Taking two perspectives from that of a rich life to those of the everyday hood one, both only trying to get a better life with different types of struggles. The Hate U Give is another take into the society that we, the youth, live in today. Life has a weird way of working, either you’re born into riches or you fight for it, sometimes even die trying. The book title itself derives from a famous quote Tupac always repped, THUG LIFE, known also as The Hate U Give Little Infants F***s Everybody, meaning that whatever society chooses to give the youth it comes back and bites them back, prompting a wild youth with troubled lives that ultimately sets up the book itself. Her family, Big Mav, a former gang member whose only trying to change his hood and a loving mother whose trying to get out for the sake of her family, have always fought about what is best for the family. This starts the beginning where both her worlds begin to fall apart, for years her parents have sent her to a wealthy, white populated private school but has come home to the hood, a place she’s always known and loved. If that wasn’t enough she then faces a jury to testify under Khalil’s behave. As the sole witness, Starr, is faced with the killing by cop of her best friend Khalil and pressured into giving a statement of what had occured that dreadful night.
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