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From Merchant of Venice

Love: Starr's relationship with her white boyfriend, Chris, is certainly one of love, though they have many issues because of race and all that is going on in Starr's life.

Familial love present in this section of the novel. Starr's relationship with her younger brother Sekani and older half brother seven is extremely close, and on many occasions is the love her parents hold for her demonstrated in their concern for how she is doing and how to get her out of this scenario.

Societal Confines- Starr is black and of the lower class and doesn't experience the same luxuries as her rich friends do at school. Class is a reason of argument as well as causes many problems such as drug dealing.

Prejudice- the prejudice the police officers hold for black people is very obvious, with the questioning of whether Khalil's death was justified because of he was a drug dealer, when it was only assumed in the first place he was a thug because of his race. Struggles between Starr, Chris, and her friends as well.

Villain vs. Victim- the debating idea of whether Khalil or the officer was at fault for this incident and how the people around Khalil are part of it as well after his death.

Other Themes:

Friendship- Maya and Hailey's relationship with Starr (is it really friendship though) as well as Kenya, Natasha, and Khalil.

Hate- hate crimes, racial hate. Starr feels anger and hatred for whoever put her in this position.

To discuss: maya, hailey, and Starr's relationship, Mr. Lewis's actions, and racism.

-Carolyn Huey

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Love- Not only on romance, but the book also focuses on familial love. Starr's family is there to support her through the process of defending Khalil. Even though they fight like any other family, it is evident that they love each other. For example, when she has to give the tv interview defending Khalil, Starr's brothers and parents are right there for moral support.

Societal Confines - The residents of Garden Heights are under many societal confines due to where they live. They live where there is a lot of drug activity and gang-banging, and it is difficult for escape. The poverty that lies in Garden Heights traps its residents, and people like DeVante are forced to sell drugs and join gangs to survive.

Villain vs. Victim - The whole villain vs. victim thing is based on perspective. The black community sees Khalil as the victim and the police officer as the villain because Khalil was unarmed. However other people, such as Hailey and the officer's father see the officer as the victim because they think that the officer was just "defending himself".

Prejudice - Khalil's death caused national outrage but not all people are sympathetic of his death because of prejudices. For example,  Hailey doesn't sympathize with Starr when she learns that Starr knew Khalil. She says that Khalil was just a drug dealer, and that "the cops did everyone a favor". She is so prejudiced over the fact that Khalil is a drug dealer that she doesn't take time to consider why Khalil might have turned to a life drugs.

-Shriya Thangada

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Love - The characters in this section love eachother
and constantly look out for one another, including Maverick moving out of Garden Heights even when he doesn’t want to, and Chris going to protest with Starr after the decision about Khalil even though he is nervous
Societal Confines - Societal Confines lead Starr into believing races should be with similar races, which continuously causes tension with Chris in their relationship
Villain vs. Victim - Iesha is a great example of both. While she is associated with King, she also takes the hit for the kids getting into King’s house after DeVante gets beat up by King
Prejudice - Hailey uses extreme amounts of prejudice when she says that Khalil would have simply died anyway because he is a drug dealer which is not even true. She also is made  to think that he is a menace because of this, and this is likely due to her prejudice towards blacks.

- Ava Cofiell

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Main Points:

Starr’s family and friends gather to celebrate Seven’s graduation; Starr’s two worlds collide at the party

DeVante goes missing, and Starr, Seven and Chris go look for him

They find him beaten up at King and Iesha’s house. Iesha catches them but lets them leave.

Khalil’s verdict come out: the police officer is found not guilty

Enraged, Starr, Seven, and Chris attend a protest, where Starr speaks up about the injustice of Khalil’s verdict.

They all get caught in a fire, but manage to escape

The book ends with Starr agreeing to rebuild

The Key Focus at the end of the book is family and community. At Seven’s graduation, Starr’s family and friends from both aspects of her life come together peacefully. Later, at King’s house, Iesha allows her son Seven to escape, put herself up to the wrath of King. Finally, at the protest, the people of Garden Heights come together to protest the injustice of one of their own.

