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Racial injustice has been an issue over the past decades. So, when choosing books to read, I focus on pieces that address these issues. For instance, I particularly enjoyed The Hate U Give a fiction novel portraying the racial and systematic injustices African Americans face...
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In Chapter seven of The Hate U Give, Starr says the only thing worse than being thought of as the angry black girl is being the weak black girl. This essay argues that Starr is really afraid of being considered weak; she feels like she...
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Worlds of individuals can be shifted by the events of tragedy. In Angie Thomas’s novel “The Hate U Give,” she explains the views and lives of individuals that grow from tragedy. Thomas’s interpretation of tragedy is formed through real-life events in the United States, from...
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Critically acclaimed film director, George Tillman Jr. hit the ground running the day his film: “The Hate U Give” made it on the big screen. Based on the book, by best selling author, Angie Thomas, Tillman depicts the life of sixteen-year-old Starr Carter who finds...
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Two of the most significant themes throughout the novels The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates by Wes Moore, and Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by JD Vance III were the...
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Introduction In the book The Hate U Give, the author Angie Thomas puts us in the view point of Starr, a teenage girl born and raised in Garden Heights. Which is a lower class black neighborhood where she was forced to witness the murder of...
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The Hate U Give is a young adult novel by Angie Thomas. It follows events in the life of a 16-year-old black girl, Starr Carter, who is drawn to activism after she witnesses a police officer shooting her childhood friend. Angie Thomas demonstrates the complexities...
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Imagine if you were to be mistreated due to the color of your shirt or hair. This is what’s happened in the past and what’s happening right now. The book The Hate you Give is about young kids that live in the ghetto that get...
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On August 28, 2018, a former white Texas police officer, Roy Oliver was found guilty for shooting a 15 year old black boy, Jordan Edwards who was unarmed. In the book “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas, Starr Carter, a 16 year old black...
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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas has become a rising issue among many school boards. While showing opinion towards the black lives matter movement. Many people are starting to have realization of this problem and have started standing up for their rights, not only...
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Hidden Figures tells the story of 3 African-American women working at NASA and how they worked as “human computers” to defy racial and gender stereotypes and help America get back in the Space Race. Their worked played vital role in the launch and they went...
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Racial injustice is common in the modern-day world, it mostly happens to people of colour. Its when someone gets mistreated or discriminated because of their race. The book The Hate You Give is written by the author Angie Thomas. In this book, the main character,...
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In 1961 Martin Luther King Jr. declared, “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” King expresses the importance of speaking up for what one believes in and the consequences of remaining silent. This concept is just as applicable...
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Racial discrimination is a longstanding problem in the United States. Racism goes way back in time which begins with slavery and then the civil war follows on. After the war, the racist legacy of slavery would persist, which spurs the brave movements of resistance including...
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates and The Hate U Give share similar themes, although the characters have different decisions to make. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates, provides the reader with themes of racism, second chances, choices, and opportunities. Both...