter, endures when her best friend, Khalil, is killed because of the assumptions made by a police officer who categorized him as being a threat since his skin color was black. Starr receives the confidence in speaking out against what the media had broadcasted in response to Khalil’s murder by overcoming obstacles that revolve around her race and the environment she was raised in. Uniquely, the author, Laura
Starr Carter, the protagonist of Angie Thomas’s young adult novel, The Hate U Give, epitomizes the subversion of cultural racial oppression through the development of an identity that encompasses multiple consciousnesses. As an African American teenage girl raised in a middle-class family attending a high school with primarily White upper-class students, Starr finds the need to prove her belongingness to both communities in Garden Heights and at Williamson Prep. Unlike her White upper-class counterparts at Williamson and African American middle-to-low-class counterparts in Garden Heights, Starr’s identity is multifaceted. She must act and interact with her peers with respect to her location, in other words, utilize double consciousness. However,
TKAM showed deep racial prejudice and emphasized the need for justice and equality. “The Hate U Give” showed the challenges faced by African Americans in this century. The novel addresses the issues of police brutality and racism. The book follows a young girl who is fighting for justice for her murdered best friend, Khalil. You can learn the impact of activism by reading this book and how a community can come together to fight for justice.
You try to say something, but nothing comes out. You feel horrible and want to yell at everyone but can't. You risk your life for speaking out and so begins your search for justice. “The hate u give” is a novel written by Angie Thomas. Our main character is Starr Carter, a 16-year-old black girl who had just witnessed the death of her closest and best friend, Khalil.
