Hate U Give, The

This is not just a book, not just a story, not just a plot, not just a character. Rather, it's a hard, powerful, loud smack in the face of age-long injustice, brutality, inhumanity of White people on minor Black people. The book is inspired by the #/BlackLivesMatter movement, where sixteen year old Starr, witnesses her best friend, who is an unarmed black boy, be killed by a police officer. Starr is scared to speak up, constantly battling what to do, because more than one attempts are made to shut her up and there's never any justice for this heartless killings. The book is a journey of Starr where she understood how much value her voice holds. There's no necessity for my Baba to teach me when I was a kid that how I'd be alert if a policeman comes near me. Because simply he trusts them, and he knows no matter what, they're meant to save us if we've done nothing wrong. But it shook me to the core that at some place, a kid of seven years old or less than that, getting a lesson from her Dad that how she'd outstretch her hands clear infront so that the cops could see it and never do something which they don't want to, because the hands which are supposed to protect them also, have an age-long history of killing them, just because their skin is black. And this ruthless killings are still happening even in 2021. Everytime the incidents are same, just a different name. Sometimes it's George Floyd, sometimes it's Stephon Clark, sometimes it's Michael Brown, sometimes it's Carlos Carson and the list goes on. It horrifies me that everyone of them, were unarmed when they got killed and was doing nothing wrong. On top of that, most of the killer cops got no punishment at all. I've realized now, that how much pain, anger, and frustration the author must've felt growing up in between all of this and she poured all of those in these 444 pages. While reading those pages, I could feel those frustrations, to such an extent that I wanted to scream out loud, bang my head on wall in anger or cry out badly just by reading this. I've never experienced a book giving me the chance to feel all the existing emotions in the world all at once. What if, I was one of them, I can't think! Lastly, I'd say, racism is not a foreign topic, if I've to be real honest here. Even in India, people judge others on the basis of their skin colour obviously not at the cost of someone's life, not that extreme. But we all can agree why till now brands like Fair & lovely exists. Even in 2021, beauty equals to fairness?! Think.

I know i’m late but this is what i call something epic, truly honest, striking, inspirational & phenomenal story i’ve ever read ! but it’s also depressing that we get to see a lot of injustice going on in our society & the hate we give to each other that can’t be ignored Starr a young high school girl witnesses something which is unfair, unacceptable & mostly unforgettable. Khalil young & honest boy masked as THUG by this world as been shot to death by a police cop for no particular reason (maybe he’s black that’s what his fault is ?) ! Will starr ever have a Voice & fights for her best friend,will Khalil ever get justice ¿ It unmasks the ugly truths through which our society is driven into darkness, it speaks bout racism, injustice, drugs, thugs, violence.......... Apart from all these what i loved is that this book is a truth, a fact that need to be told ! & Angie Thomas did it she’s truly the diamond shining on every page, on every line of the book. i love the father & daughter relationship particularly it’s extra cute & lovely to read i would like to highlight few quotes from the book which i loved the most. ~Faith isn’t just believing but taking steps towards that belief. ~Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared, it means you go on even though you’re scared. ~sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. the key is to never stop doing right. Damn this book is the powerhouse for inspiration ! Chapter 16 is my favorite....just saying in case you wanna know.

Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right. IG pressure! Well, that is what made me buy The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. Having seen it all over bookstagram for months and months and bookmarking it on GR, I only bought it last year as a part of my now much-mentioned birthday haul. Although I read it weeks ago, I just got round to writing this review because, well, let’s not go there. It’s a rant in itself. Anyway, just forgive me if I am not using all the names, because frankly, I have forgotten. I only remember the names of the lead and the other important character, so there you go. Starr is a regular girl. A teenager who disagrees with her mom, a sister who fights with her brothers, a daughter who defies her father, and a girl with a boyfriend. A black girl with a white boyfriend (if just the mention of this last line doesn’t make you feel nauseous at the state of the world we live in, I think you should stop and go back to whatever else that it is you were doing and not read my review) So Starr, our girl, reconnects with her once best friend Khalil at a party in their neighborhood, years after being out of touch. Reason? To begin with, she goes to a fancy white school while he is still doing classes at their community school, the breeding ground for all kinds of gangs. After an unfortunate accident the party creates chaos and Starr finds herself in Khalil’s car, speeding away from the scene. Just when she thinks they are now safe, they are flagged down by a cop and what happens next, changes Starr’s life and that of her family and her community. Khalil’s death was no accident, it was murder, a cold-blooded one at that. An unarmed boy is killed just because a cop felt threatened by a hairbrush? A gun was pointed at Starr’s head just because she cradled a dying Khalil? What is fair, what isn’t, Starr loses all of it. Her mind, her friends at her school which she tried way too hard to adjust to, and yet, she can’t speak. Her family comes at a risk. Her life is engulfed the same way her father’s store is gutted. She is the only one who could stop all of it, yet, she can’t speak. If you think racism didn’t exist anymore, just look sideways with open eyes and mind. If you think the world has come a long way from slavery, just look into your homes, and see if your help is being treated like a human. If you think people cry fake wolf, maybe they aren’t wrong, maybe the real wolf is you. Starr is the star of the book, and with her, her family, which is as real as it could get. I loved how the relationships are dealt with. Close but not overbearing, loving but not overprotective. Their disagreements are real and their fights with each other and for each other are real. Their fear is real. Their want to have a better life is real. Their problems are real. Their struggles are real. Their weaknesses are real and their strength is real. And their fight for justice real. With much praise of this book already being written, the next thing I am going to say might be offensive to some, but democracy, right? I have the right to speak my mind too. So while the author expertly brings into light the racism that black folks have to suffer and the consequences of that racism which only they have to suffer, I feel she forgot that the same aforementioned folks have their own prejudices against people not like them. Yes, their acceptance of others come easy as compared to their acceptance by the others, but I can’t seem to ignore that they too do what their tormentors do, albeit in lower degrees. The end can not justify the means. Having said all this, I must add that there is no specific gender, caste, creed, or race to be cruel and inhuman. It is all in the head. If you see people as people, you are good, man. If you see people as being defined by any of the above criteria, boss, you have to rethink your ideologies. Now tell me, have you ever faced racism/prejudice? Have you ever been made to feel less worthy by someone/something because you aren’t as white as the other? Have you ever fought against it? Or did you just feel not worthy of even fighting for yourself? If the answer to all the questions is yes, then this book is for you. If the answer to all the questions is no, then this is definitely the book for you. THUG is not just about America and its people. It is about every damn country in the world and every single citizen of those countries. It is an eye-opener, that the hate we give, comes back to whoop our own asses. THUG life will come to thug you one day. What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?

