Starr Carter In The Hate U Give By Angie Thomas

In the novel written by Angie Thomas The Hate U Give we are presented with the main character Starr Carter who is drawn into activism after she witnesses the unjust police shooting and murder of her unarmed friend Khalil who was only pulled over for having a broken taillight. Khalil's death occurs in the first few pages of the book, but his presence stays and maintains throughout the novel. Starr is a sixteen-year-old African-American who resides in the most poor and black neighborhood of Garden Heights where she has experienced two traumatic events, the deaths of her two close friends. Regardless of the dangerous events she has experienced here in the hood of Garden Heights, her family has been living there their whole lives for explained

The looking glass self by Charles Cooley states that an individual’s self grows from society's interpersonal interactions and the perceptions of others and it happens in three steps. Step one in this thought process would be how do we appear to others and after the assassination of Khalil, Starr starts to behave differently. Hailey and Maya notice the difference and tell Starr that she's been acting different and they ask if she was friends with Khalil. Starr was afraid that Hailey and Maya will treat her differently if they knew the truth so she denies knowing Khalil. The second step to this thought process is what other might think of me. Like mentioned previously, she didn’t want her friends to start acting different with her, because the victim was her childhood best friend and she herself was involved in this whole mess with the cops. It wouldn’t had given her a good image she believed. Lastly, we revise how others think and view ourselves. The novel states, “... Williamson Starr doesn’t give anyone a reason to call her ghetto” (71). This whole thought process creates our self-image. One thing to point out is that Cooley mentioned is that we are not actually being influenced by the opinions of others, but instead we are being influenced by what we imagine the opinions and thoughts of others to