The Hate U Give Sparknotes

Starr and Hailey start out as friends while Starr tries to overlook Hailey’s remarks, preferring to keep the peace between them. As time goes on Starr begins to realize the racial prejudices and difference in privilege in her community, Starr becomes unable to overlook everything that Hailey does. Starr

This code switch changes her manners so that she is a Williamson Starr as she calls it. Williamson Starr does not use slang even if her white friends find it cool or a rapper would say it. “Slang makes her hood.” Starr states that a Williamson Starr is approachable, by “No stank eyes, side-eyes, none of that.” Meaning that she does not react badly to something, makes rude or weird faces, so that she seems friendly.

After Starr leaves Khalil’s funeral, she cries and says to her mom, “They left me” (133). Starr cries to her mom saying they all left me referring to Natasha and Khalil. Her mom wraps her arm around her and says “I know, baby, but we’re here”. We aren't going anywhere”. The Hate U Give should remain in the 9th grade curriculum because of the way it demonstrates the power dynamics between Starr and her mom.

Because their reason for protesting wasn’t moral, they still thought negatively about Khalil since they heard he was a drug dealer. “Since I know why Remy started this protest, I stay in my seat” (122). Starr was aware that their purpose for this protest was not righteous, and she didn’t acknowledge them for their ignorance. She knew the main focus for her classmates taking action was because they just wanted to skip and not attend classes. Not because they wanted justice for Khalil.

During the childhood of “the Narrator,” he experiences mixed reactions to the notion of “passing” one’s identity. The Narrator’s mother, having never told the young boy of his African-American blood, forces the Narrator to unintentionally pass as a young, “perfect little aristocrat” (7). The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man moves quickly to introduce newfound discoveries made by the Narrator. For example, at this point in his life, he is unable to comprehend why “Shiny,” the best student, is seen as inferior due to the color of his skin. The Narrator does not understand such complex ideologies saying, “he was in some way looked down upon” (14). Here, Johnson’s use of the metaphor of passing is more of an indictment on the Narrator’s ignorance when it comes to race. A notable encounter with passing

At the beginning of his article, Jones begins by sharing information from his sheltered home life. As a child, his parents were untrusting towards the violent world created in the 1960’s. Growing up Jones lived a double life. Living a lie on the outside in order to be accepted by others, he often refers to his outer self

She joined the protest for the justice of Khalil. During the protest, Starr proclaimed into the bullhorn that “[she was] the one who saw what happened to Khalil. And it wasn’t right. [The protesters] weren’t doing anything wrong. Not only did Officer Cruise assume [they] were up to no good, he assumed [they] were criminals.

Later on in the story, Starr’s mother tells Starr, “‘Here you are, with a chance to help change what happens in our whole neighborhood, and you stay quiet. Like a coward’” (Thomas 198). Many people want Starr to go public about the racially motivated actions she witnessed that caused the murder of her friend Khalil. Along with that, Starr’s traumatic experience has shown that she has every reason to go public and make a stand against racial aggression, and at times she acknowledges it as well.

This incident sparks events that lead Starr to speak out on the encounter to settle the scores. Starr lives two lives: one in Garden Heights, her hometown, and one at her predominantly white prep school. Latrice Ferguson, from the University of Pennsylvania, explains the duality of Starr’s life perfectly: “...navigating two opposing worlds: white, elite private school, suburban life and an urban, black, close-knit but economically challenged community” (Ferguson). Until Khalil’s shooting, she was able to keep the two separate; however, once she began to speak out against the police and the court’s rulings, her two lives became

The novel follows the aftermath of the shooting and its impact on Starr and her community and, later on, the nation. Racial profiling is discussed a lot throughout the book and is shown in the fatal shooting and other dialogue. Hailey, one of Starr's best friends, comments on Khalil's death. ” He was a drug dealer and a gangbanger’ Hailey says. "Somebody was going to kill him eventually” (Thomas 341)

The search for identity is a seemingly difficult task. There are numerous challenges preventing many from discovering who they are. In Collier’s short story Marigolds, the author uses the narrator’s transformation to show that during stressful times, one's true identity is established. The narrator gives a description of her childhood in the exposition of the story. Lizabeth described her childhood as, “After our few chores around the tumbledown shanty, Joey and I were free to run wild in the sun with other children similarly situated. For the most part, those days are ill-defined in my memory, running together and coming like a fresh water-color painting left out in the rain” (Collier 24). Lizabeth recalls living a leisurely childhood in Maryland. The author’s use of characterization is significant because it gives the reader insight into the life of the narrator. Lizabeth frolics with the other kids in the neighborhood and has a relaxed life. Sometimes Lizabeth harasses Miss Lottie

“Allison’s works portray a segment of Southern society that many people, including Allison, label as poor “white trash,” and she counts herself a member of that society. Allison’s objective in writing about this lower class of poverty-stricken whites includes providing them with an identity that had previously been denied to them or misrepresented. She also wanted to present them with a voice in which to tell their stories. Her works reveal Allison’s strong belief that class plays as large a role in identity formation as gender, race, and sexual orientation.”(1).

Double consciousness refers to the struggle of living on the black side of the veil and defining oneself through the perspective of white society -- a society that rejects the combined aspects of being both black and American. These conditions create an identity crisis for black men and women. W.E.B. Du Bois describes this crisis in the following way: “The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost (DuBois 1903).” The root of the problem is a lack of self-consciousness or self-definition. Thus, this essay will focus on the characters within Sula that exemplify

The feeling of being judged for the experiences an individual faces can be detrimental to the person 's personality by that these experiences result in you trying to become someone you are not so that you hide what society feels is your flaw, your race. Starr lives in two completely separate worlds, Garden Heights and the area surrounding Williamson High School. These two worlds hinders Starr’s ability to voice her opinions and thoughts about anything because in both of these areas there is this fear of overstepping boundaries. Overstepping boundaries in either area causes an individual to become threatened, for example, in Garden Heights, Starr silences herself whenever she is around gang members because she is frightened that the gang members will harm both her and her family for her opinions. Starr silences herself when she is at Williamson High School, especially since she is one out of the few African Americans that attends there, because her opinion is outnumbered by the majority of the population who are either ignorant about the issues that affects Starr’s race or cares less to even hear issues that occurs to others beside them.

One night she is catching up with an old childhood friend and while stopped at a stop light, she experience death and police brutality as her unarmed friend is shot and killed. Starr has the now deal with this major thing that has happened in her life as she is the only witness in this situation. We see a cultural rebellion, young woman trying to find her voice, and the typical struggles of high school life within this beautifully intimate first person narrative. Through her perspective, we see how the media is presenting young black men and how the urban wars, that are happening right now, are affecting all those around.