A book like this is popular because of all the sensitive topics it touches upon. Police discrimination, shootings of young black teens, and how racism runs society some times. A book like this is especially popular because of the fact it follows an african american teen girl who witnessed the incident and attempts to make her voice heard. It touches upon how media is manipulated also when the police officer’s father appears on TV and claims that his son was threatened and it was viable for people to believe simply because they were two black teens driving around late at night. People these days seem to love to hate something for something so when they claim that one person is bad, they all start hating that also. No matter if it’s a lie.

A book like this can’t really seem to have that much of an impact of modern day society due to that fact that things like these are talked about so frequently that most people ignore it now and days. Being able to see it from the perspective of Starr does bring some light to the table but most people don’t even seem to read books now no matter digital or physical. Although a film is being made about this I still don't really see how this can leave an impression on people or really impact society. I could pull up facebook on my phone and maybe find an article or two talking about police shootings and a young black teen being arrested because he was walking down the street. Maybe a younger teen would find this to be much more impactful but with how things are now and days . I don’t really see this book changing much aside from telling a good, interesting story about being the victim.