The Hate U Give
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Average rating4.5
I will start by saying that I don't believe it would be an exaggeration to say this is one of the most important books I have ever read.
Before reading this novel I read Blackkklansman (another enjoyable read, just more informational/historical) and I think the major difference between the two and the punch they pack is that it's not just about seeing the N* word written out in quotes or the sheet wearing racists...it's about seeing the system that holds them together empowering them.
That is not to say that it is without faults, or that it is the best writing of all time, but it is a homage to racial problems in America in a perspective that I had not experienced.
I believe that kids in school should be given this as part of actual curriculum and that discussions should be urged more regularly on the topic of race. I feel like we still treat race as if it's shameful or secretive, and therefore, kept quiet. To me, that's what this book opened the doors to.
It is as much a story about a coming of age as it is a story about unbelievable trauma. You not only feel with Starr, you grow with her and learn along the way. It is a story about not judging a book by its cover (sorry) as seen through the unjust deaths of unarmed black teens (often portrayed in media as thugs without any concept of where or who they've been), the powerful fathering from an ex-con, and the unwavering support from an uncle who happens to be a cop. It's a story that describes race, racism, a systematic prejudice in a way only a minority can. This book is an opportunity to see through the eyes of someone that is not like you, and to actually understand the weight of that difference. I found that to be an invaluable lesson I had not received elsewhere.
I thought it's aim to describe racism, prejudice, capitalism, and poverty in a systematic way—a system that clearly needs remodeling!—was absolutely a success.
For that I give it 5*s
THE HATE U GIVE LITTLE INFANTS FUCKS EVERYBODY
“Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.”
This reading experience was very emotional. I found Starr and her family very compelling as characters. I'm glad I waited until the hype died down to read it so I could enjoy it unclouded by the different opinions.
Great read. It packs a punch - and I'm kinda in love with Starr's family now.
“‘Funny. Slave masters thought they were making a different in black people's lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving.'”
this book is so fucking important. everyone in the whole world needs to read this. this gives the reader a lot of insight on the black lives matter movement and what is actually means. i must say, THUG opened my mind up a lot.
I wanted to read this before seeing the movie, and I'm glad I did. Its a good book with a good perspective that more people should read.
“Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.”
A painfully honest and incredibly well-written book. Definitely one of the best books I've ever read and a must-read for everyone. Just amazing.
⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Hate U Give is a really book about not police brutality, but about racism, protesting and family.
The writing and dialogue in The Hate U Give feels real. I really felt for the characters and the dialogue is authentic. I loved their relationships with each other and how they cared for their neighborhood. They all felt real because of the writing.
A peek into the inner-city neighborhood. I felt like this book gave me a glimpse into inner city life and why things are the way they are. I especially liked what Starr's father said about people leaving, but never coming back. I feel this was the best part about this book.
This book is very important and I'm glad it's getting movie and should be a requirement read for schools.
This book should actually be compulsory at school. It's simple and powerful, relevant and memorable. It's fiction but at the same time it is as true and real life-like as it can be.
The Hate U Give is about pain and loss and injustice. It's also about courage and community. It's really important that stories like these be told and read and published.
Where to even begin with this amazing book...
I'll make this a short and to the point review, because there are already so many great reviews out there for this book.
This is an extremely powerful book, one I have already recommended to other people. The writing is phenomenal – it sounds so, so realistic and the dialogue suited the ages represented! The music brought up is mostly old school, but considering which music is really talked about, I can't fault it.
I was gripped from the first page and it was honestly hard putting this book down. When I did, I was always a little scared to pick it up, because I didn't want anything bad to happen to the characters. I became so invested.
This book is timely and I think talks about everything respectfully – bringing up the oppressed voices without insulting other people.
I believe every library should have a copy of this book and it could even become required reading in schools. Amazing book.
Tear-jerking and powerful novel from a perspective we never hear in news coverage about police involved shootings.
To add context I am half white and half black. Most of my family comes from the projects/ghetto even my white family.
I'm giving this a 3.75/5 stars. I really enjoyed the black culture aspect of this and thought it was very accurate to real life. The things the characters would say and even how they talked is very realistic. I also enjoyed how drug and gang activity was shown and talked about in a respectful way. The characters were so amazing and had me laughing my butt off. Starr is amazing and I love her family, especially her brother. The family aspect is very strong in this book and I like how it spreads to more than just immediate family which is pretty accurate as well. The pop culture references were also fantastic. There is also the aspect of Starr having a white boyfriend and interacting with white people that added an interesting dynamic to the book that I really enjoyed. It showed how people of different races who have extreme cultural differences can fight, get torn apart, but also get along
The reason I knocked this down over a whole star is because this book is supposed to stand up against racism when some of the lines it says are racist towards white people. I really don't understand that in today's culture. It may be accurate but so is the gang stuff and one is seen as okay and the other is negative. I don't get why black people think they are the only people to ever be enslaved. Irish slaves were the first slaves sent to America. And what about Jews. They have been persecuted time and time again and you don't see them rioting and destroying their own cities, as well as talking bad about another race. Just because our ancestors were enslaved by other people's ancestors doesn't mean that we have the right to talk ill of them. I am in no way saying we should just get over it. We should fight for what our ancestors believed and fought so hard for because there is still racism in this world. But Black people can be racist too and that is just fighting fire with fire. I see more racism towards white people these days than coming from them.
I just felt like this book basically added to that and almost promoted it in a way. I also found the Black Jesus thing super annoying because like Jesus doesn't have a race if you believe in him. Basically, in this book, the main character's family would always refer to Jesus as Black Jesus and had portraits of ‘Black Jesus' Also, the fact that the actual historical figure came from the middle east proves that most likely he wasn't the majority black. So just because you want to promote your race doesn't mean that you can change the race of historical/biblical figures.
