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In chapter 26,The family drives to the store to survey the damage. Their store and others on the street have been completely destroyed, but Mr. Lewis tells them that he is retiring and giving them his barber-shop property so that Maverick can expand the store when he renovates. Starr, her family, and some members of the community set to work on the store with gloves and garbage bags.Starr looks up from working to see Kenya standing in front of her. Kenya explains that she and Lyric will move in with their grandmother, and that King beat Iesha; she had to go the hospital with a concussion, but she will recover soon. Kenya also apologizes for always referring to Seven as “her” brother rather than “our” brother, and Starr apologizes for never inviting Kenya to hang out with her Williamson friends because she was ashamed of where she lived. Kenya asks what will happen to the store, and Starr replies that they will rebuild it. She accepts that Khalil’s story had an unhappy ending, but feels hope that the black community will continue to fight for justice. She promises makes a promise to the memory of Khalil that she will never forget him, will never give up, and will never be silent.

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In chapter 25,The group tries to get out the back door, but it’s locked, and Goon still has Starr’s keys. Smoke fills the aisles and they struggle to breathe. Mr.Lewis sees them from outside and screams for help. Tim comes running and opens the front door, but the path to it is blocked by flames. Moments later Maverick shows up and rushes to unlock the back door. Everyone tumbles out of the store. Neighbors with buckets of water try to put out the flames, which have spread to Mr. Lewis’s store as well, but the fire is too big to control. King pulls up across the street in his gray BMW. He and other King Lords laugh and point at the fire. Maverick screams at King for starting the fire, but King keeps laughing and hides behind his King Lords. Mr.Lewis shouts that King burned down Maverick’s store—loud enough that the gathered crowd hears it. The police and a firetruck arrive. As the police order the crowd to back up, Mr. Lewis tells them that they need to be focused on King because he started the fire. King calls him a liar, but to Starr's immense surprise, Maverick speaks up to confirm Mr. Lewis’s story. Starr is shocked that her father has “snitched.” But soon many in the crowd join in to confirm that they, too, saw King start the fire.

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In chapter 24,Seven tries to avoid the protests, but many streets are blocked off by the police. When his car runs out of gas , the group gets out to walk to a gas station. As they walk, Starr points out to Chris her old apartment building and the Taco Bell she used visit with her family. Chris says maybe they can go to Taco Bell together someday, which makes DeVante laugh. Chris says he wants Starr to know he will go anywhere with her, no matter what neighborhood it’s in. DeVante clutches his side, and Seven asks if King kicked him with his boots. Seven notes that he did that to Iesha once, breaking her ribs. The group again hears police telling people to get off the streets, and realize that they have reached the street where Khalil was shot. People there are chanting “a hairbrush is not a gun.” This is Starr’s first time at the street since the shooting, and she sees the whole scene play out in front of her eyes again.

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In chapter 23,The car is silent as Seven drives to his grandmother’s house. Starr can’t understand what went wrong, or why Khalil didn’t matter enough for his death to be considered a crime. Kids around them start chanting “Justice for Khalil.” Seven slams the steering wheel in frustration and asks Starr if she wants to “burn shit up.” Starr says she wants to protest and riot. Chris says that won’t solve anything, but Starr snaps back that talking didn’t either; if the world doesn’t care about her, then she doesn’t care about the world. Following that Seven  drops Kenya and Lyric at their grandmother’s house as riots erupt in Garden Heights. Seven asks if Chris wants him to drive him home, as things are about to get “wild,” but Chris says he wants to stay with Starr and for everyone to know decision was wrong. The group asks DevVante why he walked off, and he tells them he wanted to visit his brother, Dalvin, in the cemetery. They arrive at Magnolia Avenue, where music blasts, horns blare, and people shout from the hoods of cars. Flames can be seen in the distance. They park at the Just Us for Justice office, which has been boarded up and had “black owned” spray painted over it so that rioters know not to target it.

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In chapter 22,The Carters have moved into their new house, and Starr notes that in her new, safer neighborhood she can just tell her parents she is going for a walk “and leave.” The house still doesn’t feel like home, however, and Starr misses seeing the familiar faces of Garden Heights. Later on in that chapter Chris and Starr talk about their relationship Starr feels more than ever that they should not be together; their backgrounds are simply too different. She says Chris should be with someone like Hailey. Chris tries to comfort Starr, but she feels he just doesn’t understand and drops it. The two begin to make out, Chris says he does not want to take advantage of her,and instead holds her and lets her cry. Seven calls, demanding to know where Starr is. He then says DeVante is missing. Starr’s stomach drops, and she and Chris agree to help find him. Seven pulls up to Chris’s house while on the phone with Kenya, who is clearly distraught. The three get into Seven’s car and speed to Iesha’s house.

