In many stories, the character will go through problems that change their perspective on life. This is especially true in the story “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas. Throughout this story, the main character goes through many different challenges following the death of her childhood best friend Khalil. After his death, she had to go in front of many people and try to convince them that the officer was wrong and that she can be trusted. Another issue was that in her school she treated herself differently because she was black. She also had to deal with pressure in her neighborhood and had to move. After Khalil died, April Ofrah had to convince her to testify and come out about Khalil. This affected her throughout the story because she had to step outside of her comfort zone. In chapter five of the book she says “I’m supposed to talk to the detectives, I’m crying out of nowhere, hunched over my bed” and “Just thinking about going into …show more content…
In the book when she is in Williamson she feels she can not be her normal self like she is in Garden Heights. Her boyfriend had to pressure her into being more like herself because she kept complaining that she couldn’t be herself. Also in the story, her friend Hailey is racist because she doesn’t see what is so wrong with the Khalil situation. There are also other times like when they are playing basketball in chapter 7, Hailey says “Pretend the ball is some fried chicken. Bet you’ll stay on it then.” This was offensive because Starr took it as referring to the stereotype that black people like fried chicken. In another scene in the story, a conversation between Starr and Hailey goes “So I’m supposed to ‘get over’ the fact he (Khalil) was murdered?’ ‘Yes, get over it! He was probably gonna end up dead anyway.” This was very hurtful for Starr because Hailey was saying that Khalil wasn’t worth anything and that he should’ve been killed