Character Analysis: The Hate U Give

However, there are many times throughout the novel in which Starr certainly is brave, and there are a few instances in the novel where Starr shows great strength as well. Starr’s bravery is demonstrated when she gets interviewed by Diane Carey, as well as when she speaks for the Grand Jury. These situations make her is nervous and scared, and she ultimately would prefer not being interviewed by Diane Carey or speaking for the Grand Jury. Nonetheless, she knows that she must speak out about Khalil’s murder and remains extremely brave when she is interviewed and when she is in front of the Grand Jury. If Starr lacked bravery, she wouldn’t have agreed to being interviewed by Diane Carey, and she wouldn’t have fought with her voice while speaking for the Grand Jury. Even though bravery and strength are two different concepts, and at times throughout the novel Starr isn’t strong but she certainly is brave, there are times where Starr is brave and strong. When Starr stands on top of a cop car during the riots in Garden Heights, she shows great strength, because it was entirely her decision to do so. She doesn’t feel like she needs protest at the riots, she wants to, “‘I wanna do something,’ I say. ‘Protest, riot, I don’t care-’” (389). Strength comes with bravery, but strength is not necessary in being brave, and Starr is always brave, which leads her to being

As Maverick identifies the oppression that is causing people in her community to speak out, a “lump forms in [her] throat” when Starr finally realizes the truth (Thomas 171). The lump in Starr’s throat silences her, making her realize the truth behind the chaos of her internal and external conflicts. She realizes that her silence only favors the oppressor, and that ultimately, her truth must be known, the truth behind Khalil’s murder. Moreover, the death of Khalil is just a portion of the big picture in Starr’s perspective. The systemic oppression of blacks in America has created a nation divided, divisiveness that is immaculately portrayed in the novel. Khalil’s murder gained national attention, eventually, which created a whole swirl of chaos between Starr’s father and the gang scene, to riots and violent protests that ravaged Starr’s neighborhood. In examining the chaotic situation that she is in, Starr realizes that “this is bigger than [her] and Khalil. This is abous Us, with a capital U; everybody who looks like us, feels like us, and us experiencing this pain with us…” (171). The Us with a capital U is referring not only to black populations in America, but to minority

Angie Thomas’ novel The Hate U Give is the story of a teenage girl facing racism in the world around her. Starr Carter lives in Garden Heights, a neighborhood filled with gangs, when one of her best friends Khalil is shot by the police, she is quick to know he had been killed because of the racism that exists in our world. Throughout the novel, Starr is constantly trying to show the world why Khalil died in order to get justice for his death. She does not believe he deserved to die or the cop who shot Khalil deserves to walk free of the crime he committed. Through different characters, the author is able to convey the message of one should not form opinions on someone or something based on stereotypes. Throughout the novel, some characters struggle with judging people before they know their past. Angie Thomas is able to get this across to readers not only through Starr, but also characters such as her father Maverick, her friends from school, and even Officer Cruise, the officer who killed Khalil.

The feeling of being judged for the experiences an individual faces can be detrimental to the person 's personality by that these experiences result in you trying to become someone you are not so that you hide what society feels is your flaw, your race. Starr lives in two completely separate worlds, Garden Heights and the area surrounding Williamson High School. These two worlds hinders Starr’s ability to voice her opinions and thoughts about anything because in both of these areas there is this fear of overstepping boundaries. Overstepping boundaries in either area causes an individual to become threatened, for example, in Garden Heights, Starr silences herself whenever she is around gang members because she is frightened that the gang members will harm both her and her family for her opinions. Starr silences herself when she is at Williamson High School, especially since she is one out of the few African Americans that attends there, because her opinion is outnumbered by the majority of the population who are either ignorant about the issues that affects Starr’s race or cares less to even hear issues that occurs to others beside them.

In The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, Starr Carter goes through a tragic event of losing her best friend, Khalil, during a routine police stop that shifts into murder. Starr has to deal with this event while attending the predominantly white high school, Williamson Prep, and living in her “ghetto” neighborhood, Garden Heights. Keeping her lives separate isn’t the hardest thing she has to do, it is using her voice to make Khalil’s life matters. After he is shot by Officer One-Fifteen, a movement begins to prove that all lives matter, no matter the race. In The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas challenges stereotypes through race by displaying Starr’s attitude throughout the entire trials of her life and Khalil’s death.

