She is speaking to the District Attorney about Starr coming in to talk. Maverick does not like the idea, but Starr thinks it will help Khalil, and agrees to do it. Lisa, like Starr, code switches depending on who she is talking to.
Mother to Starr and Sekani, wife to Maverick, and step-mother to Seven, Lisa is a deeply loving and supportive presence in her children’s lives. After becoming pregnant with Starr as a teenager, Lisa was thrown out of her house by Nana and lived with Mrs. Rosalie, Khalil ’s grandmother.
Starr hears Lisa speaking in her “other” voice on the phone. She is speaking to the District Attorney... (full context) ...He says five King Lords attacked him, and is proud of putting up a fight.
Lisa, like Starr, code switches depending on who she is talking to. Speaking to the DA is another way Starr can use her voice to help Khalil. Get the entire The Hate U Give LitChart as a printable PDF.
The DA explains the grand jury proceedings and asks Starr questions. When she gets to the moment of Khalil's death, Starr begins to vomit. Lisa brings Starr to the store and orders Maverick to take care of Starr despite their fight. Chastened, Maverick holds Starr and lets her cry.
DeVante reveals that King wanted him to kill the men who shot Dalvin, which would only lead to Garden Disciples coming after him. As such, DeVante stole $5,000 from King in order to get his mother and sister out of town. His mother refused to let DeVante come with them, fearing he would put them all in danger.
Summary: Chapter 10. On their way back to Garden Heights, Starr and Lisa stop at a police roadblock. Starr panics, imagining the police shooting them. Starr keeps her eyes closed while the police question Lisa, Maverick's advice for talking to cops echoing in her head.
Summary: Chapter 6 Starr panics as she and Lisa enter the police station. She keeps noticing the guns the police officers carry and remembering the night of Khalil's death. Lisa almost decides to bring Starr home, but Starr insists she wants to continue.
Starr asks how DeVante knew him, but remembers they were King Lords together. DeVante reveals Khalil hadn't been a King Lord. King tried to recruit Khalil, but Khalil refused, and King lied at the funeral to save face. Brenda had stolen from King, and Khalil sold drugs to pay off Brenda's debt.
Khalil began dealing drugs because of his family's poverty, which resulted from the lack of opportunities his family had and his mother's addiction to drugs. After One-Fifteen shoots Khalil, Khalil's drug dealing becomes justification for his death.
Lewis, Khalil is a drug dealer, a stereotype they can shorthand to justify his death as necessary or inevitable. When the King Lords bring the bandana, they stake a claim over Khalil that no one can contradict, and the gossip they create changes the perception of Khalil, overshadowing the funeral with rumors.
Summary: Chapter 11. Hailey's brother, Remy, plans to protest Khalil's death as an excuse to play hooky. Hailey's excited, although she isn't happy they're protesting a drug dealer's death. Hailey believes Khalil's dealing explains the shooting.
Analysis: Chapter 9. Starr's immediate judgement of DeVante parallels the media's immediate judgement of Khalil, which implies Starr is wrong about DeVante. When Starr learns that DeVante is a King Lord drug dealer, she connects him to violent and abusive King.
As soon as the detectives enter the interview room Starr remembers the teachings of “the talk” and quickly changes her voice and gestures, to ensure she does not sound “ghetto.” During the interview Starr is asked whether Khalil seemed irate, hesitant, about his actions during the party, and much more that lead Starr ...
Seven calls to ask if Starr has seen DeVante. DeVante left Uncle Carlos's house, and nobody knows where he went. Starr tells Seven to pick her and Chris up so they can help search. When Seven arrives, he's on the phone with Kenya.
Gunshots from a gang fight interrupt the party, and Khalil offers to take Starr home. While Khalil drives, he explains rapper Tupac Shakur's idea that “Thug Life” stands for “The Hate U Give Little Infants F---- Everybody.” Soon after, a white police officer with the badge number one-fifteen pulls them over.
(full context) Lisa drags Maverick out to the patio, but Starr can still hear everything they say as... (full context) Chapter 14.
