The Hate U Give

Jayden Vasquez

Ms. Fletcher & Mrs. Co-Edwards

Erw 12

22 January 2020

The Hate U Give  

In the novel, “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas, the development of the story line allows the readers to view the perspective of how white police brutality is against African Americans and how racism is in the Twenty first century. The main character in the novel is Starr Carter. Starr is a sixteen year old African American girl who attends a white preppy school, Williamson prep in the suburbs but lives in a poor neighborhood called Garden Heights. 

The novel starts off with Starr and her friend Kenya whom they also share an older half brother Seven attend Big D's wild party in Garden Heights where there are drugs, alcohol, and a lot of sex is going on at the party. Kenya goes off dancing away into the crowd with a drink in one hand with her other friends leaving Starr alone where she later on reunites with her childhood best friend Khalil. Starr and Khalil catch up a little bit at the party but then got interrupted by a fight which lead to a shooting. Starr and Khalil rush out of the party where they go into his car and just catch up more and finally driving away but got pulled over by a cop. Starr starts to freak out because of what's been happening with Police brutality against African American people and yells at Kahlil to put his hands on the dashboard of his car. Khalil starts getting cocky with the cop so he tells him to step out of the car. As Khalil is waiting outside of the car he reaches in for his brush but the cop thought it was a gun and shoots him which lead to his death. Starr gets upset by it and does a protest saying if it were a white person they wouldn't have gotten shot but since it was a person of color