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In chapter 21, Uncle Carlos hosts a barbeque for Memorial Day at his house that also serves as a joint birthday/graduation party for Seven, who has just turned eighteen and finished high school. Maverick cried when he saw his son get a diploma. The atmosphere is joyous, as the kids play in the pool and the adults dance to old-school hip hop music. Kenya flirts with Devante, who happily says that Carlos and Pam have agreed to let him live there for his senior year of high school. He has even bonded with Nana over their shared love of the card game spades.When Maya and Chris arrive, Starr feels her Garden Heights and Williamson worlds colliding, and worries about acting too “black” or too “white” for either group. Things are slightly tense at first as the two groups greet each other. Chris and Devante slap palms. Kenya introduces herself to Chris and then compliments Maya on her sneakers; Maya jokes about never running in them, and she and Kenya laugh. When Kenya asks where “blondie”—a.k.a. Maya excitedly launches into the story of Starr’s fight. Kenya eats the story up, and agrees when Maya says, “minorities have to stick together.” Much to Starr’s relief, everyone is getting along.

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In Chapter 20,It has been two weeks since Starr talked to the grand jury and eight weeks since Khalil’s death. Seven drives Starr to school, and appears on guard even at Williamson, he has grown more protective of Starr following her telling on king, whom Carlos has said the police are watching closely. Starr sees Maya and Hailey talking outside Hailey’s locker. Hailey calls Starr a “liar” when she approaches. Hailey then hands Starr two photographs of Khalil. The first, said to be the image the news has shared, is what Maverick calls Khalil’s “thugshot,” in which he holds a bunch of money to the camera. The second is from Starr’s birthday party, and shows her, Khalil, and Hailey eating cake. Hailey calls Starr a liar for pretending not to know Khalil, and demands an apology for being called racist. Maya defends Starr by pointing out that Hailey has, in fact, been saying racist things. Hailey dismisses her concern, saying that was so long ago that she shouldn’t be upset. She then says that Khalil probably would have been killed soon enough anyway, and that the cops did the world a favor by ridding them of a drug dealer and gangbanger. Starr punches Hailey in the face, and a fight ensues. Other students laugh and pull out their phones to record it. When Hailey’s brother Remy gets involved, Seven jumps in. Starr notes that they both know how to fight, Maverick having often taken them to the boxing gym after school. Security the breaks the fight up and they get suspended.

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In chapter 18,Maverick and Lisa take Starr and her brothers on a “trip.” At first they think they are going to Carlos’s house, but they pass his neighborhood. They eventually stop in a similar neighborhood, though there is no gate and there are more people of color. They stop in front of a brick house. Inside smells of fresh paint. The kitchen has granite countertops and stainless-steel appliances. As Starr, Seven, and Sekani look around with wonder and confusion, Lisa announces that she got the job at the hospital and that this will be their new home. Though Maverick has complained about the fakeness of life in the suburbs, he says the realest thing he can do is protect his family.

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In chapter 16,Five weeks have passed since the shooting, and April Ofrah has arranged for Starr to do an interview with national news anchor Diane Carey. A limo picks the Carters up from Garden Heights, and as they drive away Starr is heartened to hear her neighbors shout words of encouragement. Lisa has made everyone dress up as if they are going to church, and instructs them on how to speak at the studio. Chris texts Starr asking what color her prom dress is, but Starr has been too distracted to think about that; Ms. Ofrah has had her prep for her interview every day after school. Starr has also been helping at Just Us for Justice, and listening in on their staff meetings to learn more about police reform and protest tactics. In chapter 17,The interview proves one of the most watched in the network’s history, and there is an outpouring of support for Starr on line. Kenya texts her approval, but also says King is angry that Starr effectively snitched on him. The Saturday of prom arrives, and Starr is sitting in a Rolls Royce with Chris. He behaves coldly towards Starr, answering her questions “robotically” and barely looking at her. Loud music greets them as they arrive at the ballroom, and Starr notes how different Williamson and Garden Heights parties are. For one thing, the people at Williamson can’t dance like those at Big D’s. Starr feels less hesitant here, however, because being black makes her “cool by default.” She could make up a dance and everyone would think it was a new trend.

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In chapter 16,The following morning Lisa takes Starr to IHOP, but Starr barely touches her food. Lisa expresses her anger about the previous night’s interview, saying a grown man could not possibly been afraid of “two children.” People on the internet seem to agree, Starr has noticed, and people she has never met are calling the interview “BS.”

