Scott reviewed The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
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4 stars
Great characters
488 pages
Indonesian language
Published Nov. 9, 2018 by Gramedia.
5 stars
(6 reviews)
“Itu sebabnya orang-orang bicara, kan? Karena keadaan tidak akan berubah kalau kita tidak mengatakan apa-apa?”
Starr Carter, gadis kulit hitam berusia enam belas tahun, hidup di antara dua dunia berbeda. Lingkungan kumuh tempatnya lahir lalu tumbuh besar, dan SMA bergengsi di pinggiran kota tempatnya bersekolah. Keseimbangan dua dunia yang mati-matian ia jaga itu hancur berantakan ketika Starr menjadi satu-satunya saksi dari tragedi penembakan sahabatnya, Khalil, oleh seorang polisi. Padahal saat itu Khalil tidak bersenjata.
Segera saja, tewasnya Khalil jadi tajuk berita utama. Mereka menyebut pemuda itu preman, pengedar narkoba, bahkan anggota geng. Demo besar-besaran memenuhi jalanan atas nama Khalil. Semua orang ingin tahu, apa yang sebetulnya terjadi saat Khalil terbunuh.
Satu-satunya yang bisa menjawab adalah Starr. Yang akan ia katakan, bukan hanya bisa menghancurkan lingkungannya. Kemungkinan besar, itu bisa membuatnya terbunuh Source: www.gpu.id/catalogs/bookdetail/91254
Kadomi reviewed The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Review of 'The Hate U Give' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Absolutely outstanding book.
16-year old Starr Carter is a black teenager who goes to a white school. One night she is witness to a cop killing her friend Khalil for no reason, and this event changes her whole life.
Absolutely engaging cast of characters, told in a gripping way, wish every teenager read this book. Or anyone really.
I don't have the words to praise this book enough.
Kadomi@buecher.pnpde.social reviewed The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Review of 'The Hate U Give' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Absolutely outstanding book.
16-year old Starr Carter is a black teenager who goes to a white school. One night she is witness to a cop killing her friend Khalil for no reason, and this event changes her whole life.
Absolutely engaging cast of characters, told in a gripping way, wish every teenager read this book. Or anyone really.
I don't have the words to praise this book enough.
Heather reviewed The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Review of 'The Hate U Give' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
This was one of the most anticipated books of the year. I preordered it and started reading as soon as it downloaded. It is worth all the hype.I think a large part of the effectiveness of this novel is the complexity of the characters. No one is a stock character with only one relevant character attribute or motivation. This allows a lot of discussion among the characters on a huge range of topics.Starr - She is 16 and lives in a neighborhood that she thinks of as the ghetto but she doesn't want anyone else to call it that. She witness her best friend Natasha get killed in a drive by shooting when they were 10. After that her mother sent her to a private school in a safer neighborhood. She feels like she is living a double life at home and at school. She's not sure she fits …
This was one of the most anticipated books of the year. I preordered it and started reading as soon as it downloaded. It is worth all the hype.I think a large part of the effectiveness of this novel is the complexity of the characters. No one is a stock character with only one relevant character attribute or motivation. This allows a lot of discussion among the characters on a huge range of topics.Starr - She is 16 and lives in a neighborhood that she thinks of as the ghetto but she doesn't want anyone else to call it that. She witness her best friend Natasha get killed in a drive by shooting when they were 10. After that her mother sent her to a private school in a safer neighborhood. She feels like she is living a double life at home and at school. She's not sure she fits into either place. She has a white boyfriend that she's too afraid to tell her father about.Khalil - He grew up with Starr but they don't talk much any more. His mother is a drug addict. After he is killed, he is described as a drug dealer and a gang member but the truth is harder to come by.Maverick - He's Starr's father. He was a gang member but is out of it now. He was in jail for three years when Starr was young. He owns a grocery store in the neighborhood. He is adamant that they are not going to move to a safer neighborhood because they need to help remake the one they live in. He's drilled Black Panther quotes into his children to teach them to survive.Uncle Carlos - He is a policeman who grew up in the neighborhood. He helped raise Maverick's kids when he was in jail and there is still some tension between them.Add in Starr's mom and her brothers and the rest of the extended family in addition to the friends from the neighborhood and her school and this is a rich cast of characters with multiple points of view.Khalil is driving Starr home from a party when they are pulled over. He is pulled out of the car and then shot while standing beside the car. The police and the officer's family describe it as a shooting of a thug who was going for a gun. Starr knows there was no gun. Khalil looked into the car to ask if she was ok. Now she's dealing with the grief and trauma of witnessing his murder.At first no one knows that she was the witness. She wasn't named because she is a minor. She is unable to talk about it to her friends at school even though it is a major news story. There is even a walkout supposedly in protest of his killing but mostly was just as an excuse to get out of class. As she sees people around her react to the story of Khalil's death she is forced to face racism in her friends that she had been ignoring before.Should she break her silence and talk about what happened? She talks to the grand jury but should she go public? What will the repercussions be for her family and her neighborhood? Talking publicly will bring up issues like gang violence that no one talks about for fear of retaliation.This is a vibrant and layered story about life in a poor community in an inner city. It shows an intact African-American family with open love and affection between the parents. That's rare to find in books. I'll leave all the analysis of black representation to others but I thought it was amazing.I would love to hand this book to any white person who has ever thought All Lives Matter was an appropriate response to Black Lives Matter or who thought that a police killing was justified because the person was probably up to no good. I doubt they would read it but this book needs to be out in the world being read by everyone.The title comes from Tupac. This clip was referenced in the book. He explains what THUG LIFE means to him.