-Shriya Thangada

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Key characters For final (chapter 21-End)

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Key characters For final (chapter 21-End)

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Starr Carter- main. Character, protagonist in the story, faced with a difficult disition when she witnesses a murder
KKhalil- main characters best childhood friend who lives in her neighborhood
Kenya-another friend from stars neighborhood
Stars mother and father:
Father- former drug dealer that turned his life around and now he runs a grocery store
Mother- currently working as a nurse
King- the lead set of the neighborhood gang called king lords
DeVante- gang member of the king lords who wants to get out and not be a part of the gang anymore.
Chris- Starr's boyfriend
Uncle carlos- Starr's uncle also a police officer
Mr.Lewis- the neighborhood barber who hates the gangs and the violence.
All the main characters who play big roles in The end of the book for chapters 21-the end

-Ben Briskin

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Angie Thomas was born and raised in jackson Mississippi, inspired by black rights movement she wrote this book to address racism and police brutality, by creating a situation no teen should ever go through a plot with many tough disitions and emotional feelings, creating more conflict and more plot, she sets up the main character to go to school in a preppy rich white school, but live in a poor black neighborhood, this created a setting of both hope and success, and also the opposite setting of broken down poor dreary, which foreshadows the opposite of success, as going down the wrong path and poverty, being stuck in the same poor neighborhood, along with the conflict of Khalil's death she expresses that that part of her life plays a big role in her life, focusing on this conflict fades away any positive success hope she had and creates a kind of tunnelvision  on the negatives which makes the theme hate, which furthermore creates the theme of hate crimes, police V.S the people, and even relationships are they true friendships or fake.
-Ben Briskin

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Plot Developments (Chapter 21 to the end)

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Plot Developments (Chapter 21 to the end)

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Uncle Carlos’s barbecue and Seven’s 18th birthday party

Iesha shows up and has a fight with Seven

Starr’s family has completely moved into their new neighborhood

Starr goes to Chris’s house and shows how upset she is

DeVante is hurt by King, so Starr, Seven, Kenya, and Chris go to get him

Iesha lets them take him and risks herself being hurt

They drive to Seven’s grandma’s house and hear the not guilty verdict of Khalil’s case

Violent riots spring up in anger of the decision

Worried about Starr’s Dad’s store, they head there and meet Miss Ofrah on the way at a protest

Starr joins in on the protest and speaks out

Tear gas is thrown and they leave to go to the store- which is quickly set on fire

After they get out, they realize king set the store on fire and he’s arrested

Hailey apologizes and Starr decides to keep fighting

-Carolyn Huey

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Hailey’s apology

King’s arrest/ setting the store on fire

Iesha’s decision to protect them- is she a good person?

The violent riots

The book’s conclusion

-Carolyn Huey

Chris joining protests

Iesha and King’s Relationship

- Ava Cofiell

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starr carter- protangonist
khalil- starrs childhood friend (gets shot)
kenya- a friend of starrs that lives in her neighborhood
king- the leader of the gang
lesha- kings girlfriend, mother of seven, kenya, and lyric
devante- a gang member who wants to leave king’s gang
starr’s father- starrs dad (obviously) he used to be a drug dealer but now he runs a grocery store
starrs mom- she’s a nurse
hailey and chris- starr’s friends from school
steven- starr’s half brother

lauren nardi

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1. Mr. Lewis Beat up for sntiching
2. Starr’s Dad takes in DeVante and meets Chris
3. Starr, Hailey, and Maya get into a fight over Hailey’s racism
4. Officer 115’s dad is interviewed
5. Star is interviewed for national TV and talks about Khalil and Gang violence
6. Starr and Chris go to Prom and talk about Racial Divides between them
7. Starr’s Dad announces they are moving and her mom got a new, better job
8. Brick thrown in the family’s house
9. Star testifies in Grand Jury

All of these plot movements show how Starr is fighting for Khalil (the main plot) and emphasize the difficulties in doing so and how she is doing it.

