5/9/2023 0 Comments The hate you give angie thomas![]() ![]() Starr’s uncle Carlos, who is also a police officer, encourages her to give her statement to the detectives investigating the shooting. ![]() She realizes that her classmates cannot understand what she went through, reinforcing how different she is from them. Returning to school on Monday, Starr feels uncomfortable around her White boyfriend, Chris, who reminds her of the officer. When Khalil moves to ask Starr if she is ok, the officer shoots him multiple times. Driving away, they discuss Tupac Shakur’s theory of THUG LIFE, an acronym which stands for “The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody.” However, they are soon pulled over by a White police officer who claims Khalil has a broken taillight and proceeds to order him out of the car to search him. When a gang fight at the party results in gunfire, Starr and Khalil leave together in his car. At the party, she reconnects with childhood friend Khalil Harris. ![]() As a result, Starr feels out of touch with her Garden Heights community. A few years before, after witnessing the murder of her friend Natasha in a drive-by shooting, Starr enrolled at Williamson Prep, a private school of mainly White, wealthy students. At the outset of the novel, Starr attends a party in her neighborhood, Garden Heights, which is a primarily Black, lower-income area. The narrator of The Hate U Give is 16-year-old Starr Carter. ![]()
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