Just like she, I attend a private school with people who are mostly white although were I live and the people I interact with outside of school are mostly black. The dichotomy between the two worlds is perfectly illustrated throughout the book. Starr’s friendship with Hailey in particular was very farmilary to me. Many people I interact with on a daily basis say and do things that I perfice as racist or intolerante who have no idea that they are even saying it. After Starr confronts Hailey about her racist remarks Hailey responded with the following “Ho-ly s***, Starr! Seriously? After everything we’ve been through, you think I’m a racist? Really?” (Hailey 112). Hailey did not take responsibility for any of comets which were all consistently racist making her a racist person. Many white people do not understand what makes a racist a racist. Hailey and Starr’s interactions really spoke to me because I see it in my life on a daily basis. Reading a book were I could see myself in the main character was new thing for me and then furthermore, relating to her life experiences and desires really helped me relate with the book. Representation is always important, especially in mediums such as literature and television because it gives a voice to minority issues and also normalized minority culture there for making it less of an issue which leads to discrimination in

In the book, A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines, Grant Wiggins is a hero of discrimination because at first, he didn’t really care whether or not Jefferson died but after spending time with him, he started to care. In the beginning of the book, Grant was selected by Jefferson’s godmother, Miss Emma to make Jefferson realize that he isn’t a hog. “I want the teacher talk to my boy for me.' He looked over her head at me, standing back by the door. I was too educated for Henri Pichot; he had no use for at all anymore. But just as Miss. Emma had given so much of herself to that family, so had my aunt. So Henri Pichot, who cared nothing in the world

Tupac Shakur was a visionary of his time and continues to influence society to this very day. The book “The Hate U give” by Angie Thomas derives its title from the rapper Tupac Shakur’s philosophy of THUG LIFE—which stands for “The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody”, explores the journey of a young teenage African American girl named Starr who witnesses a police officer shoot a childhood friend in a traffic stop and her struggle to do the right thing and testify and tell her side of what happened. At the same time her world starts to breakdown and collide. The incident also means that the carefully built-up boundary between Starr’s two worlds begins to crumble. she goes to a school outside of town that is mostly white,

One night, Starr goes to a party in Garden Heights with her best friend Kenya. While she is there she meets one of her childhood friends, Khalil. Kenya decided to let Khalil and Starr to talk because they haven’t seen each other in a while. As they both are having a conversation, a guy decides to pull out a gun and start a fight with a few people. Starr and Khalil left because the fight was becoming more violent and it wasn’t safe for them to stay at the party. When he drives Starr home after the party, they are stopped by a policeman. Khalil is forced to get out of the car, Khalil checked to see if Starr was okay and the police officer shot him, even though he was unarmed.

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One of the main reasons people hide parts of their character is that they think people will judge them or their background. In The Hate You Give, the private school, Garden Heights, Starr goes to has mainly caucasian people attending, there is only a handful of other African-Americans in her school that she knows of. Additionally, Starr comes from an African-American neighborhood where there are a lot of gangs, shootings, and crime. While she is at school, she considers herself “Williamson Starr”, who is “approachable” to her friends and her “white” boyfriend, Chris. When she gets home, she’s just "Big Mav's daughter who work in the store." and she likes to keep those two characters separate. Kenya, Starrs friend, and Starr were talking about sharing their brother, Seven, and brings up how Starr was ashamed of her and Garden Heights. Starr thinks to herself, “If I face the truth, as ugly as it is, she’s right. I was ashamed of Garden Heights and everything in it. It seems so stupid now though. I can’t change where I come from or what I’ve been through, so

Being an “other” in America is difficult, as the Huang family accurately portrays in Fresh off The Boat. The struggle of keeping a balance between an American identity and a Chinese identity is a burden on individuals. The series is based on the experiences of Eddie Huang, a Chinese-American man, and his family. As a first-person account, his experiences cannot be applied to all Asian Americans. Despite this, there are common characteristics that arise with having an Asian American identity.

“A sixteen year old black boy is dead because a white cop killed him .” Maverick Carter p. 51. Star was forced to witness the death of two of her friends. As a a young teenager she was forced to live through the death of two of her loved ones. Many people can relate to her and understand how she grieved. “When I was twelve, my parents had two talks with me. One was the usual birds and bees...The other talk was about what to do if a cop stopped me.” Star Carter p. 20. As an African American living she has been conformed to a society that she must adjust the way she lives in order to survive. This is a real world problem that many citizens in our country and faced with every day. Oppression in communities of minorities affects the lives of many people based off of factors of their life that they can not

Mama says that Cassie doesn't understand the way of things at the time are. She says this for many reasons and one reason could be that she is a child and shows childish behaviors such as on pg and pg thinking the moon is made up of cheese and the clouds are cotton candy, this is proof she hasn’t been exposed to the harsh reality of the world and maybe big ma doesn't tell her this because she knows it would leave her crestfallen, maybe if she was even exposed to the night riders she would think they’re ghosts. Simply it shows she can’t handle or grasp reality at such a young age especially of her race and the time she was born it is very dangerous for Cassie, this is even more proof and it gives big ma a reason why she doesn't take Cassie, little man, and Christopher out that much to Strawberry compared to stacey. The reason for this is because Stacey is grown up and has a better grasp of reality then Cassie and the other kids.

Mollie- Mollie is a burden to everyone in Animal Farm, like always she struggles on doing several things. Mollie is always late for work, she dissapears everytime midway while everyone else is working, this shows that she is self centered, she only cares about herself. As always Mollie wants a lot of attention, in the chapter she accepted the luxury treatment from Pilkington as known as Old Farmer’s neighbor, the farmer did several things by stroking Mollie’s coat and feeding her sugar, this shows us that Mollie is unwilling to give up the luxuries that she enjoyed as the wealthy class. Eventually Mollie ran away.