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A few days after the funerals, me and X stood shivering at the blue bus shelter nearest to PAHS, on Congress Street, where someone had scrawled “PUNK KILLS” on the window. “This sucks,” I said. “What should we do?”
“Punk show,” X said. (Kinsella, 74)

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Recipe for Hate is told in a first-person perspective by X’s best friend, Kurt. Throughout the story, first-person personal pronouns like “I, me, and my” are used which further proves this. In the first page of Chapter 1, we see the first use of personal pronouns in the sentence; “Many of us preferred to come and go through the door to the alleyway, because we were nervous about the regulars.” (Kinsella, 11)

Sentences like these are incredibly prevalent in the novel, which contributes to the story and makes it feel like it is being by the character himself. It is almost entirely Kurt recounting the story, with the exception of the brief switch to third-person during the trial.

A few more examples of the first-person POV in the book;
• My own name, by the way, is Kurt Lank. My friends call me Kurt Blank or Point Blank. This is our story, as I remember it, about what happened to all of us in Portland that winter. (Kinsella, 25)
• I didn't agree with him, but whatever. Trying to change X's mind was impossible, pretty much. (Kinsella, 70)
• The “bland, satanic monoculture” of the place, as I put it in one tune, provided us with tons of material. (Kinsella, 82)

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“Hello?” he called out.
“Back here,” said the familiar voice. “Near the stage.”
X walked along the bar slowly and rounded the corner. There, slouched at a table with two chairs, under a single light, sat the man they called Northman.
He waved X toward the empty seat.
“Hello, Chris.”
X slid into the chair and looked at the man, his uneven eyes black. “Detective Murphy,” he said. “I didn’t see the desk guy on my way in.” (Kinsella, 285)

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At noon on the Friday following the judge’s decision, about three hundred people assembled outside the main doors of the district courthouse on Federal Street, and plenty of others gathered in Lincoln Park, directly across the street. In the crowd were X’s parents, as well as various siblings and relatives of Jimmy Cleary, Mark Upton, and Danny O’Heran. It was a sunny kind of day, not too cold, and none of us had bothered to obtain a permit, on purpose. The Portland police, as a result, were out in full force. A half-dozen of them had donned riot gear.
They look f**king ridiculous. Morons. (Kinsella, 223)

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“The Celtic cross was interesting,” X said. “It’s an interesting symbol.”
“Yes, Odin’s Cross,” the man said, grinning like it was some big conspiracy. “It’s rather important. I take it you know what it means?”
X nodded.
“And you are of Western European heritage, then?” the man asked.
“I guess,” X said. “We’re from Portland.”
“In Maine? Of course. I know many, many people staying there,” the man said, closing the door to his office, but staying where he had been standing. “Many interesting things are going on in Portland, these days.”
What a f**king creep. (Kinsella, 173)

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“If we meet, I want to bring my friend Kurt. No witness, no meeting.”
“Absolutely. No problem,” said McLeod. “I actually wanted to speak to him, too.”
Me? (Kinsella, 99)

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• The main conflict throughout the story is Person vs. Person because of the murders

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• Two of X and Kurt’s friends are kidnapped

• Northman and one of the Nazis took the hostages to a trailer

• X and a few others went to look for their friends, and Kurt followed along secretly

• The hostages were abused by Northman and his accomplice

• X’s group eventually found where they were being held captive, and Kurt was hiding in the woods

• The Nazi tried to run away, but Kurt shot him to protect X

• The hostages were freed

• A Nazi group was planning to kill Northman due to his recklessness

• X and Kurt took their friends to the hospital

• A new detective, Detective Chow, talked to X and Kurt to gather information about what had happened

• X is lured to Gary’s Bar by Northman, however X secretly had protective gear and backup

• Northman is revealed to be Detective Murphy, and it is also revealed that he didn’t want to kill Jimmy and Marky, he wanted to kill X

• The Nazi group arrived to try and kill Detective Murphy but they fail

• Detective Murphy tries to kill X but dies trying

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• The trial has begun, and is viewed by Sharon Martin, narrated in the third person

• X’s attackers are causing disorder in the court and plead guilty to the murders of Jimmy Cleary and Marky Upton

