The Hate U Give

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The Hate U Give is Angie Thomas’s first novel about a teenage girl who struggles to deal with racism, police brutality, and activism after seeing her black friend killed by the police, extended from a short story she wrote in school in response to the police shooting of Oscar Grant. TThe book turned into an immediate young adult bestseller and was adapted into The Hate U Give Movie shortly after its release. [1]

Plot

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uncomfortable harmony between these worlds is broken when Starr observes the deadly shooting of her childhood best friend, Khalil who was unarmed, at the hands of a police officer. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are considering him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are rioting in Khalil's name. Some police and the local drug lord attempt to threaten Starr and her family. [2]

Controversy

Starr Carter, an African-American girl who witnesses her friend killed with a gun by a policeman during a traffic stop, gets actively educated bt her parents about racism. Her parents are giving advice about how to deal with themselves while communicating with white people and tutoring them throughout the entire existence of activism that has tried to bring issues to light about the outcomes of racism for all Americans. The author of The Hate U Give has delivered a powerful story that strikes the heart of contemporary race relations in the United States. [3]

References

  1. The Hate U Give. Wikipedia. Retrieved January 27 2021.
  2. The Hate U Give Book Summary. Book Browse. Retrieved January 28 2021.
  3. Alexander, Jonathan. Other People’s Children, Part 2: Stories in the Aftermath, or “The Hate U Give”. Los Angeles Review of Books. 8 December 2017. Retrieved January 27 2021.