I would have saved my agitation for when I was home. I do not believe I would have asked as many questions as Khalil did because I would have simply wanted the experience over with as soon as possible.
#THE HATE YOU GIVE SCENES DRIVER#
I would have leaned into the driver window to check on my friend.īut I really don’t know because I have never been in that situation before. I would have had the same reaction to being ordered out of my car. I want to say that if I was Khalil I would have had the same reaction to being pulled over late at night.
your hand?” or something before firing three shots as Khalil stepped back from the car with his hairbrush. I want to say that if I was the cop I would have said “hands up” or “freeze” or what’s in. I want to say that if I was the cop, the minute I saw the hairbrush I would holster my gun and try to stop the bleeding and help. He never puts his gun away, he never bends down to try to stop the bleeding or help, and he even handcuffs Starr.
He is panicking and his panic gets only worse when he sees the hairbrush he thought was a gun. But all the cop can say is “where is it?”. Khalil is bleeding, dying, and Starr is screaming for the cop to help him.
#THE HATE YOU GIVE SCENES MOVIE#
I do feel the movie added something to the scene that improved it. I would not have acted any differently if I had witnessed a friend get shot, but then again, I have never witnessed anyone get shot and I have never been pulled over and had a gun drawn on me. And then the cop proceeded to point the gun at Starr and shout at her when she screams and rushes to his body. If a white person had asked those questions, how would the scene have played out? Khalil was checking on his friend to see if she was ok and then the cop shot him three times. He did reach into the car, and in the dark, from a distance, the cop only has so much time to react or fear that if it is a gun and he does not react quick enough, he could be killed.īut then my thought transforms and all I can think is, he asked the same questions and had the same agitated tone that any one of us would have in the same situation. He needed to stop talking, stop moving, and he was not listening to the warnings Starr’s dad had taught her. Khalil just needed to do what the cop asked. At first, I kept thinking that Starr was right. It will take you less than five minutes to read it, but you’ll spend a hell of a lot more than that thinking about that chapter. It is five pages, not unlike the max five seconds it took for the cop to shoot him. (Side Note: I am not going to review the movie or write a compare/contrast, but some of the scenes I discuss are ones that the film added or took out, which I feel are important for understanding the power of this story).Ĭhapter 2 is when Kahlil dies. I am looking at these scenes as a white adult living in 2020 America, but I am also looking at these scenes as a high school English teacher who would love to add this story to her curriculum. It is impossible for me to avoid my white privilege and ignorance, but that is the point. This post is exactly what the title suggests–I will take certain scenes from the book and movie, and then I will analyze, argue, and try to understand them (so it is filled with spoilers).
This post is not a review of the book, for that see “Why Everyone Should Read, Not Just Watch, The Hate U Give”.
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