The Hate List

In the novel, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas the main character Starr Carter has to live two lives to satisfy the people in her suburban prep school and poor neighborhood. At school, she is worried about her attitude so she doesn’t represent the angry black girl stereotype. In her neighborhood, she is ridiculed for acting arrogant. The balance between the two lives she constantly moves between is shattered when her best friend Khalil was shot by a police officer. Soon, afterward, Khalil’s death reached national news.

The title is significant to the plot for a number of reasons. For example, at the beginning of the book an article from the ¨GARVIN COUNTY SUN-TRIBUNE¨ this article explained what happened May 8th, 2008. May 8th, 2008, was the day Nick Levil decided to shoot people who were written down on a list… The ¨Hate List.¨ The ¨Hate List¨ was a list Valerie Leftman began to make in a red spiral notebook, all about the things she hated. People, food, places, objects, weather… In chapter 10 Valerie meets the ¨staff physiatrist at Garvin General.¨ (Dr. Dently) She is then forced to answer questions in order for Dr. Dently to evaluate her. After questioning Valerie is forcefully placed into a wheelchair and taken up to the

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 novel that I am reading is All we have left and it’s by Wendy Mills. Aila is a Muslim and she got caught with cigarette in her hand. Her parents don’t trust her anymore and she wants to go to a program that is a NYU and it’s for drawing program she just can’t go because of her mistake. Alia told her mom that she hates and her mom and runs out of the building and the reason why they don’t trust her because the last time she ran away from home. Now, Jesse is going to Nick’s house and her friends are telling that he’s not right for her but she thinks he is. She goes to his house and he tells her about the bombing of 9/11 and she remembers her brother’s death in the twin

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

During the novel, the characters' lives are all combined with each other's struggles and sexual experiences, some heterosexual, some homo- or bisexual. The most obvious victim of the novel is Rufus Scott, a black jazz musician who commits suicide at the end of the long first chapter. The other major characters also suffer as they struggle to find themselves and satisfy their craving for love and true happiness.

The character that seems to leave a big impact on the story is Mignon LaSalle, one of the antagonists of the novel. In the beginning, of the novel Mignon seems to be a spoiled rich girl, who believes that the world revolves around her. It is clear that her friends look up at her as if she is perfect; however, she looks down at her as if they are her followers.

Doctor Benedict Mady Copeland is another character lost in this book. He is a black doctor whose desire is to motivate people to demand their rightful place in American Society. He has ideas that no one seems to understand regardless of how hard he tries to explain him or her. Jake Blount is another pathetic character. He shows up at this cafe drunk and constantly acting foolish. He searches for someone to listen to him and finds that in Singer. He actually believes Singer understands him when Singer really doesn’t fully understand him. Mick Kelly is another character in the book. She has poor living ways and desires to write symphonies. She cannot express her love for music. She is also forced to quit school and take on a job to help the family out.

To conclude, these are the four loneliest characters in the novel. They all have similarities in terms of dreams and loneliness however in the story the characters do not notice this but the reader almost classifies these characters as an outsiders group. Their characters show how having big dreams and high aspirations can make you lonelier. We can also see how the views of society affect loneliness such as the acceptance of racism and sexism in this time period as well as the fact that every man was for himself so there

In chapter 1, the narrator is Snookum, a.k.a. George Eliot, Jr. He lives with his grandmother, Aunt Glo. The reader can infer that Aunt Glo is a tough woman. When she orders Snookum to sit down and finish his food. In chapter 2, the narrator is Janey, a.k.a. Janice Robinson. The reader can tell she is somewhat above the other blacks. She lives in the Marshall House as the housekeeper. In chapters 1 and 2, the story's plot and setting is provided, which is Beau's murder around the Plantation. Thus far, my favorite character is Candy, a white plantation owner. The reader can characterize her as a neighbourly person who cares for people of all races during a time of extreme rigidity. When she tried to take the blame to protect Mathu, an African-American

My favorite character in the book is Mary’s Grandma (in the book they call her Grandma) because she is a trustworthy person. Mary trusted her even though the thought Grandma was doing wrong but really she was doing well, like taking a can of Bootsie (Mary’’s cat).

She had lost the single most important part of her life, her family. She continually talks about how she was thrown into many different relatives homes, most of them never really caring about her. She had grown up to be a scarred and unpleasant person to be around, because she never had a family. Another important example of how significant family is in the book is when Krissi Cates family turned on her. “No one ever forgives me for anything” (Flynn 217).

The characters in the book are very special but hated in a way to me. I hated but loved Paul at the same time he would drink, hit Johanna and lie a lot about everything but, I sort of saw through that and Johanna said that in the book. Johanna was very complexed she’d always would say she's average but she really wasn't. There's also a girl named Kara a.k.a “The Cool Girl” who's Johanna’s friend who just gives her advice they don't really hang out much but they're good friends. Then there's also the parents Paul writes to his father, his mother had died when he was younger and paul drinks a lot and lives by himself.

What character if any did you identify with most from the book? This can be either yourself or someone you know.

I love books that can make me laugh and cry and this book definitely made me do so and more. My favorite character would have to be Laurence because he’s always so honest and true to himself and who he is. He’s also very humorous. Another reason why I like the book is because it relates to real life and the characters go through endeavours that we all face. It sometimes has helpful advice and words of encouragement. One of my favorite quotes from the book is, “You know... no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you're not. But if you're clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were¨. I like this quote because it’s truthful and deep and most people can relate to it in the way that we all have parents or someone we know that want and expect us to go far and do tremendous things with our lives. Overall, it is a good book just with a slow start, but it’s worth it if you’re