Hate U Give Reflection

When we first meet Starr, we understand that she has two separate lives to live due to her race. She never planned on going to the party she was at in the first place, but has to go to keep her Garden Heights reputation alive. Thomas chooses to provide descriptions on how Starr feels about being at the big spring break party that she knows could cause some controversy because she attends Williamson. During the party, Starr feels like “there are just some places where it’s not enough to be me” (3). The author describes Starr’s struggles to maintain her Garden Heights life because she wants to be able to be whomever she feels to be herself. Thomas shows how Starr is tackle her self-concept through keeping her Garden Heights life separate from the Williamson Prep life. In

Family relationships and society play fundamental roles in how a child grows and makes their own choices. How they are seen and treated by society can influence how the child acts. From how they are raised, to what values and morals they are taught will determine the child’s reactions to obstacles that come up in life. I will be discussing some major events in the book that stood out to me as to why two men who basically grew up on the same block, ended up on very different paths.

Family is the first structure that one becomes a part of and it has a huge impact on people’s life. Parents play an important part on a child’s development. Jess’s family had a significant impact on Jess’s emotional state. Hir parents did not give the love that a child would require from the beginning. Leslie Feinberg states, “My mother admitted she was afraid to touch me, except to pin on a diaper or stick a bottle in my mouth” (Feinberg 14). They treated hir as ze was different (?) .Another significant experience that Jess had in hir childhood was when

Many people face trials and tribulations day to day that mold them into the individuals they are destined to be. These could be positive or negative trials and tribulations, but either way, experiences ultimately are the major key to people’s growth and perception of the world around them. These experiences may be brought on by external factors such as who people surround themselves with (i.e. friends and relationships), neighborhoods and what is considered the “norm” for said neighborhood (i.e. gun violence, gang involvements, drugs, etc.), influences from parents or other caregivers and the amount of time they devote to the growing child. Many people are granted the same opportunity as others, but they let these extrinsic factors sway them from their destinations and wind up in situations based on how they handled previous situations. This idea is true in the novel The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates written by Wes Moore. In this novel, Wes Moore gives the detailing truth about how people are affected negatively by their decisions everyday, but also how positive influences such as role models and caring families have a positive effect on the development and destination of a child. The paths that both the Wes Moores took in life could have easily converged and been taken on by the other. No matter one’s predetermined outcome in life, his or her life can still be drastically shifted due to external influences and resources, much

For example, Lorraine's mother always tells her “you’re not a pretty girl Lorraine.”, she also always calls Lorraine fat and ugly. Lorraine’s mother does not set a good example for Lorraine because she bullies her. Another example is John’s father likes to lie which rubbed off on John, one time John’s father went around bragging how he phonied up a car insurance claim to get a hundred dollars to replace a piece of aluminum on their new car, which he had really replaced himself. John’s father taught John that lying was not bad without even knowing. John’s family also had other issues because John’s father was an alcoholic and did not care if John drank beer. John was not old enough to drink beer but his father did not care because he was an alcoholic. Both families show that they have bad family values because they are mean and

Relationships between people can change lives forever. For instance, a parent and child’s relationship are one of the most important ones because that is where our consciousness about love, trust and assurance comes from. Depending on the relationship, it can either benefit or suffer a child. Since little children always look up to their parents and learn from them. So the actions done by their parents can affect the child’s life later in the years. This scenario can be reflected in the book Into the Wild, the character Chris McCandless. Chris McCandless parent’s outside appearance was wanting Chris to go to school and be successful. Meanwhile, in the inside appearance, especially the dad, was an abusive father. This reflected a double life.

Throughout the film, the issues of family life, ideal role models, and child development significantly reflect toward today’s society. Today, this society finds it difficult to raise a child for two parents. For example, they experience financial problems, relationship issues amongst themselves, or potentially going through a divorce all play a critical role in the child development process. A parent's initial hope is for their child to succeed in school and also to succeed in the outside world when looking for jobs that suit their interest, yet, teenagers have the highest tendency to commit a crime. By following the friends they chose to have, they become more influenced to encounter themselves into trouble, however, this is not the only factor. During life at

After reading The Hate U Give, my eyes were opened to the struggles that people face in “ghettos”. Before reading this book, I never thought how awful it can be to be stuck there and not be a part of the gangs, drugs, and crime. Starr is stuck in Garden Heights even though she frowns upon all of the shady dealings that occur around her. I know many people that look at residents of not-so-nice neighborhoods and automatically assume that they are just another gangbanging “hood rat” (a term I’m heard a lot). I know many people who do not act and despise people that act in such a manner and this book showed me how they deal with these stereotypes put on them.

Starr’s family is very close to her and she revolves around her dad. They start showing comfort to Starr, after her friend Khalil gets killed. The next morning, Starr’s mother comes in her room, after she wants to stay in her bed and be alone and says, “I know, baby, but I don’t want you here by yourself.” (29) This shows the reader that her family is there for her and is trying to help her through the situation. Her parents help her and her siblings by moving out of Garden Heights and moving to the suburbs. Her mother and father have a conversation, midway through, Maverick states, “But I realize being real ain’t got anything to do with where you live. The realest thing I can do is protect my family, and that means leaving Garden Heights.” (308) This is very powerful because he is showing how much he cares about his family and knows how bad Garden Heights really is.

A person’s upbringing can greatly affect their outlook on life. Take Louie from Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken, Louie openly defied his parents and everyone around just to prove the point

The film Sicko was indeed a very powerful and educational documentary about the United States Health Care System. There were numerous stories that resonated with me, but if I were to just choose one, it would have to be the story about the 9/11 rescuers who couldn’t afford to receive treatment for their illnesses, which were caused by their heroism on 9/11. When I heard this story, it just made me so upset that our healthcare system could not make an exception to treat the many heroes of 9/11. On the contrary, they were treated better and on top of that for free by another country. Every single day we are losing thousand and thousand of our people simply because they do not have the means to pay for their treatments. In fact, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention website states, that there are still over 28 million people in the United States who are uninsured (Cdc.gov, 2017). The American Journal of Public Health published a new study about the number of deaths found annually for those who are uninsured. The study found that nearly 45,000 annual deaths were associated with the lack of health insurance (Cecere, 2009). These numbers are upsurge and something needs to be done to change this.

Every person reaches a point in their lives when they must define themselves in relation to their parents. We all come through this experience differently, depending on our parents and the situation that we are in. For some people the experience comes very early in their lives, and can be a significant life changing experience. In William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning” Colonel Sartoris Snopes must decide either to stand with his father and compromise his integrity, or embrace honesty and morality and condemn his family. This is a difficult decision to make, especially for a ten year old boy that has nothing outside of what his father provides. Sarty’s decision to ultimately betray his father is dependent on his observation of Abner’s character

Reflection is a major factor in "developing self-awareness" to improve services provided to everyone around me, this is to develop my own understanding in realising the good and bad made previously. Moving forward with a better understanding, as well as rectifying the mistake whilst recognizing the good points, (Horton-Deutsch and Sherwood, 2008).

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, we are introduced to our protagonist Starr who is a 16 year old that is trying to figure out the struggles of high school. She lives in a ‘ghetto’ part of town and goes to private school in another town. She is trying to figure out the struggles of growing up and becoming her own person which include, dating a white man that she hides from her dad, feeling out of place, trying to be friends with the mean girl in school, and isn’t sure who she can trust.