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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
5.0
“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
This book is ALLLL THE FEELS!!!! It is endearing, painful, and emotion-provoking.
Through the eyes of 16 year old Starr, we witnessed the murder of her two best friends. When Starr was 10, her best friend, Natasha was killed during a gang drive-by and now her other best friend, Khalil is gunned down by police. As he dies in her arms, the office points his gun at her head. She is forever changed but we follow her transformation from frightened and overwhelmed to finding her strength in her voice. Her two worlds collide over police brutality and violence, social injustice and black family and community.
She is a good student at a wealthy prep school that is majority-white but lives in the “hood” as she calls it, with her Daddy who is a former gang-member and mother and siblings. They are a loving protective family. My favorite scenes were the love within her family and the extended family. When her Daddy was in jail for 3 years, her Uncle Carlos became her other daddy who helped to raise her. He still is protective of her. But she learns that the young black men of her community including her best friend are in gangs. Is it by choice or is survival? This is how her “other” world views her home community.
After reading this book, I can understand why riots happened. When we ask “Rioting ? Why not peaceful protest?”. Riots depict the deep-seated anger that Black American feel for generations upon generations. Angie can evoke these feelings from me and I am not black. But I am angry and ashamed. She mentions Dr. King vs Malcolm X and the Black Panthers. This book does not bash police, but it points out the flaws in the system that seem to not be able to correct itself. Even today, it is still a severely broken system. Justice has not prevailed in so many instances in real life. But now more than ever black voices are being heard. We must support change and to change. We must uplift BIPOC and by doing so, uplift ourselves.
Thomas is able to weave so many different themes of social injustice within her novel. From white friends who say racist comments, to police not wanting to cross the blue line and protecting only their own, to young black males are automatically thugs instead of human beings. She explores the reasons why young men join gangs many times due to survive.
This is my favorite book of the year! Every single scene and every single character is necessary. This story is IMPORTANT & POWERFUL. There were times I would read a scene over and over, sometimes crying, screaming and my favorite scenes caused me to laugh loudly. I tandem read the physical & audiobook, Bahni Turpin is an incredible narrator.
This book is ALLLL THE FEELS!!!! It is endearing, painful, and emotion-provoking.
Through the eyes of 16 year old Starr, we witnessed the murder of her two best friends. When Starr was 10, her best friend, Natasha was killed during a gang drive-by and now her other best friend, Khalil is gunned down by police. As he dies in her arms, the office points his gun at her head. She is forever changed but we follow her transformation from frightened and overwhelmed to finding her strength in her voice. Her two worlds collide over police brutality and violence, social injustice and black family and community.
She is a good student at a wealthy prep school that is majority-white but lives in the “hood” as she calls it, with her Daddy who is a former gang-member and mother and siblings. They are a loving protective family. My favorite scenes were the love within her family and the extended family. When her Daddy was in jail for 3 years, her Uncle Carlos became her other daddy who helped to raise her. He still is protective of her. But she learns that the young black men of her community including her best friend are in gangs. Is it by choice or is survival? This is how her “other” world views her home community.
After reading this book, I can understand why riots happened. When we ask “Rioting ? Why not peaceful protest?”. Riots depict the deep-seated anger that Black American feel for generations upon generations. Angie can evoke these feelings from me and I am not black. But I am angry and ashamed. She mentions Dr. King vs Malcolm X and the Black Panthers. This book does not bash police, but it points out the flaws in the system that seem to not be able to correct itself. Even today, it is still a severely broken system. Justice has not prevailed in so many instances in real life. But now more than ever black voices are being heard. We must support change and to change. We must uplift BIPOC and by doing so, uplift ourselves.
Thomas is able to weave so many different themes of social injustice within her novel. From white friends who say racist comments, to police not wanting to cross the blue line and protecting only their own, to young black males are automatically thugs instead of human beings. She explores the reasons why young men join gangs many times due to survive.
This is my favorite book of the year! Every single scene and every single character is necessary. This story is IMPORTANT & POWERFUL. There were times I would read a scene over and over, sometimes crying, screaming and my favorite scenes caused me to laugh loudly. I tandem read the physical & audiobook, Bahni Turpin is an incredible narrator.