• The judge of the trial does not accept their guilty plea

• Detective Murphy interrogated the perpetrators alone, which he got in trouble for later

• The narration returns to Kurt, which has him and X trying to convince the court that the killer is still at large

• There is another murder, in which the main villain “Northman” is introduced

• X’s attackers were bailed out

• X and Kurt organized a protest against the police

• Kurt joined the Hot Nasties (band) as the lead singer

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• X was attacked by 3 Nazis, and some of The X Gang + X's father went to their bail hearing to testify

• The Nazis were silent the whole time

• Ron McLeod told X and Kurt more information he had gathered about the killer/s, however, Detectives Murphy and Savoie stopped the conversation

• X and Patti started dating

• X was told the police were on the attackers' side

• Ron McLeod shared new information about the Nazis and their whereabouts

• X and Kurt bought books to get to know their enemy better

• X and Kurt went to a Nazi meeting where they learned they planned to kill people of colour

• X was told his attackers were being charged with murder

• Perspective changes to a lawyer in the courtroom of X’s attackers’ trial; Sharon Martin

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• Starts off explaining how X and Kurt met Jimmy at PAHS

• In the present, they plan a punk show to try and find Jimmy and Marky's killer/s and also to prove punk isn't dead

• X and Kurt decided to have the show at the Coyle St. house because they couldn't do it at a bar

• Before the Coyle St. gig, X was approached by a reporter named Ron McLeod who wanted to talk off-record

• Kurt and X talked to Ron McLeod about how the murders may have been related to religion

• X is attacked at the Coyle St. gig and his attacker was caught

• X helped the police identify his attacker, meanwhile his and Kurt's friend Danny was almost killed after someone tried to drown him

• The X Gang decided to try and find the killer/s on their own since the police were incompetent

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• Gary's Bar

• The Coyle Street house

• The police station

• Courthouse, Courtroom 200

• The Sound Swap basement

• Dunkin' Donuts

• Harvard Square Theatre

• The Casco Bay Pier

• PAHS (Portland Alternative High School)

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• Both found dead, and died within about a day of each other

• Both of their murders had some sort of biblical relevancy

• Both were involved in the punk scene and their deaths caused even more stigma around it

• Jimmy was the lead singer of two bands

• Marky wasn't really a punk but joined the scene because he felt more accepted

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• Patti's age goes unmentioned in the book, although it is safe to assume she too is around 17 years of age and is a young adult female

• Patti is the lead singer and guitarist of her and her sister's band

• Patti's real first name is unknown although her last name is Kowalchuk

• Patti is a main source of info for the reader and tells Kurt everything

• Patti is said to have a crush on X and even becomes his girlfriend

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• Betty is a young adult female around 17 years of age

• Betty is in a feminist punk band with her sister Patti, and both of them are a part of the X Gang

• Betty is the bassist in her and her sister's band

• Betty's real name is Beth Kowalchuk

• Betty is incredibly kind and is known to take in lost animals and people to give them a place to stay, earning her the nickname "Sister Betty"

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• X is also a young adult male around 17 years of age

• X is heavily involved in the Punk scene, although he is described as "not like other punks"

• X is the "leader" of "The X Gang" and tends to hang out with them at Gary's Bar and the Coyle St. house

• X is Kurt's best friend, and the story is mostly focused on him

• X is very silent and mysterious

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• Primarily takes place in 1978

• Flashbacks throughout to explain characters' backstories (mostly X and Kurt)

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• Jimmy Cleary is found murdered behind Gary's Bar

• Two detectives, Murphy and Savoie, are introduced to the story and speak with X and Kurt

• The detectives believe Jimmy was killed out of hatred for the punk scene

•  Marky Upton confesses to seeing something the night of Jimmy's murder and is found dead shortly after

•  Marky and Jimmy have a double funeral, and Marky's mother accuses X of killing her son

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• Kurt is a young adult male around 17 years of age

• Kurt is heavily involved in the Punk scene alongside his friends

• Kurt is gay

• Kurt normally hangs out with his friends at Gary's Bar and the Coyle St. house

• Kurt narrates the story in First Person throughout