Much of the world appears to reject the media’s treatment of Starr and Khalil, granting hope that justice may be possible after all. Starr starts to open up about the tension with Hailey, though she leaves out the specific details. Lisa says she never liked the way Starr always let Hailey have her way when they were children. Lisa encourages Starr to make a list of the good and bad parts of her relationship with Hailey. Bringing up Nana’s alcoholism, she says she learned early on that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if your love for them outweighs that. Lisa stayed with Maverick after he cheated on her with Iesha because she decided that the good in their relationship outweighed the bad. She advises Starr to think the same way about Hailey, and decide whether the relationship is worth saving. If not, Starr should let Hailey go.

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In chapter 14, Needing to clear her head, Starr leaves and walks to Maya’s house nearby. Maya is excited to see Starr, but Hailey, who is also there, remains cold. After a brief time playing video games, Hailey cuts the tension in the room and asks Starr why she is mad at them. Starr asks why Hailey attended the fake protest for Khalil, and Hailey defends herself by saying everyone else did it too. Hailey insensitively equates the pain of being called a racist with actually experiencing racism not an entirely uncommon sentiment in modern real world discussions of these issues. At the end of the chapter Carlos admits that the interview with One fifteen father made him rethink his earlier dismissal of Khalil as nothing more than a drug dealer. He is angry with himself for trying to rationalize the death of a boy he watched grow up. Whatever Khalil’s background, Carlos says, he should not have been killed for “opening a car door.” He also asserts that had he been at that traffic stop, he would not have shot Khalil.

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In chapter 13, Back at the store, the Carters find a badly beaten Mr.Lewis, his eye swollen shut. He says five King Lords attacked him, and is proud of putting up a fight. Lisa and Maverick note that he is lucky to be alive, with King Lords, snitches do not simply “get stitches”—they get “graves.” Mr. Lewis scoffs at their concerns. He says they were really after Devante that King  will kill him when he finds him, and that King also knows Maverick is hiding him. Also in this chapter Maverick gets mad at DeVante. Starr hears a familiar laugh at the front door, and sees Chris walk into Carlos’s house; he saw the Carters’ car in the driveway and wanted to see if everything was okay. As the others greet Chris warmly, Maverick realizes he is not a new presence in Starr’s life. Maverick grows furious to learn not only that his daughter has a white boyfriend, but that he was the last one to know about it. He is especially angry that Carlos knew before him. Chris leaves and Devante teases her for dating a white boy.

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In chapter 12,Tanks rumble through Garden Heights. A curfew has been implemented, and Starr's dad is home with the family. Everyone feels safer with him around, and the mood is lighter in the Carter home. Maverick tends to his plants, which he fears are dying. He and Lisa have made up, and Maverick watches his wife as she works on the computer. Starr thinks she’s on Facebook updating her relatives, but wonders how she could post positive news without mentioning everything that has been happening. Maverick asks Starr to get her old laptop to give to DeVante for school. Later on in that chapter Starr hears Lisa speaking in her “other” voice on the phone. She is speaking to the District Attorney about Starr coming in to talk. Mav does not like the idea, but Starr thinks it will help Khalil, and agrees to do it.

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In Chapter 11,The next day at Williamson things are quiet. Starr asks what is going on, and Hailey reveals that her brother, Remy, is starting a protest for Khalil simply to get out of class. Making things worse, Hailey says it is messed up that they’re protesting a drug dealer’s death. Starr tells her that should have nothing to do with it and tells Hailey to leave her alone. Five minutes into class students start chanting and students walk out of the classroom. Only Starr and Chris stay behind. Later in the lunchroom, Starr is happy to see that Jess, a friend from the basketball team who is white, refused to join the protest as well.  She, Starr, Chris, Seven, and Layla joke that they are protesting the “Get Out of Class Protest.”

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In Chapter 1 Kenya, Starr's best friend wants her to go to a party. Starr ends up going but this is where it all starts to go downhill. when they get to the party, Kenya keeps talking about fighting this girl named Denisha. Starr is standing by herself until Khalil walks over. They knew each other since they were young kids. They catch up with each other and talk for awhile until they heard gun shots go off and they run out to Khalil car. He eventually pulls to the side of the road but when he pulls off a police car tries to pull him over. In chapter 2 the police pulls him over. Starr tries to explain to Khalil to put his hands on the dashboard. The police tells him to come out the car and he pats him down to see he has a weapon. Then he goes to check his license but when he comes back Khalil moves and reaches in the car for a brush but the police officer thinks its a gun and shoots him. This now causes a lot of pain and grief in Garden Heights.

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In chapter 3, While waiting for her parents to pick her up, Starr notes that the police rummage through his car and she doesn’t want them to touch his things. Starr's parents take her home and put her to bed. The next morning Starr starts to relive the moment of her best friends death Natasha. Seven discusses how King, a major neighborhood drug dealer, has moved in with his girlfriend, Seven’s mother Iesha. Maverick offers to let Seven live with the Carters, but Seven wants to be there to protect his mother and sisters from King’s beatings. Seven,Starr and Maverick discuss the death of Khalil.

