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The Hate U Give (The Hate U Give, #1)

Angie Thomas

Start date: October 1, 2017

Finish date: October 31, 2017

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Oct 31, 2017 Richard Derus rated it really liked it

Rating: 4.5* of five

***THIS BOOK IS IN THE FIRST ROUND OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS! HELP VOTE IT THROUGH!***

My review of this astoundingly accomplished, trenchantly imagined, and tendentiously told tale will appear during Booksgiving. Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud or, as I call it, my blog, will offer a bookish gift-giving guide to the perplexed giver from 24 November to 24 December. ...more

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Oct 11, 2017 Tippy rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2017, culture, drugs, crime, race, diversity-in-all-forms-group

So... funny thing. You know how Starr changes her personality when she goes between her two worlds? She has a prep school version of herself and a Garden Heights version? When I sat down to write this, the two versions of me were at war with each other to decide who was going to write this review. You see, professional me was all like "Watch what you say... you know this is public... anyone can read this..." and the rest of me was like "Yeah, but...it's about fuckin' time somebody represents thi ...more

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Oct 08, 2017 Lisa rated it it was amazing

Starr, a 16 year old girl living in a high crime inner city neighborhood in the United States. She is the witness to a close friend's murder by a policeman and has to make the biggest decision of her young life. Should she testify to what happened and risk repercussions for herself and her family? What will happen to her neighborhood? How must she conduct herself at the predominantly white upper middle class private high school that her parents have put her in for her own safety? As she traverse ...more

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Apr 15, 2020 Cam rated it really liked it

This book would make a good discussion book for club book. It touches on the criminal justice system and the black community.

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.

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Jun 26, 2017 Donna rated it it was amazing

Shelves: family-life, fiction, realistic-fiction, mc-literature, african-american, death, friendship, relationships, adult-fiction, young-adult-lit-fiction

What an awesome read!! The story is told through the voice of sixteen-year-old Starr Carter tells a story that we have all read too many times in the news. Starr and her friend Khalil, leave a party after gun shots ring out and while travelling home (Khalil is driving), are pulled over by the police. As Khalil reaches over to get his driver’s license and insurance card, the policeman (white) mistakenly thinks that he is pulling out a gun and shoots Khalil. He dies in the arms of Starr. And here ...more

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Jun 12, 2018 Christina rated it really liked it

Shelves: contemporary, race, social-movements-social-justice, african-american, fiction, young-adult, cultural-african-american, teen, realistic-fiction, lauryn-s-future-reading-list

No one should be a witness to their friend's murder at the hands of a police officer especially when they are not doing anything criminal.

Astounding how realistic the scene is - normal life is going on as planned until a cop decides that he needs to shoot and kill a teenager opening his car door. No questions asked... BANG, BANG, BANG!

Racial profiling... wake up black and you might get shot! This country is right now going through the turmoil of bad cops abusing power and their oath of protect No one should be a witness to their friend's murder at the hands of a police officer especially when they are not doing anything criminal.

Astounding how realistic the scene is - normal life is going on as planned until a cop decides that he needs to shoot and kill a teenager opening his car door. No questions asked... BANG, BANG, BANG!

Racial profiling... wake up black and you might get shot! This country is right now going through the turmoil of bad cops abusing power and their oath of protecting serving. No one of color is safe from the police. NO ONE. Not a kid, not a teenager, definitely not a full grown man. Our color threatens them... they believe we are a superpredator... as if we have the power to overpower them and kill them with superhuman strength. Now we are seen as more than a human/monster vs less than a human/citizen. This though, this racial profiling, getting killed, shot, hung, lynched, whatever you want to call it, is NOT new. This has been happening for decades, generations and beyond. History is only repeating itself in a new technological way. Black people are not surprised... white people have been getting away with murder since we were brought here *scratch that* kidnapped.

It is devastating to see a young man be murdered without cause... only for his reputation to be smeared by the very people who killed him... he's on trial, when he's the one dead... funny how that goes. "The Hate You Give" gives you the eye-witness aftermath of how killings like this affect the community they live in, go to school in, and work in. Everyone is affected.

Tupac coined "Thug Life" meaning - The hate you give little infants f**ks everyone.

When you dismantle a young person's life in ways such as this, they grow up wanting to destroy everything around them. There is no coming back... living a life seeking revenge in ways that they can't even explain. Mothers, fathers being ripped out of homes affects the children who grow up affected and retaliate because of those voids.

This book showcases the aftermath of police brutality. It also parallels a life lived on the other side of the tracks as a black person. How you have to be 2 people... ashamed at how you grew up because you want to be on an equal level as white people or others... you can't be yourself because you will be judged. Not for the content of your character, but by your surroundings.

This book is definitely for young adults. Not an adult book, so if you are looking for something not YA that talks about these issues, this book is not for you. This book comes from a young teenage perspective, language and all. The book may be limited in some areas, but I believe it is designed to do that because it comes from a teenage perspective and needs to stay in the confines of the teenage mind.

Starr, the main character, shows us life after a wrongful shooting of her childhood best friend, and is the eyewitness to his murder. In the face of trying to do the right thing with speaking out in court and protecting her family, she is put into situations she never would have imagined. All while trying to have a relationship with a white boy from school and protesting racial profiling and police brutality.

I would rate this book a 4. ...more

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Feb 19, 2021 Carly rated it really liked it

Very touching book. It made me smile,it made me angry and it made me sad. At the end it made me tear up. This is sadly, very real in communities across America an so much needs to change.
Reading a book like this will give people perspective.
Highly recommend

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