ipl-logo

Chapter 11 Important Quotes

917 Words4 Pages

CHAPTER 1 Themes: Racism, police brutality, code-switching, identity Connection: The protagonist, Starr, is introduced as a character who feels like she has to change her behavior and language depending on the situation, highlighting the theme of code-switching. Significant quote: "Funny how it works with white kids though. It's dope to be black until it's hard to be black" (p8) CHAPTER 2 Themes: Community, friendship, identity Connection: Starr's interactions with her friends and family show the importance of community and friendship in her life, and the struggles she faces with balancing her identity as a black person from a predominantly black neighborhood and as a student at a primarily white school. Significant quote: "That's the problem. …show more content…

Significant quote: "I didn't know a dead person could be charged with anything" (p. 28) CHAPTER 4 Themes: family Connection: Starr's interactions with her family and community show how her identity is shaped by the people and places around her, and the importance of family and community support. Significant quote: "If you don't see my blackness, you don't see me" (p. 37) CHAPTER 5 Themes: Racism, stereotypes Connection: Starr confronts the stereotypes and racism present in her predominantly white school, and the pressure she feels to conform to those stereotypes to fit in. Significant quote: "I'm not ghetto. I'm Starr. If you don't see that, you don't know me" (p. 47) CHAPTER 6 Themes: family, grief Connection: Starr's grief over Khalil's death and her struggle to process her emotions highlight the importance of family support and the impact of trauma on personal identity. Significant quote: "I never really knew a dead person could be a ghost, but I was learning" (p. …show more content…

Significant quote: "We live in a complicated world. You gotta be careful who you're following" (p. 74) CHAPTER 8 Themes: Racism, stereotypes, identity Connection: Starr confronts the racism and stereotypes present in her white boyfriend's family, highlighting the difficulty of navigating interracial relationships and the impact of systemic racism on personal relationships. Significant quote: "I don't want to hear about 'All Lives Matter.' This ain't about that. This is about us" (p. 84) CHAPTER 9 Themes: Police brutality, activism, community Connection: Starr attends a rally and witnesses the power of community activism and solidarity in response to police brutality and systemic racism. Significant quote: "We need to be out here stressing that our lives matter" (p. 101) CHAPTER 10 Themes: grief Connection: Starr's struggle to process her grief over Khalil's death and her personal identity is highlighted by her interactions with her family and community. Significant quote: "Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right" (p. 125) CHAPTER

Show More
Related
1329 Words | 6 Pages

(Thomas 71) The fact that Starr has two personalities demonstrates that she cannot express herself when in school and cannot relate to her friends; this proves that her friends do not influence her and disproves Harris’s theory that, "peers trump parents” CITATION. On the other hand, Starr’s parents teach her many life lessons which eventually push her to get justice for Khalil (her friend who had a hairbrush ‘mistaken” for a gun). For example, when Starr and her father are talking about the oppression that African-Americans have experienced over the years, he points out,, "Drugs come from somewhere, and they’re destroying our community,... The [addicts] can’t get jobs unless they’re clean, and they can’t pay for rehab unless they got jobs.

Read More
601 Words | 3 Pages

One of the main events that spur the action of the novel is the killing of Khalil harris, Starrs unarmed black friend, by a white police officer. This moment of police brutality is a part of a larger picture of racism and the criminalization of black communities in America as a whole. A quote that caught my attention states “What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be”. Police brutality is portrayed when Starrs friend Khalil is killed by a police officer as I state in the paragraph above. Police brutality is such a reality in Starrs world that her parents maverick and lisa talk to starr and her brothers seven and sekani about what to do when a cop pulls you over and what to say.

Read More
830 Words | 4 Pages

TKM Theme Essay Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird takes place during the Great Depression in the small town of Maycomb in Alabama. Scout and Jem live in what they think is a good community. From what they know, everyone fits into the community except Boo Radley, a mysterious neighbor. They think this until the trial of Tom Robinson, an African American that is accused a raping a white women, takes place. The kids see something they have never noticed about their community before.

