The Hate U Give Literary Analysis

Many students do not understand what happens in the real world, without fictional book students may never know what goes on outside of their own world. Every person goes through something different, and fictional literature is one way to express that. Therefore, the school board should not remove fictional text from the student’s curriculum. Some fictional texts have certain situations such as; self confidence, oppression, and racism. For example, the novel, The Hate U Give deals with this certain situations as the main character struggles to find her voice and has to face oppression and racism. In the novel, The Hate U Give the main character Starr Carter witnessed her best friend Khalil get murdered. The night Khalil died the police officer

The answer is simply because they have fear. Society has a fear of being punished for using their words and or have the fear that they will not be accepted because their opinions are different or “wrong”. For example, in the article “High School Students Kicked Off Football Team After Protesting National Anthem” by Fortin Jacey, is an example of students suffering the consequences for protesting. Cedric Ingram-Lewis, a sixteen year old student raised his hand while the national anthem was playing, and Larry McCullough an eighteen year old student took a knee during the national anthem as well. The boy's football coach removed them from the team. The students did not mean any disrespect to the country, they just strongly believe that racial inequality was wrong and they do not stand for it, and they want racial inequality to be stopped. The author of this article, Fortin Jacey, purpose of writing this is to show how the boys fully understood the consequences, and had such a strong belief and came out about the topic. What is another reason why society does not speak out? The answer to that question is society is scared they will not have piracy and or will not be protected. In the article “Points of view” by Dick Kaser, excalimes how people are scared to come out because they do not want to be blackmailed. This also corresponds with the novel The Hate U Give, because Starr does not want to be a snitch and have King (the largest

Fictional books help students understand a lot more about the real world. It teachers students how the real world works without it being a true story. The novel expresses the need to speak out and how finding your voice has many challenges, but once you find your voice things get better. Many students have found their voices and have protest at school because they strongly believe in something, they are also not afraid of consequences, and they are willing to take risks in order to get their points across. In the real world there are many other challenges such as oppression and racism, but finding your voice can put a stop to theses other challenges. The school board can try and take away fictional books, but the real question is why? Fictional books teaches students many different things. Fictional books are way more interesting than reading a long article. The novel The Hate U Give is a fictional novel that has taught me a lot. The book is interesting because it is in the point of a sixteen year old girl, who is around the same age as me, and the writing is also written in a teens perspective which makes it even more interesting. Fictional books should not be removed because students will not want to real boring text, they want a story that they can relate