“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 the book The Hate You Give" by Angie Thomas, pages 420–444 are about Starr, King, and Maverick,Hailey. They just got done protesting after the grand jury did not put the cop on trial for killing Kahlil. While Starr was protesting, looters started destroying all the shops in the neighborhood, including her dad’s shop. (419) This caused King to be arrested because the neighborhood teamed up blaming King for burning down Maverick's shop.
In The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, Starr learns to accept herself, accept her community and to use her voice to promote justice in the world due to the relationships she has with others. Furthermore, Starr struggles to be her true self anywhere she is, in Garden Heights she is one person and in Williamson she is another but her boyfriend, Chris, helps her with this. He makes her feel comfortable enough to just be Starr around him since they met, “Ever since, I don’t have to decide which Starr I have to be with him. He likes both” (Thomas 83). Evidently, her relationship with Chris helps her to accept and be who she is because he is the first person that she feels totally comfortable with.
“The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas is a gritty, in-your-face novel that perfectly describes what it’s like to be in the middle of a social justice movement. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter’s life is flipped upside down when she witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil by a cop. She suddenly finds herself living a double life, where at home she advocates for the Black Lives Matter movement and at school, she fights to be seen as normal despite being one of the only black students in a mostly-white school. A major theme throughout the book is identity. Starr finds herself balanced between two worlds, privilege and poverty, unable to make the leap into either one.
Netanya Dorlus Dr. Heyward SO121-SU23 – Intro to Sociology 3 August 2023 Hate U Give Film Analysis: Racism and Identity The young-adult-turned-feature film, The Hate U Give, adapted from the novel by Angie Thomas, explores the issues of inequality and race/ethnicity in a thought-provoking and impactful manner. The film centers around the story of Starr Carter, a Black teenager who navigates an often divided and racially charged society. She uses this film to open the door to explore the nature of identity while diving deep into the conflicts of racism, police brutality, culture, and community within the life of a colored individual living in America. These aspects of the film resonate deeply with those who can connect with it, highlighting
Fiction is needed to develop other forms of thinking and to expand creativity. Fiction novels could help students view things from different perspectives. It may help us in a similar situation from the book for example,in the book “The hate u give “ by Angie Thomas there is a situation with police brutality and the way he handled it can inspire others to do the same or we could see where it went wrong and not do that. A young African American male is shot and killed by a white policeman. Garden Heights residents come together in the face of unspeakable tragedy which reflects the strong sense of community felt by those who live in Garden Heights.
In a world where police brutality is no new subject for many, there are often numerous debates about police brutality and racial profiling. The Hate U Give tells the story of Starr Carter, how she witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood friend Khalil (who was unarmed), at the hands of a white police officer (who ‘mistook’ Khalil’s hairbrush for a gun), and how Starr has to deal with her two worlds at once. The themes mainly explored in this book are: racism, police violence, and activism against social injustice. Throughout the novel, author Angie Thomas also talks about excessive force and biased assumptions made by police officers, as well as the criminalization of black communities as a whole. Throughout the novel, author Angie Thomas does a magnificent job of explaining both her personal perspective, Starr’s perspective, and the perspective of everyone who has
In Angie Thomas's novel "The Hate U Give," the characters of Starr Carter and Kenisha Green demonstrate different critical lenses, with Starr embodying the lens of the "ethnocentric" and Kenisha representing the lens of the "cultural relativist." These differing perspectives ultimately impact the narrative by highlighting the complexities of the Black Lives Matter movement and the need for empathy and understanding in the fight for justice. The novel "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas tells the story of Starr Carter, a 16-year-old girl who witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. The novel deals with themes of racial injustice, police brutality, and activism and are based on the Black Lives Matter
Echoes of Justice According to NBC News black Americans are 3.23 times more likely than white Americans to be killed by police, only 14.2% of the population in America is black making up 27% of all deaths caused by police brutality. These statistics are exemplified in the novel The Hate you Give by Angie Thomas talks about the story of Starr and how she changes throughout the story and how she earns her confidence on how to speak out against police brutality. The ideas in The Hate U Give connect to our world today through the article “How BLM Went From a Hashtag to a Global Rallying Cry” by Leah Asmelash and the other article “Homeroom” a Hulu documentary. We need to advocate and fight for change because people of color aren't treated subsequently.
In the novel The Hate U Give written by Angie Thomas, The main character Starr struggles with speaking out about the death of her childhood friend Khalil due to threats from gangs, police, and not wanting to betray her community. The novel is mostly about the crooked shooting of Khalil by a police officer, and how Starr reacts. Throughout this book, Starr deals with fear of speaking out about her friend’s death and what really happened the night of the crime. One of the biggest reasons for Starr's fearfulness of speaking out about the death of Khalil is because of the gangs within the community she lives in.
JHG states, “I wonder how she would feel if she learned that the Negro before whom she has behaved in such an unladylike manner was habitually a white man” (51). This is not how any human being should ever have to be treated. No matter who you are or what you do, everyone should be treated as equal persons. In the story Blink, a police shooting is told in much detail, whether than how it is told by media.
When is it okay to question the authority of law enforcement? We learn from a young age that cops are supposed to be the ones we run to for help, and yet we’re constantly finding them being involved in a routine stop gone wrong. We constantly hear about the different times an African American person has lost their life after they were pulled over by a police officer. The novel turned movie ‘The Hate U Give’ by Angie Thomas helps portray an ounce of what families go through when they lose their loved ones to racial injustices. Losing a loved one will always be life altering especially when you learn that they were killed by a police officer.
The Hate You Give written by Angie Thomas was inspired by a lifetime of events, but the death of Oscar Grant was what prompted Thomas to write her novel. Thomas lived in a poor, black community in Jackson, Mississippi, and was exposed to and witnessed violence on several occasions throughout her young life. She first heard the news of the death of Grant while she was attending a predominantly white university in Jackson where many students made assumptions that Grant was automatically at fault or involved with gangs or drugs. From this event, Thomas realized that the world needed to hear what she had to say in The Hate You Give. Grant 's death by police wasn 't the first nor the last that lead to a community uprising.
In The Hate U Give, Starr Cater witnesses her friend, Khalil getting shot by a white police officer, however, Khalil did nothing wrong and showed no violence. This action was a sign of racism because the police officer
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.
