The Hate U Give Book Review- Room To Breathe Gwyneth
This is a book review on the book The Hate U Give. A girl named Starr becomes known as the black girl at her school. She doesn’t want to be known as the ‘ghetto girl’ when her best friend Khalil gets shot by a cop. Starr now has to find justice for Khalil.
The Hate U Give is a book based around racism, rights, and the equality of different races. This novel has different points of view from different people of different color. These aspects of the book are important because it shows the perspective of the treatment that different races get in real life.
I think that this book very well connects to the real world. This is because some police harm black innocent people in the streets for absolutely no other reason except for their race. The police officers such as One-Fifteen assume that the black people who live in a not so good neighbourhood are drug dealers, which is not true at all. When One-Fifteen pulled over Khalil and Starr, all of these things were in common. Both black and living in not so good neighbourhoods. One-Fifteen assumed that Khalil was a drug dealer and pulled him over. When Khalil was asking Starr if she was okay, the officer thought that he was grabbing a ‘gun’ which was actually a black hairbrush.
“I don’t want to be known as ghetto Starr or angry black girl at Garden Heights School.” This shows that everyone needs to have a voice.
“Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The key is to never stop doing right.”
“What’s the point of having a voice if you’re gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn’t be.”
“I can’t change where I come from or what I’ve been through, so why should I be ashamed of what makes me, me?”
“Once upon a time there was a hazel-eyed boy with dimples. I called him Khalil. The world called him a thug.”
“You can destroy wood and brick, but you can’t destroy a movement.”
“People like us in situations like this become hashtags, but they rarely get justice. I think we all wait for that one time though, that one time when it ends right.”
“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”
These quotes are all life lessons for speaking up, forgiving, equality movements, and more. This novel is very eye-opening and shows us another world that most of us aren’t experiencing. The Hate U Give shows us how fortunate we really are to go to school, live in a good city, and not hear gunshots outside of our homes every time we wake up. This truly was a moving book to read, and very interesting too.
I would rate this book 4.5/5 stars.
This book has shown the experiences that some others around the world suffer. This book was very descriptive and real-world connecting.