The Hate U Give: A Printz Honor Winner
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, William C. Morris Award Winner, National Book Awar Longlist, Printz Honor Book, and Coretta Scott King Honor Book. The Hate U Give, now a major motion picture, is a young adult novel by Angie Thomas. It follows events in the life of a 16-year-old black girl, Starr Carter, who is drawn to activism after she witnesses the police shooting of a childhood friend.
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Racism is one of biggest social problems our society faces today, and I think this book by Angie Thomas did a phenomenal job showing the discrimination many Black people face and even a stereotype about Chinese people eating cats for thanksgiving. When Officer Cruise killed Khalil, I thought it was arguable whether he was guilty or he was just fulfilling his duties as a cop. However, we found out later that Khalil wasn't heading for his gun. He was going for a hairbrush. That's when I fully understood that Officer Cruise didn't hesitate to shoot him because of his racist ideals. He didn't care to spend a few seconds to make sure whether or not Khalil had a weapon and immediately assumed that he was a threat. These kind of people are what make the rest of society look terrible. After reading stories similar to this one, many people would make the presumption that all cops are terrible at carrying out their job. However, Starr knows that this is not true because her uncle, Carlos, is a cop and I agree with her. Not all cops are bad because they are supposed to protect us and arrest criminals, but cops like Officer Cruise don't do their job well and should be fired. No, scrap that. He should go to jail for his horribly thought actions. Although Khalil sold drugs, he only did it for his mother, and death is not the correct punishment for selling drugs. I empathized with Starr when DeVante reminded her of Khalil. I thought he would meet a similar fate because of their similarities, but I was glad when Starr, her boyfriend and Seven went to King's house to rescue DeVante from his likely outcome. In conclusion, this has become one of my favourite books due to the amount of emotion it made me feel and one day, I may even reread this masterpiece.
Such an important book at an important time in our history. The only reason it doesn’t have five stars from me?? There were a few syrupy sweet moments that were too teen for me. But this is a novel that should be required reading.
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“Right. Lack of opportunities,” Daddy says. “Corporate America don’t bring jobs to our communities, and they damn sure ain’t quick to hire us. Then, shit, even if you do have a high school diploma, so many of the schools in our neighborhoods don’t prepare us well enough. That’s why when your momma talked about sending you and your brothers to Williamson, I agreed. Our schools don’t get the resources to equip you like Williamson does. It’s easier to find some crack than it is to find a good school around here.
“Now, think ’bout this,” he says. “How did the drugs even get in our neighborhood? This is a multibillion-dollar industry we talking ’bout, baby. That shit is flown into our communities, but I don’t know anybody with a private jet. Do you?”
“No.”
“Exactly. Drugs come from somewhere, and they’re destroying our community,” he says. “You got folks like Brenda, who think they need them to survive, and then you got the Khalils, who think they need to sell them to survive. The Brendas can’t get jobs unless they’re clean, and they can’t pay for rehab unless they got jobs. When the Khalils get arrested for selling drugs, they either spend most of their life in prison, another billion-dollar industry, or they have a hard time getting a real job and probably start selling drugs again. That’s the hate they’re giving us, baby, a system designed against us. That’s Thug Life.”
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