Lisa reminds an extremely anxious Starr to breathe as they arrive at the police station for... (full context) ...no longer hold her tongue, and quips that Khalil “didn’t pull the trigger on himself.”. Lisa asks why it seems like they are putting Starr and Khalil on trial instead of... (full context) Chapter 8.
They are not expelled, because the headmaster takes pity on Starr “given the circumstances.”. Lisa scolds Seven and Starr, saying they behaved in the way the world expected them to. ... (full context) Chapter 21. ...and scolds Kenya for keeping her brother’s party a secret.
After becoming pregnant with Starr as a teenager, Lisa was thrown out of her house by Nana and lived with Mrs. Rosalie, Khalil ’s grandmother. She works as a nurse in a Garden Heights clinic and, along with Maverick, attempts to educate her children about racial injustice. She raises Seven like her own son, despite him being the product of Maverick ’s affair with Iesha, and advises Starr to determine whether the good outweighs the bad in her own strained relationship with Hailey. Lisa desperately wants to move away from Garden Heights, something over which she frequently clashes with Maverick. At the end of the novel, Lisa obtains a higher paying job at a hospital to support the family’s move out to a safer neighborhood.
Maverick and Lisa ask where they’ve all been all night. Maverick is impressed when he hears that Starr... (full context)
At the end of the novel, Lisa obtains a higher paying job at a hospital to support the family’s move out to a safer neighborhood.
The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Chapter 2. ...gave her when she was twelve about how to behave in front of police officers. Lisa, her mother, thought she was too young, but Maverick, her father, said she was old... (full context) Chapter 3.
Maverick, for example, is a former felon but also a father and activist. Khalil is a drug dealer, but also a desperate young man forced to take care of his own mother.
B. Du Bois’ famous notion of “double consciousness,” the sensation of “two-ness” experienced by black individuals seeing themselves through the eyes of a racist society. Du Bois put forth this term in 1903 to describe the experience of being black in an American culture that has devalued blackness ...
“Anyway, Chris,” Seven says, “DeVante's got a point. What makes his name or our names any less normal than yours? Who or what defines 'normal' to you? If my pops were here, he'd say you've fallen into the trap of the white standard.”
DeVante is a gang member, but also a video-game loving teen trying to support his family. While Starr is easily able to reconcile all these facets of their lives, society flattens black identity and in effect robs black individuals of their full humanity.
The drug dealer. That's how they see him. It doesn't matter that he's suspected of doing it. “Drug dealer” is lo uder than “suspected” ever will be.
Starr worries about answering the District Attorney’s questions because she doesn’t know if Khalil had a gun in the car. Ms. Ofrah explains that the “gun” was a hairbrush that One-Fifteen claims he mistook for a gun. She wonders how One-Fifteen’s father will address the hairbrush in his upcoming television interview.
That afternoon, Lisa brings Starr to the Just Us for Justice headquarters, which is decorated with photos of Black Power activists. Ms. Ofrah greets them and calls Khalil’s death a murder. Maverick arrives after dropping DeVante at Mr. Lewis’s.
Summary: Chapter 12. Starr sees a tank passing on her street, flanked by an officer who reminds the neighborhood that the police will arrest anyone violating curfew. Starr checks her new blog, The Khalil I Know, where she shares photos from Khalil’s childhood.
Summary: Chapter 13. In Maverick’s office, Mr. Lewis explains how the King Lords beat him up. Mr. Lewis insists that DeVante is actually the one in real danger. King ordered the King Lords to kill DeVante on sight. Maverick attacks DeVante, shouting that King would not want DeVante dead for refusing to shoot someone.
Lisa stayed with Maverick after he cheated on her with Iesha because she decided that the good in their relationship outweighed the bad. She advises Starr to think the same way about Hailey, and decide whether the relationship is worth saving. If not, Starr should let Hailey go.
Lisa encourages Starr to make a list of the good and bad parts of her relationship with Hailey.
Maverick’s defense of DeVante is a challenge to King’s power over the neighborhood. Starr and Maverick pick up food from Reuben ’s for dinner on the way home. At dinner Lisa casually mentions that she has a second interview for a job at the same hospital where Pam, Carlos ’s wife and a surgeon, works.