The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas is a must read for everyone! The story is about sixteen years old, Starr Amara Carter, who lives in an impoverished area called Garden Heights, where gang leaders, drug dealers are terms used in their day-to-day life. She studies in a private school called Williamsons where she is the only black girl in her class. Starr dates her classmate Chris,who is white. In a party that happened in Garden Heights, she meets her childhood friend Khalil Harris, who gets shot by a white police officer when they head back home. Khalil was unarmed, and he obeyed whatever the police officer said, but he was brutally murdered. The story is how Starr copes up with her friend's death and how she fights to bring justice for her best friend. This is not a story which is totally against the police force as you can see kind cops like Starr's uncle Carlos in the story. The novel is highly engaging, captivating and heart wrenching. This soul stirring story is a must read to realize how a particular group of people is marginalized for their race, class or societal status and how they are oppressed and deprived of all their rights. Whoever they are, they deserved to live. All lives matter! The author has written in the author's note that how she had to live a dual life or had two versions of herself like Starr. The Garden Heights Starr and the Williamson Starr. Angie Thomas too lived in a community like Starr's and tried to sync into the other world. She got inspiration for the novel from the famous American rapper, Tupac Shakur and his song, The Hate You Give Little Infants F**ks Everybody - THUG LIFE.

Now this is an amazing book. I love the story, the narration, everything.

The book follows Starr, a 16-year old girl who has witnessed the unjust murders of two of her best friends. Khalil, one of her best friends got shot by a white policeman because he thought they were upto no good because of their skin colour. . I don't wanna say much about it because I think it will spoil it. It was heartbreaking to read and feel all that was happening in the book. This book has so much depth to it. All the characters and scenes in it felt so real. Everything was just so real. This book left a huge mark on me. I taught me to see the world from an entirely different perspective. Racism still exists in our world in one way or the other. And not only it destroys someone's life but also changes everything for everyone around them. This book depicts that message just so perfectly. God I can't even express all that I'm feeling about this book. But I guess you won't know how much good this book is until you read it and feel it for yourself. One thing I wanna say is that I have never had such a strong feeling that I'm feeling for this book right now. Never. . Okay that's it. I will never stop if I continue writing more about it. I highly highly recommend this masterpiece to everyone. Do give this one a try. You won't be disappointed, I assure you.❤️

Good paper quality. Readable font. Gives some insight about black lives in America, not an amazing read or anything.

This book. This has the power to shake you out of your senses. It brings you out of that little bubble you've been living in, and brings you face to face with things that make you shudder and makes you realise that that's the world that some people have been living in since an extremely long time. No words are wasted. You can't help but fall in love with the characters who neither are amazingly perfect, nor spookily cringy. They are relatable to another level. They are the people whom you'll find in your family, neighborhood, school colleges and everywhere. This book. This story. Angie Thomas is the Queen of Writing. This story is to-the-point, along with things and feelings that act like the cherry in top of this AMAZING story. No incident is unnecessary. No rubbish love traiangles FORCED into the story. No unnecessary bullying the protagonist faces or unnecessary sympathy that she recieves, just because she's Black. She isn't some superhero who knows how to suffer silently. She's strong, and she also brokedown when she couldn't handle things. Everything is balanced, and is not boring AT ALL. The story keeps you on the edge and is unputdownable, literally. Everything is relevant, and purely perfect. Something that shouldn't be missed, definitely.