Hate List Book Report

In the beginning the class we were assigned groups and as a whole we had to find the literal point or subject of the readings that were due for the day and relate them to identity, attitude, or prejudice. This was to allow us to prepare to write our second major essay we had for writing 1. We were assigned the Andrew Sullivan readings, “what’s so bad about hate?”. The short excerpt from the article stated various situations in which the actions were categorized as a regular crime or a hate crime. The author then continued to discuss how adding a hate crime just complicates the verdict because no one except the individual knows why they committed the crime. Throughout the reading as a group we categorized the reading as one of identity. Everyone

She has one friend named Stacy that knows everything about Nicole, they are best friends until one day Stacy is shot in a drive by and is killed. Nicole’s story is an example of marriage and family, poverty, and crime. Like Lisa, Nicole does not have parents that support their family or treat them right. Nicole’s step-dad is an alcoholic and abusive towards her. She is to the point where she has to lie to her teacher about her bruises so she does not get taken away. She feels like she is all alone and nowhere to go that is safe for her, not even school. Also, when her only friend Stacy dies in a drive-by, this is an example of high crime rates in poverty neighborhoods. In class, we talked about how there tends to be more crimes in the less wealthy neighborhood versus the wealthier neighborhoods. The kids that grow up in these very poor neighborhoods, tend to turn to criminal behavior because that is all they know. They have grown up around it their whole lives, and they have become accustomed to it. So maybe a drive by or gunshots in Nicole’s neighborhood are common for her and she does not even phase when she hears a gun shot.

In the book The Hate List by Jennifer Brown, the story is told from the point of view of Valerie Leftman, the girlfriend of Nick Levil. Nick shot multiple people in their school and injured more. Valerie unknowingly helped him create the list of victims. I think the book could have been as interesting if it was told from the point of view of Ginny Baker. Ginny Baker was shot by Nick in the face. She had to have multiple plastic surgeries to reconstruct something that even remotely resembled a face. “’I can’t sit here without thinking about… about…’ she sucked in a breath and then let it out with a stream an anguish that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. ‘Why did they let her come back?’” (Brown 69). Ginny is traumatized by the

In the book Hate List by Jennifer Brown, Nick Levil opens fire on Garvin High School, slaughtering many of his fellow peers, along with giving life-long emotional damage to others. He is selfish and cruel in this one act, but as the reader sees in his girlfriend Valerie’s memory, he is kind and sweet in others. He is an enigma in her mind, and she spends the entire book wrestling with her idea of him, until she finally comes to the conclusion that while Nick has done horrific things, she still loves and cares for him. Even though Nick has died before the opening sentence of the book, as the shooting is a prior event to the story, he affects Valerie’s choices throughout the novel. Through his actions, Nick, a round and static character, manages

In Gerald Graff’s “Disliking Books”, he grows up as a Jew going to school in Chicago where he has to read a textbook for each class, containing hundreds of boring pages about stuff that could not possibly catch the eye of anyone walking by. Later on he still only reads magazines, comics, and sports novels. His father brings home many different books to try and get him to begin liking to read, but none of the topics interested him.

Nick is made fun of and ridiculed because of the restraining order. He also misses Caitlin desperately. Page 42 describes Nick’s feelings, “God, I miss her. I try to sometimes see her, making it look accidental” (pg.42). This evidence expresses Nick’s feelings and how everything is affecting him negatively. Caitlin has to live through what happend between Nick and herself. On page 243 Alex Flinn depicts what really occurred between Nick and Caitlin. It states “ ‘Get up!’ I leaned to pull her toward me. I didn’t see her face then, but I see it now, bruised, broken. Blood seeped from one nostril and out her mouth.” This graphic evidence clearly describes something horrible and violent. This shows how much Caitlin suffered. Their points of view express what they are feeling and that’s how they compare. This would contribute to the plot by revealing what the characters are feeling deep

Two of the strongest emotions a person will ever feel are love and hate. Love and hate are two of the oldest emotions known to mankind along with fear, pain, etc. No one really knows just how powerful each of these emotions are. There is a fine line between the two that I hope to discover. First things first, we have to understand each of them individually before we can understand them as a whole.