- Ava Cofiell

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Starr and Hailey's fight (should Starr have physically fought her)

Her father's decision to move to the suburbs

Starr's decision to stay anonymous during her news interview

-Shriya Thangada

Hailey’s racist views

Selling drugs for money for their family

Police officer’s father’s interview

-Carolyn Huey

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Main events:

DeVante comes to work at Starr’s Dad’s grocery store to escape the king lords and goes to stay with Uncle Carlos

Her dad finds out about her boyfriend

Fights with Hailey at Maya’s house and Maya joins forces with Starr

Sees the interview of One-Fifteen’s father

Starr gets interviewed

Starr’s mom gets a new job and they begin moving process

Live tv interview for case

Prom, where Chris discovers Starr was the witness

Court case appearance

Fight with Hailey at school

From these main points, the key focus of this passage is racial prejudice and how that effects the daily life of everyone.

DeVante and Khalil sold drugs because they needed the money for their families, because they were stuck in a poverty cycle derived from a history of discrimination

Starr’s dad is upset at first on how her boyfriend is white

In the interview she had, most everything talked about was the officers assumption of danger based on race

She allies with Maya against Hailey because of Hailey’s racist nature and since they are both minorities

All of these events in Starr’s life were a result of racial issues and thus that is the focus.

- Carolyn Huey

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•she was born and raised in mississippi
•She is a former teen rapper whose greatest accomplishment was an article about her in Right-On Magazine
•She holds a BFA in Creative Writing from Belhaven University and an unofficial degree in Hip Hop.
•she was insipired by the black lives matter movement, so she wrote “The Hate U Give”
•she was inspired greatly by her own childhood, for she grew up poor and encountered many thugs and drug dealers
•When she was young, Thomas felt a lack of black authors keenly, so although she hopes the book has universal appeal, nothing about it is watered down
•one of her biggest influences was tupac, she felt he was true to himself in his raps and helped the black community

-Lauren Nardi

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How "THUG Life" (The Hate U Give Little Infants F---s Everyone) Affects Story

Starr forced to analyze this by her dad

THUG Life is saying...

+ Racism is instilled in the young, hurting other people when said child grows
+ According to Starr, this hate manifests itself in society, immediately putting the  oppressed and the hated at a disadvantage and hurting everyone in said community

This idea repeats throughout the story

+ ie. Police likely hate Starr despite her not doing anything, because hatred of those who hurt the police was probably being spread after Starr put officer 115 at risk of being arrested
+ ie. Hate being instilled in Sekani after he watches his dad get hurt by Police for no reason

- Ava Cofiell

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1. Starr's initial hesitation to talk about Khalil's death despite being a witness

2. Kids at Starr's school protesting Khalil's death just to get out of class

3. The similarities and differences between DeVante and Khalil

4. Mr Lewis's interview with the news channels where he talked about all the gang activity in Garden Heights (was he wrong or right to do that?)

5. Predictions about how the courts are going to rule the murder of Khalil

-Shriya Thangada

1. Predictions on what happened at end of chapter! (Dad asks if DeVante had called 911)

2. Do you think DeVante will be able to get out of "the game"

3.  Should Starr advocate for Khalil?

- Ava Cofiell

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Starr Carter- Protagonist
Khalil- Starr's childhood friend that gets shot
Kenya- friend of Starr's from her neighborhood
Starr's Father - a former drug dealer that now runs a grocery store
Starr's Mother- a nurse
Seven- Starr's and Kenya's half-brother
King- the leader of the gang "King Lords"
DeVante - a gang member of the "King Lords" who wants to get out
Hailey- Starr's friend from school
Maya- Starr's friend from school
Chris- Starr's boyfriend
Ms. Rosalie- Khalil's grandma
Uncle Carlos- Starr's uncle and a police officer
Mr. Lewis- a barber in Starr's neighborhood that disapproves of the gang activity
-Shriya Thangada