Abstract
Angie Thomas's "The Hate U Give" portrays diverse family dynamics and underscores the significance of familial bonds in shaping individual identities and responses to social issues. It does so use many literary devices and describing a lot of different meanings of the word "family".
Extract
[...] The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas (2017) - How is « family » represented in The Hate U Give? Angie Thomas's "The Hate U Give" portrays diverse family dynamics and underscores the significance of familial bonds in shaping individual identities and responses to social issues. It does so use many literary devices and describing a lot of different meanings of the word "family". There is of course first of all Starr's family, the Carters, they are at the center of the novel and provide a stable background for our main character to grow up and find herself. [...]
[...] If the Carters love each other very much, others have a darker history : this is true for King's family. It is the opposite of the Carters, King abuses his kids and his girlfriend. This is important because the author chose to make King's family the oxymoron of the Carters, she chose two black families, she could have chosen Starr's boyfriend's family and make them bad people, but she chose to oppose two black families to highlight the fact that not all black people are good people and not all white people are bad people. [...]
[...] Indeed, the author uses this device to make us understand things without explaining them plainly, the roses in the Carters' Garden are in fact, the Carters. Maverick's roses are a symbol, a metaphor of his own family. He talks to them, he sees conversations as a way for them to grow, he observes that they are dying right when the riots start, he talks about how they will survive moving to a richer neighborhood even though it will be hard. [...]
