#Movie the hate you give code#

While writing the short story, the project quickly expanded, though Thomas put it aside for a few years after graduation. Shaken by the 2009 police shooting of Oscar Grant, then-college student Angie Thomas began the project as a short story for her senior project in Belhaven University's creative writing program.

The novel was also adapted into an audiobook, won several awards and praise for its narrator, Bahni Turpin. The book was adapted into a film by 20th Century Fox in OctoberВ 2018, which received positive reviews. These themes, as well as the vulgar language, attracted some controversy and caused the book to be one of the most challenged books of 20 according to the American Library Association.

#Movie the hate you give code#

In writing the novel, Thomas attempted to expand readers' understanding of the Black Lives Matter movement as well as difficulties faced by black Americans who employ code switching. It won several awards and received critical praise for Thomas's writing and timely subject matter. The book was a commercial success, debuting at number one on The New York Times young adult best-seller list, where it remained for 50 weeks. The Hate U Give was published on FebruaryВ 28, 2017, by HarperCollins imprint Balzer + Bray, which had won a bidding war for the rights to the novel. She speaks up about the shooting in increasingly public ways, and social tensions culminate in a riot after a grand jury decides not to indict the police officer for the shooting. Starr becomes entangled in a national news story after she witnesses a white police officer shoot and kill her childhood friend, Khalil. The book is narrated by Starr Carter, a 16-year-old black girl from a poor neighborhood who attends an elite private school in a predominantly white, affluent part of the city. It is Thomas's debut novel, expanded from a short story she wrote in college in reaction to the police shooting of Oscar Grant. The Hate U Give is a 2017 young adult novel by Angie Thomas.