![]() Though Thomas’s story is heartbreakingly topical, its greatest strength is in its authentic depiction of a teenage girl, her loving family, and her attempts to reconcile what she knows to be true about their lives with the way those lives are depicted-and completely undervalued-by society at large. Specifically, his poem The Rose that Grew from Concrete is a metaphor for young people who. According to Angie, another significant Tupac reference in this story comes from his poetry. Starr’s voice commands attention from page one, a conflicted but clear-eyed lens through which debut author Thomas examines Khalil’s killing, casual racism at Williamson, and Starr’s strained relationship with her white boyfriend. The Hate U Give’s title was inspired by rapper Tupac Shakur and the iconic Thug Life tattoo across his chest. That version of herself-“Williamson Starr”-“doesn’t give anyone a reason to call her ghetto.” She’s already wrestling with what Du Bois called “double consciousness” when she accepts a ride home from Khalil, a childhood friend, who is then pulled over and shot dead by a white cop. The Hate U Give A Printz Honor Winner By Angie Thomas, Foreword by Amandla Stenberg On Sale: 14.99 Now: 11.99 Spend 49 on print products and get FREE shipping at HC. But at Williamson Prep, where she’s among a handful of black students, she can’t be herself either: no slang, no anger, no attitude. ![]() At home in a neighborhood riven with gang strife, Starr Carter, 16, is both the grocer’s daughter and an outsider, because she attends private school many miles away. ![]()
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