The Hate U Give Sparknotes

The book I read was The Hate U Give, a novel written by author Angie Thomas. The book follows the genre “Urban fiction” which is a literary genre set in a city landscape but usually focuses on the underside of city living. The author writes the book from a first person point of view from the perspective of “Start Carter”, a 16 year old African American girl who lives in “Garden Heights” home to 2 rival gangs who make the neighborhood into what she calls “a battlefield” and “the ghetto”. The novel mainly takes place in Starr’s neighborhood “Garden Heights” and her predominantly white school outside of her neighborhood “Williamson Prep” both fictional areas assumed to be fictionalized versions of areas in Jackson, Mississippi, and the suburbs associated with that city.. At the start of the novel our story introduces us to “Start Carter'', a 16 year old African American girl who lives in “Garden Heights” goes to a predominantly white private school outside of her neighborhood, “Kenya'' Starrs relative on behalf of their older …show more content…

With Starr, we are also introduced to Starr's boyfriend Chris who just like her friends attends Williamson Prep and is white. Our character who we are reading from the perspective of “Starr” deals with both internal and external conflicts throughout the story, The internal are an example of Man vs Self coming from her trauma/ptsd from the night she saw a cop racially profile and murder her friend Khalil that starts to affect her physical health later in the novel. Her external conflicts are an example of Man vs Society, with Starr struggling to speak up against the police force to try to get justice for Khalil's unjust death. At the start of the novel Starr is at a party with her friend Kenya, Later in the party Starr ends up seeing Khalil and after catching up leave the party together in Khalil’s