Read More
563 Words | 3 Pages

The first section deals with hard headed African American women. Using prominent historical figures like Rosa Parks and Condoleezza Rice to help push the narrative along. The first poem in the section was “Red Velvet” in which she narrates the struggle of one one seamstress that became an important figurehead of a movement. She goes from there to poems about victims of hurricane Katrina in “Left” and finishing off the section with some choice words about George W. Bush in “Plunder” and one of the people under his command in the “Condoleezza Suite”. all the poems in this section

Read More
2074 Words | 9 Pages

The constant shifting between lives has caused a rift in Starr's life, creating a sense of conflict within herself and her identity. In the first few minutes of the film, we listen as Starr describes her need to separate her true self from the version she presents to her white peers as she code-switches to prevent herself from being seen as "too hood", and suppresses aspects of her identity to prevent being discriminated against. Acts like this are created due to the pressure of assimilation, which is a survival tactic among many racial-ethnic minority group members. Although it causes the individual to become less authentic, it helps them become one with the crowd, which can be seen with Starr as we observe her changes within the film. However, this battle with her identity is not only shown at school but when she returns home.

Read More
1385 Words | 6 Pages

In the book, there are significant racial tensions and racial divisions in society. Young Black women like Lauren, the primary character, must find their way in a society where they face prejudice and marginalization. In the story, racism is shown as a persistent menace in a society where one's character or aptitudes are more often evaluated than the color of one's skin. Unfortunately, this is a problem that persists in modern culture. The work emphasizes the consequences of institutionalized racism, which persists today.

Read More
654 Words | 3 Pages

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

Read More
1145 Words | 5 Pages

Specifically, Starr's ethnocentric lens highlights the need for empathy and understanding in the fight for justice, while Kenosha's cultural relativist lens highlights the complexities of the Black Lives Matter movement. The novel demonstrates the importance of listening to and understanding different perspectives in the fight for

Read More
866 Words | 4 Pages

Throughout this novel, Starr's experiences of housing segregation, police brutality, and

Read More
1108 Words | 5 Pages

Starr's family initially has doubts about her relationship with Chris, but eventually comes around to it, showing how crucial family acceptance is in challenging stereotypes about interracial relationships: Chris says “How about we split up, two of us stay here while two of us go get some gas” (Thomas Page 405). Chris shows concern for Starr's family's worries by suggesting a suitable solution to their gas shortage. This demonstrates his commitment to improving the family dynamic and promoting comfort and understanding. His small gesture reflects his character and his desire to help the family overcome initial doubts and develop trust through family-related involvement, which is crucial in challenging stereotypes and assumptions in interracial relationships. Friends and community members provide Starr and Chris encouragement and positive reinforcement, which emphasizes the importance of societal support in creating a supportive environment for interracial couples: Lisa says “Chris baby have you been here all night, you do realize your in the hood right” Chris replies “Yes ma'am”

Read More
896 Words | 4 Pages

In this novel, Starr is constantly reminded about speaking out against the police officers and the gangs running in the neighborhood.

Read More
716 Words | 3 Pages

One thing that is very apparent is the racism in that day and age and especially in that town where you see the children starting to realize and cope with it, but not being able to fully understand it. The same idea is still used world-wide and is almost an oath to the youth to protect them until they're ready for the truth, but you can't hide it forever. The first example of this would be when in chapter nine when narrates, “[Cecil Jacobs] made me forget. He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch’s

Read More
1381 Words | 6 Pages

The book challenges Americans and how they treat American Values. The book exposed the truth of the white race and how they treated the black race. Throughout the novel white Americans did not value equality or progress and change. In Black Like Me whites did not believe in having a society the ideally treats everyone equally. When John Howard Griffin gets a ride from a white hunter, he tells him “I’ll tell you how it is here.

Read More
1872 Words | 8 Pages

Starr finds herself caught between a delicate balancing act; using slang but not too much, carefully selecting her words and tone (code switching) to avoid being seen as a stereotypical “sassy black girl.” Starr is constantly on a tightrope walk, because she has to balance the authenticity and self-expression of herself, which can be destroyed by social expectations and stereotypes of how she should act or behave. Moreover, this struggle reveals the deeper significance of Garden Heights as a microcosm of a larger society. It mirrors the idea of greater powers taking over and making minorities conform, and there are many examples of this throughout history, a major one being abhorrent slavery of African American peoples. However, all that being said, some members of the Garden Heights community stand with Starr and when she is about to go on trial one of her neighbors states “All right now.”

Read More
1155 Words | 5 Pages

Williamson Starr holds her tongue when people piss her off so nobody will think she’s the ‘angry black girl.’ Williamson Starr is approachable… Williamson Star is nonconfrontational. Basically, Williamson Star doesn’t give any reason to call her ghetto” (71). Rather than internalizing the racism, she acknowledges the racial stereotypes and sacrifices the expression of her cultural background and unified identity to achieve inclusion and disprove the notion that all African Americans act a certain way.

Read More

More about Chapter 11 Important Quotes

Open Document