The Hate U Give By Angie Thomas

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One of the books I both learned from and enjoyed was The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. I enjoyed this book because of Thomas’s fearlessness in addressing common occurrences of racism in the United States today, including police brutality against minorities. In fact, Thomas wrote this novel because of cases such as Michael Brown. Despite the focus on police brutality, this book was not anti-police, which Thomas portrays through the fact that Starr Carter, the protagonist, has an uncle--whom she is closer to than her own father--that is a police officer, which is an important part of the characters’ lives. Moreover, The Hate U Give also covers minute instances of racism in daily life, including instances where one does not realize that he

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