The Hate U Give is a book by Angie Thomas is about a young girl named Starr Carter who is forced to face many situations head on such as her friend Khalil’s death which was caused by a police officer, after the death of Khalil there was a investigation held by the police department which ended up rendering the cop with no punishment. Starr ultimately felt that justice hadn’t been served so she thought that she would go and try herself so she along with her school protested, her classmates didn’t care at all and were quite happy that Khalil had died, they thought it was a good riddance because he was a drug dealer and didn’t contribute to society in any way. Starr’s dad was a gang member who went to prison, who now faces a feud with King who
The Hate U Give The Hate U Give is a book about a girl, Starr Carter, who witnesses her childhood friend, Khalil, being shot and killed by the police. They were fleeing a party that ended when everyone heard gunshots and got pulled over for driving with a broken taillight. The officer demanded Khalil to get out of the car to get patted down. He asks Starr if she is ok, before getting shot.
Angie Thomas, an African-American young adult author, wrote the novel, The Hate U Give, that follows a protagonist drawn to activism after she witnessed an officer shooting of her unarmed friend. Apart of a mostly white populated high school, Starr Carterr is the cool African American teen who’s semi-athletic, has a large group of friends and a sweet boyfriend. However, none of her peers know much more about her, like that she lives in Garden Heights - an area known as the ghetto. She’s a part of two opposite communities and has to constantly switch faces to suit each one. While at school, she tries to control her attitude and actions, fearing to become an “angry black woman; ” whereas, at home, she’s ridiculed for losing her roots.
Out if the Dust by Karen Hesse is about a small town girl named Billie Joe, evolving throughout many hardship that take place in this book. This debate is whether or not Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse should or should not remain in the eighth grade curriculum. Out of the Dust should be part of our eighth grade curriculum because it introduces to students a more advance and emotional form of poetry. One reason for it should stay is the use of free verse poems gives the reader more detail than an rhyming poem or even a basic novel would give
The novel, Cold Mountain, by Charles Frazier demonstrates literary fiction more than commercial fiction. The characters, particularly Stobrod, Ruby and Inman, are round and complex. They have more to them than what meets the eye, and as the novel unfolds their true thoughts, feelings and actions are revealed. Each has his or her own internal conflicts that they deal with, realistically showing that life is full of disappointments and struggles. Stobrod is one of the more complex characters in Cold Mountain.
Modesty Lorick World literature 203 "Justice for the barn" As a child we tend to look up to someone much older than us. We watch everything they do from their actions, how they interact and speak with other people. Someone a child would usually look up to is an older sibling, mother or father. We look for this person to lead us down the right path and to have our best interest at heart. To encourage, provide and make sure that whatever decision we may make is the right decision.
Image being a six-year-old girl running away from the crossfire between drug dealers. That is exactly what Angie Thomas, the author of The Hate U Give had to experience at such a fragile age. Worried, her mom took her to the library to show her that the world was bigger than what she had experienced. This started Angie on the path to loving literature.
Have you ever witnessed racism taking place? It’s an awful thing. The book, Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy and the movie, Remember the Titians both deal with racism. In both stories, it shows that no matter what color a person’s skin is, everyone should be treated equally. I believe that setting and the conflict shows the theme of both stories the best.
Love Kills In 1987, Fat boys had a song that could only say it best titled, “Protect yourself”, these lyrics explained why condoms are so important. “Now, there’s somethin’ real old, but still hot news been around since Lincoln, but out of view you stuff it in your wallet so your mom can’t see it’s called a condom, baby – and you better believe it ain’t under the self now it’s on display with all these diseases going around today you need a piece of mind when you do the wild thing so, a condom, brotha’ – don’t forget to bring. ”(Protect yourself by Fat Boys, 1987) Here is one of the know verses that brought meaning and expressed that sexual protection throughout history was not a thing to talk about.
“The Veldt,” by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction short story which involves a couple with two children whose psyche is affected by technology. The story starts out with a family who live in a contemporary “Happy Life Home,” a house which is considered to be ‘perfect’ in their society. The parents solely spoil their kids by allowing them to take advantage of this technology which ultimately does everything for the children, such as having the house filled with machines that complete everyday tasks for them. The animated home’s actions can be seen as Bradbury’s warning to society about the threat technology can have on the family unit. Ray Bradbury conveys the central message of dangerous effects technology can have on parents and children through the use of imagery, diction, and syntax.
Despite their different circumstances, The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas, and The Unwanted, by Don Brown, both perpetuate the themes of exclusion, oppression, and the strength of family and community through multiple ways, such as the differences that come with your upbringing, the joint effort to rebuild Garden Heights, and
Ana Cecilia Viana Miss Nardi ENG1D1-h 6 June 2023 The concept of speaking up and its relevance in The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Speaking up is something that may come easily to some but not to others. It is something many know they have to do but do not do it because of fear. In the novel, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, Starr Carter discovers that using her voice will strengthen her fight for justice in her community because she learns that speaking up promotes inclusivity, confidence, and a more educated society.
The Veldt has a psychoanalytic structure that shows how wealth affects body and mind. In this story, a rich family purchases a smart house to support their family in place of the parents, only to find out that it is heavily affecting the kids in a negative manner. It just goes to show that “too much of something isn’t a good thing.” This essay will show how the relationship between money and family relationships can have on one’s wholeness.
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas. A girl named Starr attends a party, and at the party, she reconnects with her friend Khali, when gunshots interrupt the party, Khail decides to give Starr a ride home where he gets pulled over and gets fatally shot by an officer. The Hate You Give is relevant for high school students because it is educating the way society uses stereotypes of black people to justify violence and racism against them, which is relevant to today's society, and valuable to people of color and activists. The Hate You Give is a relevant text to high school students because it provides the theme of social justice, The reason the text is valuable is that it shows students the importance of tackling universal messages, for example, ¨At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to
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,