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In chapter 4, Starr hears her parents arguing about uncle Carlos because he is on the same force as one-fifteen and defends his colleagues actions. Later on Starr agrees to talk to two detectives. Maverick reassures Starr that everything will be okay and stay strong. Next morning they go to visit Khalils's grandmother who helped babysit Starr when she was younger. When Starr goes inside the house memories come back of her and Khalil. Also in this chapter Maverick talks about being in prison and not being their for his kids. Uncle Carlos took over as a father figure to Starr which caused a feud between the two.

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In chapter 5, Lisa is dropping Starr to school she now has to go in Williamson Starr mode. Starr greets Hailey and talks about her people thought she would date Ryan because they are both black. Then they start talking about spring break and how they went to fancy islands and parks but this makes Starr feel left out because she did not go anywhere. She also notices this tension from Hailley and she also relices that she unfollwed her Tumblr. Starr runs into her boyfriend Chris who shes been ignoring but she can't stay mad at him. She is that so far no one has mentioned Khalil. At the end of school Starr sees Seven and Layla his girlfriend( she is black). Seven take Sekani and Starr to the clinic where their mom works. On the way , a police car pulls beside them at the stoplight Starr gets anxious for the light to change and Seven lets the cop by but he is still tense. In chapter 6, Starr and Lisa arrive at the police station for Starr's interview. Lisa demands to go in the room with Starr while she being interviewed. Starr changes her tone so she does not sound ghetto. Starr starts to feel nervous and the room is closing in. The detectives question Starr but focused more on what Khalil did causing Starr to say " he did not pull the trigger on himself.

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In chapter 7, Khalil's name appears on a news as a suspected Drug dealer. It does not mention the fact that he was unarmed and the police just say they spoke to a unnamed witness. Starr is a school now and they have fried chicken for lunch Starr's favorite. After lunch in gym class they have a a boys vs girls basketball Starr gets distracted with Chris and Hailey yells out "pretend the balls a piece of chicken". They lose the game and Starr confronts Hailey about staying that to the only black girl in the room and Hailey does not even consider that she had even said something racist. But she insists it was just a joke in reference to lunch earlier that day. Hailey and Maya ask if the Khalil they heard about on the news was the same Khalil who attended Starr’s birthday parties as a child, and if that is why she is behaving weirdly. Hailey dismissively refers to Khalil as “the drug dealer,” and Starr realizes that is all the world will ever see Khalil as. Worried what they will think of her, Starr denies knowing Khalil. She feels as though this is the ultimate betrayal.

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In chapter 8 ,It is the day of Khalil’s funeral. The parking lot is packed when the Carters arrive, and Starr sees multiple people dressed in “RIP Khalil” t-shirts. The Carters wear suits and dresses. Starr feels uncomfortable in Christ Temple, which the family stopped attending years ago in favor of a more “diverse” church, where the service is led by a “white guy with a guitar.” Pastor Eldridge greets the family and looks at Starr with pity. Starr feels her legs trembling and a wave of nausea as her family gets in line to approach Khalil’s open casket. She counts down the remaining people in front of her with increasing dread, until finally the moment arrives. The Khalil inside looks like a mannequin of himself, lacking the spark and dimples she knew and loved. Starr flashes back to seeing Natasha  in her casket years before, remembering her horrified screams for her friend to wake up.

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In chapter 9, That evening, protests erupt in Khalil's name throughout Garden Heights. Maverick spends the night at his store to protect it from rioters and instructs his family to stay indoors. Starr compares her neighborhood to a war zone. Upon hearing the sound of machine gunfire Lisa instructs the children to move to the den, where there are no windows. The family turns on the television to watch coverage of the protests, which have grown violent; police are tear-gassing protesters, cars have been set on fire, and people are running and screaming through the streets. The police appear on screen and say they have no reason to arrest One Fifteen. To Starr’s anger, the news makes it sound as though “it’s Khalil's fault he died,” alleging there was a gun in the car and calling Khalil a drug dealer and gang banger. Starr is not sure what to believe, but knows that regardless, Khalil did not deserve to die.

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In chapter 10, Starr’s continued trauma is evidenced by her fear of police even in a mundane situation, She now knows from experience that a black person does not have to be doing anything wrong to be targeted by the cops. Starr and her mom spend the night with Uncle Carlos to avoid the riots. Starr and her dad hang out with him that day, promising her ice cream and the chance to  watch Harry Potter. Starr relays her father’s theory that the Hogwarts houses are really just gangs; they wear the same colors, never snitch on each other, and some even have matching tattoos. They also discuss the meaning of THUG life by stating what Tupac thinks The hate u give little infants F**** everybody.