The Hate U Give

Angie Thomas’s award winning 2017 novel The Hate U Give is a story that is all too familiar to many Americans: an unarmed black man shot by the police, for the simple crime of being black. Even with the outcrys of a community, the officer gets off with little to no punishment, while the dead…

Children of Blood and Bone (2018) is a young adult novel written by Nigerian American author Tomi Adeyemi. Adeyemi’s debut novel is the first book in a trilogy and follows Zelie Adebola as she attempts to bring magic back to the Kingdom of Orisha. After the brutal oppression of her people, she will stop at…

In the book, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, 16 year old Starr Carter battles the events that follow after her best friend is shot dead in front of her at the hands of the police. Notably, this novel is centered around gaining justice over the wrongful death of a black individual, and protesting…

Recently I have watched the movie The Hate U Give and I really enjoyed it. The movie is a drama and crime film. It is about a teenage girl named Starr who grapples with racism, police brutality, and activism after witnessing something you never want to witness. This movie has wonderful actors who really played…

Literature is relevant because it helps the person better comprehend what he or she is reading rather than just skimming through it. In our everyday lives, we use literature for critical thinking purposes. It helps us see ourselves see from a third-person point of view. Literary fiction creates a large amount of pure entertainment by…

One lesson I learned while reading The Hate U Give was to never trust anything. You can trust yourself, but you can never trust what anyone else is saying. When Khalil got shot, for absolutely doing nothing, nobody trusted Starr’s word at first but herself. A theme I saw was racism, you see it from…

Prejudice is the judgment of a person based on their religion, race, gender, and a ton of other factors. Prejudice has been a problem in our society for a while and sadly a lot of our historical conflicts are due to prejudice of some kind. Due to Harper Lee’s perspective in 1960, To Kill A…

Angie Thomas’s award winning 2017 novel The Hate U Give is a story that is all too familiar to many Americans: an unarmed black man shot by the police, for the simple crime of being black. Even with the outcrys of a community, the officer gets off with little to no punishment, while the dead…

The Hate U Give, produced by George Tillman Jr, is a movie based on racism. This movie is based on a girl named Starr Carter and her family, who is switching between two worlds, the poor black neighborhood, and the wealthy white prep school. There is a balance between the two worlds that is broken…

The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas, explores the topic of race in America from the eyes of the main character, Starr Carter. Starr is a teenage black girl that lives in the poor neighborhood of Garden Heights while attending a predominantly white school, Williamson Prep. Starr is placed in the difficult situation of living…