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Brief Summary Of 'The Hate U Give'

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Pow. Three shots was all it took and Starr’s life changed forever. Three shots that changed everyone’s life. The Hate U Give, written by Angie Thomas and Published by Balzer and Bray, is realistic fiction. This book is about the chain affects of the shooting of Khalil and what Starr does after to protect his. Starr, the main character, lives in projects called Garden Heights, infested with gangs, drugs and drive-bys. When she goes to her suburban white prep school, Starr is no longer Garden Heights Starr, she is Williamson Prep Starr. The first incident that causes Starr’s journey is when her friend Khalil is shot by a white police officer for no justifiable reason after they leave a party where a fight breaks out. The story intensifies when April Ofrah suggests Starr speak up, and she does. Starr is interviewed on live T.V. and when asked what she would say if Officer 115 was there, she replied, “I’d ask him if he wished he shot me too.” This leads up to the climax, a riot in Garden Heights. Many character’s contribute to Starr’s story. She herself is the insecure"If bravery is a medical condition, everyone's misdiagnosed me." End: "We want freedom [...] We want the power to determine the destiny of our black and oppressed communities [...]"
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Khalil, though he hated drugs, sold them to pay off his mother's debt to King (biggest drug dealer in Garden Heights) after she stole drugs. He was a tall and light-skinned childhood friend to Starr and her family. Even though his mom was a drug dealer, he helped and was trying his best to pull his mom out of a drug-dealer's lifestyle. Unfortunately, his character never got a chance to develop, but he helped Starr change, and that's almost just as good. "'Pac said Thug Life stood for 'The Hate U Give Little Infants F***s Everybody' [...] Meaning what society gives us as youth, it bites them in the a** when we wild

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