The Hate U Give

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His long-standing feud with Kenya’s father, King—a gangster who effectively runs the neighborhood—puts Starr’s family in constant danger. Khalil drops the brush in the door and cranks up his stereo, blasting an old rap song Daddy plays a million times. Traumatized after witnessing the fatal shooting of her friend Khalil, Starr blames herself for not being there for Khalil prior to his death. Starr deletes Hailey’s phone number and vows to continue using her voice to push for justice and change.

The air conditioner in the window stopped working months ago, and the smoker heats up the whole building. The Hate U Give": Angie Thomas' sensational debut novel should be required reading for clueless white people". Then, shit, even if you do have a high school diploma, so many of the schools in our neighborhoods don't prepare us well enough. Throw my little brother, Sekani, in there and you have the same person at eight, seventeen, and thirty-six.The unarmed Khalil is murdered – shot at point blank range by the man Starr refers to from this moment on as “Officer One-Fifteen”.

The last words of Eric Garner, adopted and amplified by the Black Lives Matter movement, echo again in the early pages of Angie Thomas’s young-adult novel The Hate U Give. In a recent interview with Cosmopolitan, she explained, “‘Young adult’ is a critical age, and I knew that if I showed Starr going through these types of things, I could provide a mirror for some young adults and a window for adults—a lot of [whom] read young adult books—who might bring open hearts to a story that I told from her perspective, when they might normally look at a topic like this and say, ‘No. It’s unnerving to read that part of the toolkit for raising a black child in America is to coach them on the dos and don’ts if confronted by the law. People glance over at me with that “who is this chick, standing against the wall by herself like a lame-ass? However, one of the main purposes of the book is to bring to light this current issue that the black community has with the police from their perspective.

Starr argues with her friend Hailey, who was siding the police officer, claiming that his life also matters.

I’ve always heard that everybody and their momma comes to his spring break parties—well, everybody except me—but damn, I didn’t know it would be this many people. She was chunky (her momma told her it was baby fat), dark-skinned, and wore her hair in braids that always looked freshly done.Seven knows, because he met Chris at school, and Momma figured it out when Chris would always visit me at Uncle Carlos’s house, claiming he was my friend. During the drive home, Khalil is pulled over after an unexpected turn at the traffic, and the officer, One-Fifteen, shoots and kills him. As the tension mounts, the reader suffers with Starr’s quite ordinary friends and family as they hurtle through extraordinary experiences and circumstances. The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas is a look into what a lot of black communities go through in the United States. The failure of the criminal justice system to hold One-Fifteen accountable pushes Starr to take an increasingly public role, first giving a television interview and then speaking out during the protests, which are met by police in riot gear.

The two initially bonded over a love of the television show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Chris often raps the theme song to make Starr smile. The movie also features Issa Rae, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, Algee Smith, KJApa, Lamar Johnson, Anthony Mackie, Common, [77] and Sabrina Carpenter. There is some conversational swearing by both adults and teens throughout the novel, including "s--t," "f--k," "ass," "bitch," "damn" (and variants), and "nigga.Guys in their freshest kicks and sagging pants grind so close to girls they just about need condoms. With his job as a police officer and a home in a suburban, gated community, Uncle Carlos assimilates into the white community, and encourages Lisa to do the same with her family, leading to conflict with Maverick. Since according to Nana, Aunt Pam “can’t cook worth a damn for those poor babies” she finally agreed to move. She also confesses that One-Fifteen pointed his gun at her and she wonders if he thinks he ought to have shot her as well. The Hate U Give is an outstanding debut novel and says more about the contemporary black experience in America than any book I have read for years, whether fiction or non-fiction.