Overall I think this book is good and has a good message but it has problems that not many people talk about and bring up big political and social issues, that nobody talks about. All lives matter.
The main character had a strong voice, however, the book was rather predictable and didn't offer as much as a different perspective as I had hoped.
A completely immersive look at an important social issue. This novel gives an honest look at economic and racial inequality and how it affects the lives of American youth. I know I learned a lot from it, and am grateful it exists.
Incredible. This book is so captivating while being so informative and powerful. We all judge people based on stereotypes we “know” about them and this book highlights the importance of just how wrong we often are. I am inspired by Starr and this story. Highly recommend!
É um daqueles livros que você termina e pensa: “Que prazer em ter lido, como ele adicionou à minha vida”. Não sei nem dizer o quanto esse livro é necessário.
This book ..... was amazing and impactful. It is definitely something everyone should read.
So, yes, I've been reading this for forever. But that doesn't take away from the fact that this is a brilliant, inspiring read. I loved this book and I'm so happy I decided to read it besides its daunting 13 hours worth of listening time as an audiobook.
The characters are memorable and the plot is original. It made me cry at time and I commend the author for all she accomplished through this book. The audiobook narrator was an excellent performer and I certainly recommend this as an audiobook as well.
This book is important and it is well-written. Read it.
Wow beautiful
I love this big so much. Is what we are going through now. This book opened up my eyes to see more and see a how people life with hate and love. I'm from crazy block but not like she was. Please keep coming with books like this.
This is the story of 16-year-old Starr, a girl who witnesses her life-long friend get killed by a police officer while unarmed. She balances between two worlds while the murder makes national news: the one where she lives surrounded by non-traditional families and neighbors who've seen it all and gangbangers and business owners in a black community filled with people whose choices are never easy, and the one where she goes to a mostly-white private school at which she becomes a completely different version of herself so nobody knows about her home world. But it's so much more than that. And that's why I am going to ask people who can't relate to this story to read it as soon as they possibly can.The reason I believe reading books by people who aren't your and your experience's doppelgänger is important is because it allows us to pluck at the threads of truth about other peoples' lives, experiences, secrets at our own pace and in our own heads as we go along (note: I am white). We get to know them, see them, emotionally connect with them. Read enough of these stories, and we become able to see the real people in our world who are represented by those characters. We become more empathetic to and more understanding of their situations, even when they are so vastly different from our own that our knee-jerk reactions to their real-life words/actions/decisions tend to be denial, rejection. A disbelief because it doesn't seem right or doesn't feel comfortable.
Reading these stories connects us in a way our world needs right now. I can't say I can relate but I have been bullied and made to feel that being different is a bad thing and this book makes me want people to be more accepting and be more accepted.
I was pleasantly surprised by this book. Considering I am not usually a YA fan, I didn't really expect much from this book. But I have to admit I really enjoyed reading this. The book was very easy to get into and was a fast paced read. I really like in the book the discussion of race and identity in America shown through the lens of Starr, a teenage African American girl. There were a few times this book made me cringe but it was mainly the scene of the girls at prom as I felt it was rather juvenile but that's just because I don't have a taste for the YA writing style. I found the plot as a whole very relevant, contemporary and believable. I think it's fantastic that this book can help a future generation of young African American children and other minorities in America feel they have something to relate to and a way to understand the world they live in better through this book. I think Angie Thomas is a great advocate and it was a solid YA novel. This is a book most readers will enjoy and connect with regardless of race, sexuality or gender and it is a book I would happily recommend to all readers. A 4 and a half star read.
Bom, foi difícil começa-lo a ler porque, bem, não estava a conectar-me com as personagens nem com a história (como disse no início). No entanto, a medida que fui lendo, apercebi-me que estava a gostar cada vez mais das personagens.
Primeiro, é um tema pouco falado nos livros: a diferença das raças e a injustiça que existe. Segundo, cria uma ligação com a personagem que sofre com essa perda o que nos faz pensar mais sobre este assunto. E terceiro, ninguém tem direito de tirar uma vida só porque é preto/branco, traficante/certinho, novo/velho, por mais que pareça certo.
Eu acho que além de ser um livro sobre uma morte injusta por causa das raças, também é sobre como reagimos sobre uma morte em geral. Por exemplo, todos nós já vimos notícias de uma pessoa morta e o nosso pensamento é do género “oh! olha, mais um!” e passamos para a próxima, como no livro, muitos deles criam os hashtags sobre a morte do Kalil, mas poucos os que realmente sentem a pena.
Depois entra a parte do racismo “invisível”, o que eu quero dizer com isso, é que nós somos racistas mesmo quando parece que não somos, como o caso do polícia que o matou. Ele até pode ter tido amigos de outras raças, mas o facto de estar naquele bairro e saber por exemplo que o Kalil podia ter drogas e tê-lo morto sem razão nenhuma assumindo que é “preto que vende droga”, faz dele um racista mas que ele próprio pode achar que não foi acto de racismo mas sim de defesa. E como foi o caso da amiga dela, que mandava piadas esquecendo que isso podia magoar a Starr.
Gostei muito da atitude do namorado dela - Chris, a maneira como ele não queria saber das diferenças deles além de raciais mas também de estatutos. Ele um rapaz típico branco cheio de dinheiro e ela típica rapariga negra do guetto, no entanto a relação deles era completamente natural e sem qualquer preconceito!
No geral, achei o livro interessante, o tema e os problemas que ela infretava pareciam reais e eu acreditei na história dela. E acho que quando um livro consegue fazer isso, quer dizer que fez bem o seu trabalho!