The Hate U Give - Blog Posts

recently started reading this book! i’m already in pain, i can tell this will be a frustrating read, but the story is so good ... i skipped school today to study for my finals, and it went well ! i finished a 1000 word essay and made some flashcards for chem 💫

YA Book review- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

BLURB: Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Now what Starr says could destroy her community. It could also get her killed.

I’ve read this book twice now, and both times it blew me away. I don’t live in America so have no idea about the black American experience and this book truly shocked me. Thomas is an immensely talented author and it’s hard to believe that this is her debut novel. The characters are well developed and easy to engage with and relate to. The story is interesting and you can’t help but relate to the main character Starr throughout the entire novel.

I would recommend this book as a must read for everyone, especially those interested in activism and modern American society.

5/5

i finally watched the hate you give and the actress who plays starr looks like my best friend from when i was younger and that shit got me fucked up.

What assigned English class book did you viscerally HATE (the most)? I tried to make it general by some authors since curriculums vary.

Any Charles Dickens book

Any Shakespeare Play

Any Greek Epic

The Great Gatsby

1984

A Scarlet Letter

Lord of the Flies

Frankenstein

Other (if it's farenheit 451, I'll burn you)

I didn't viscerally hate any English class book

I don't know where I am going with this but I literally love every book I read.

Books for ourselves

It is important to remember that books are not always about just telling a story. Books can show us how others live--whether they be Stormtroopers, drug addicts, slaves or someone that has another different story from all the ones that are different from us. 

Yes, we learn about people from their stories, but it doesn’t have to stop there. In understanding one’s life and one’s struggles--we can choose to act, we can choose to push forward, we can choose to help, we can choose to learn more. 

In 15 days it’s Halloween, in 16 days it’s a day of really cheap candy and chocolate, and in 21 days you have the power to vote and make the world how you think it should be. But I hope that’s not your one day of using your voice, your power and the power of listening to someone else’s story. You may not have the best or easiest life, everyone struggles but “a rising tide lifts all boats”--be that tide, raise the condition for everyone