Maverick reveals his vulnerability, something black men are not always allowed to exhibit in society. His distrust of Chris does not really have anything to do with Chris as a person, though Starr asserts that the lessons her father has taught her cross racial boundaries. Active Themes.
If not, Starr should let Hailey go . Starr has apparently always deferred to Hailey, who here acts as a sort of stand-in for white society in general. Lisa’s speech about Maverick’s infidelity reflects the novel’s broader theme that people are more than their mistakes.
King pulls up to the store in his gray BMW and asks for DeVante ’s whereabouts. Maverick denies knowing where he is. King then says he knows Starr is the witness the news is talking about, and that she better “keep her mouth shut.”.
Active Themes. Later that day Starr meets the DA, a white woman named Karen Monroe who apologizes for taking so long to meet.
After Starr takes her plate, Lisa asks her to bring food out to Maverick and Uncle Carlos. Starr is shocked to find they’ve talked out their differences. Nana calls Starr to come and get ready. Previous section Chapters 16-17 Next page Chapters 18-19 page 2.
Starr feels sick, realizing that this is a message for her. When Uncle Carlos arrives, he asks whether Maverick called the police. Maverick insists that the police may have been the ones who shot at them. Uncle Carlos insists it had to have been the King Lords.
Starr worries that Maverick will get shot, but he returns unharmed. The gunmen shoot through the front of the house and throw a brick through the front window. Lisa calls Uncle Carlos. Neighbors come to check on them, but no one knows who fired the shots. Starr feels sick, realizing that this is a message for her.
Maverick accuses him of refusing to protect Starr because he’s afraid of being seen with gang members. Uncle Carlos reminds Maverick of how he cared for Starr and Seven while Maverick was in prison. He storms out of the house.
Goon, a member of the Cedar Grove King Lords, arrives. Maverick asked him and others to provide security for the family over the next two days. Uncle Carlos threatens not to come to the courthouse if gang members are accompanying them. Maverick accuses him of refusing to protect Starr because he’s afraid of being seen with gang members. Uncle Carlos reminds Maverick of how he cared for Starr and Seven while Maverick was in prison. He storms out of the house.
Starr awakens to the smell of bacon and a feeling of dread. Today is the day she will try to secure justice for Khalil. The kitchen is full of Cedar Grove King Lords. Lisa, Aunt Pam, and Nana cook breakfast. After Starr takes her plate, Lisa asks her to bring food out to Maverick and Uncle Carlos.
Sekani asks Maverick if he’s OK living in the suburbs with the “fake” people , as Maverick calls them. Maverick has decided that being “real” is not about where they live, and the most important thing he can do is protect his family. The family eats lunch on the floor of the kitchen.
Rosalie a decent amount of money, not only to help repay her for all the times she helped take care of their kids, but also to help pay for Khalil's funeral
Acronym is "The Hate U Give Little Infants F----s Everybody." Khalil says it means, "What society give us as youth, it bites them in the a--- when we wild out."
Mav believes that if Starr goes to the police station, the police will search for a justification for the police's shooting of Khalil, rather than investigate the truth.
Starr tells Maya and Hailey, "I don't know that Khalil" (113) Why?
A black teenage boy from Garden Heights and member of the King Lords gang. DeVante attempts to leave the King Lords after King gives him an assignment that DeVante knows will lead to his own death. Despite his cocky exterior, DeVante cares deeply for his family and others. He has a crush on Kenya.
Mother to Starr and Sekani, and step-mother to Seven. Lisa is a nurse and a loving but firm mother. Although she comes off as strict, Lisa has a compassionate heart and teaches the importance of forgiveness and second chances. She fiercely protects her children and always reminds her husband, Maverick, not to push the children too far into dangerous activism.
Ms. Rosalie's daughter Tammy and Lisa were best friends, and Ms. Rosalie took in Lisa when her parents kicked her out once she became pregnant in high school. Additionally, Ms. Rosalie helped take care of Lisa's kids so she wouldn't have to drop out of school.