In Hate List by Jennifer Brown, the fact that both Nick and Val are bullied but only Nick shoots up the school suggests that when bullied, boys feel the need to take action while girls internalize the insults and pain. Nick plots revenge for the people who bully him and Val: “I’ll take care of it,” Nick explains, “I’ve been wanting to do something like this for a long time” (62). Nick believes that the bullies deserve pay back. He feels that he has a responsibility to teach them a lesson. Nick commits suicide after murdering all the people who bully him. He would rather die by getting revenge on his bullies then live without seeing them get their comeuppance.

The first novel I read is called “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas. The book starts off with a high schooler named Starr who witnesses the death one of her childhood best friends, Khalil. Throughout this book, Starr does everything she can to get justice for Khalil. One major lesson Starr learned is to always stand up for what you believe in no matter what. Starr mostly stands up against the police force because a police officer killed Khalil.

The 20-year-old police officer, Jimeleta, had no connection, but she cared for her best (and only) friend, Zacethine, so she cared for whoever her friend cared for. They were in a psychiatric hospital, because Zacethine’s husband, Ted, was freaking out after he witnessed a horrible murder that even the cops weren’t allowed to see until the cleanup crew came.

First of all, let me mention that I extremely enjoyed the first couple chapters of the book The Hate You Give. In this book it portrays the greatest mental image of lower income communities. The books descriptions were so incredible that it was capable of putting the reader in the shoes of the characters. It was also capable of allowing the reader to truly experience how many people live and deal with certain situations in the lower income housing. However, the book took a downward spiral after chapter 13. The only amazing part after chapter 13 was the internal dilemma the fathers goes through on whether he should stay in the ghetto or leave. He states that what’s wrong with these kinds of communities are that people achieve a better life, leave, and never help out. However, by the end of the book the entire family leaves and is better off. This is hands down the best advice this book can give. The reason being is most people cannot change, they already receive an outstanding amount of hand outs, and they're afraid of what people may think of them.

Hate groups such as the Creativity Movement, Kingdom Identity Ministries, and the Ku Klux Klan have a long history of racism, hatred, and radicalism. At first glance, a deep hatred towards a particular race or religious group seems to be the main, or only, reason that a person would join one of these groups, however, there are many factors aside from race that contribute to the decision to join a hate group. These additional factors include financial situations, the need to simplify a complicated reality, and a desire for acceptance or feeling of importance.

In the book Uglies by Scott Westerfeild, society is based off looks. The original motive for this society was that if everyone was made pretty, then people wouldn't fight over looks because everyone would be pretty. This change started after regular society was destroyed by an oil virus that set everything that used it on fire. "Oil infected by this bacterium was just as unstable as phosphorus. It exploded on contact with oxygen.

The book I chose to read was Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, the story is about a 17 year old boy named Peter Houghton who decided to shoot up his school in nineteen minutes. The reason why the author decided to write about a school shooting is because listening to her own childrens struggle with bullying and trying to fit in led her to write about the topic of a school shooting.The book goes between the past and the present leading up to why Peter decided to shoot up the school. Peter had a distant relationship between his parents who didn’t show any attention to him ever since his older brother Joey died in a car accident. What led up to Peter deciding to shoot up the school is the countless bullying he had to suffer since Kindergarten

Nick going into therapy, helps him understand that he was getting hurting Caitlin, and that he made a terrible mistake. Close to the beginning of the book, Nick is very loving and caring, but then transitions into being a very violent person towards his girlfriend Caitlin. When Nick states, “ You think wrong... It doesn’t go with what you’re wearing and it’s totally blue collar. It makes your neck look too short for your body too.” It illustrates that nick can’t help but always make a bad comment about Caitlin. Him making bad comments about Caitlin gives her a bad