No oversight or slight was intended.) The Posters (Note: This came out a couple weeks ago in limited release and I just missed it because the official release date I was using to plan my recaps listed 10/19.
Both halves of her life, though, are pressuring in different ways and she has to find the courage to carry on despite all that. Starr is angry and sad and finds she wants to speak up and fight back against the kind of system that would allow such a thing to happen. That balance is disrupted when her friend Khalil (Algee Smith) is shot by a police officer. She balances both worlds in various ways, being part of each community when she can. The Hate U Give is an important and powerful prose delivered in the language of a teenager and the narrative of a victimized community.Based on the groundbreaking book by Audrey Wells The Hate U Give tells the story of Starr (Amandla Stenberg), a young black woman who lives in the poor part of time but goes to school at an elite – and mostly white – high school. Angie Thomas has fashioned a tale so relevant to today’s times that the reader is angered with the nonchalance displayed by the whites, with the people who try to reason out Khalil’s shooting, and grieves along with Starr’s quite ordinary friends and family as they hurtle through extraordinary experiences and circumstances. The book follows Starr up to the pivotal moment, when she summons up the courage to make a statement to a grand jury as the world outside waits for a verdict. The Hate U Give traces the immense grief and anger complexing the works of a young girl’s mind, amidst violent racism and protests that spark across the country due to the indifference of the police department. His death is justified by a vast majority and Starr learns how even her best friend in school is one of them. An aggrieved Starr listens to the national news of her friend’s murder, where he is labelled as a drug dealer, a thug, and a gangbanger. But these lines become vividly prominent to Starr as she witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood friend Khalil, by a white police officer. She is quite an expert at balancing between both arenas, so much so, that racial borders have blurred out all binaries for her. The novel follows 16-year-old Starr who lives in a gang-ravaged, black-dominated area and goes to a suburban white-dominated school. The book may be positioned as a Young Adult (YA) novel, but it addresses one of the most pertinent evils of today’s civilization, racial discrimination and stigmatised behaviour to one particular community. The Hate U Give is a poignant depiction of police brutality in America and is drawn from one of today’s most fierce revolutions, the Black Lives Matter movement.
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