What is a symbol in the hate you give?

Thomas may have chosen roses for Maverick’s garden as a reference to Tupac’s poem “The Rose that Grew from Concrete,” which is widely interpreted as celebrating the success of poor black children who grow up with very few resources.

The hairbrush represents both the blinding power and senselessness of racism. One-Fifteen alleges that he shot Khalil because he mistook his hairbrush for a gun.

Starr’s Hoodie The hoodie Starr is wearing at Big D’s party the night Khalil is shot represents the real life Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. BLM is a resistance movement formed in response to the 2012 shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin.

Studying shoes in The Hate U Give encourages a reading that puts race relations at the fore- front of the novel. Shoes come to represent the tightrope that Starr walks to maintain her two identities.

According to epicreads.com, “Pac said ‘Thug Life’ stood for ‘The Hate U Give Little Infants F—ks Everybody. ‘ T-H-U-G-L-I-F-E. Meaning what society gives us as youth, bites them back in the a— when they wild out.” When Angie Thomas was deciding on the main character’s name she decided to use Tupac’s inspiration.

Starr condemns both King and One-Fifteen on television. Climax Starr testifies before the grand jury, finally bringing to light the full truth of what happened the night Khalil died. After this testimony, Starr has done all she can do to seek justice for Khalil.

Although he dies in chapter two, Khalil plays an important symbolic role in The Hate U Give. Specifically, Khalil’s murder dramatizes the process of dehumanization and demonization of young black men in the wider news media that allows them to become scapegoats for the violence in their communities.

Starr’s PTSD symbolizes the long-term effects of violence on the emotional well-being of black children. That Starr has a condition associated with war means that police and gang violence turn black neighborhoods into war-like zones.

Starr describes her family as more like “Christlims.” Her mother was raised a member of Christ Temple Church. Her father believes in Black Jesus but “follows the Black Panthers’ Ten-Point Program more than the Ten Commandments”.

The reason why Khalil was shot in the movie was because there was a hairbrush in his hand and he was in the motion of combing his hair when the cop thought he saw a gun. On the contrary, in the book, Khalil is opening the door to check on Starr when he gets shot. There is no mention of a hairbrush until later.

Starr and Khalil laugh about Seven’s overprotectiveness and reminisce about another old friend, Natasha, noting that the three of them used call themselves “tighter than the inside of Voldemort’s nose.” Khalil says how strange it feels that it has been “six years.” Just then, police sirens flash in the rear window.

Placement and movement. White starts with the king on e1, on the first rank to the right of the queen. Black starts with the king on e8, directly across from the white king. The kings always start on a square of opposite color.

Hailey asks why Starr lied, arguing that Starr owes her an apology because Starr accused her of racism simply because she was upset about Khalil. Maya comments that Hailey has done racist things. Hailey claims she unfollowed Starr’s Tumblr because she didn’t want to see violent photographs.

Mr. Lewis snitches on King on live television and is later beaten up by King Lords. At the end of the story he retires and gives his store to Maverick so that Maverick can continue to be a good influence on Garden Heights.

“The Hate U Give” takes its title and central philosophy from a concept espoused by Tupac Shakur: To the rapper, who had “THUG LIFE” tattooed in capital letters on his torso, that phrase was an acronym for a vicious cycle of societal violence.

Rosalie, Khalil’s grandmother. Ms. Rosalie tells Starr that she was “the very best friend” Khalil ever had, and Starr protests that she and Khalil “weren’t as close—” (64).

Maverick “Big Mav” Carter. Starr’s father Maverick inspires Starr with his pride in being black. Maverick’s outlook on life draws inspiration from the Black Power Movement, in particular Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party.

Children who sleep on the floor instead of their bed after a trauma do so because they fear the comfort of a bed will let them sleep so hard that they won’t hear danger coming. Become irritable, aggressive, act tough, provoke fights. Verbalize a desire for revenge.

Khalil began dealing drugs because of his family’s poverty, which resulted from the lack of opportunities his family had and his mother’s addiction to drugs. After One-Fifteen shoots Khalil, Khalil’s drug dealing becomes justification for his death.

What happened to Starr’s grandfather? He was assassinated.

Starr feels like she can be herself with Chris, rather than “Williamson Starr.” When Chris grabs her hand, however, she flashes back to Khalil’s shooting, unable to separate Chris’s whiteness from One-Fifteen’s. She recoils.

Khalil opens the door to check on Starr. One-Fifteen fatally shoots Khalil.

Chapter 12 Quotes “That’s the so-called gun,” Ms. Ofrah explains. “Officer Cruise claims he saw it in the car door, and he assumed Khalil was reaching for it. The handle was thick enough, black enough, for him to assume it was a gun.”

Ms. Ofrah reveals that the “gun” the media has been mentioning was nothing more than Khalil’s hairbrush. In the darkness, the handle looked thick enough—and, Maverick adds, Khalil was black enough—that One-Fifteen allegedly mistook it for a weapon.

This is done to signify that he was involved with the King Lords, which Starr previously suspected. Enraged, Khalil’s grandmother throws the bandana back at King, and Maverick has to convince him to leave the funeral. In the movie, Khalil’s funeral passes without any upset from the King Lords.

Seven is fiercely protective of both Starr and his other sister Kenya, but has a strained relationship with his mother Iesha, whom he feels always chooses her boyfriend King over her son, and eventually kicks him out of the house. … Even so, he feels it is his duty to protect his mother.

Hailey is Starr’s oldest friend at Williamson, the two having grown close when Hailey’s mother died of cancer around same time that Natasha was killed. Their friendship unravels over the course of the novel, however.

One-Fifteen says he has pulled them over for a broken taillight and asks where they are coming from, to which Khalil responds with “nunya.” One-Fifteen demands that Khalil get out of the car, pins his arm behind his back, and proceeds to search him.

Seven Carter Starr’s older half-brother, son of Maverick and Iesha. Seven is the oldest of the Carter children and fiercely protects all his siblings. He worries particularly for Kenya and Lyric, his half-sisters through Iesha, because of their dangerous home environment with King.

In the psalms, God’s universal kingship is repeatedly mentioned, such as in psalm 47:2 where God is referred to as the “great King over all the earth”. Worshippers were supposed to live for God since God was the king of All and King of the Universe.

King asks where DeVante is. Maverick claims DeVante disappeared. King threatens Maverick over Starr’s testimony because King doesn’t want the police knowing more information about Khalil’s dealings.

Because of the emotional fallout from Khalil’s murder, Starr misses Chris. Starr had initially gotten angry at Chris because he took out a condom while they made out. She previously told Chris she was not ready for sex because of her fear of getting pregnant, and so was angry at him for having a condom.

Starr remembers playing in the street with Natasha and getting caught in a gang-related shooting. Starr fell into a rose bush but survived. Natasha died. Natasha and Khalil’s deaths blur together in Starr’s mind.

These two images are a physical illustration of the double consciousness experienced by black characters in the novel; Starr can see Khalil both as he was and as white society sees him. Hailey calls Starr a liar for pretending not to know Khalil, and demands an apology for being called racist.