Like she said, he didn’t pull the trigger on himself.’” ‘You keep asking her about Khalil, like he’s the reason he’s dead. ‘You haven’t asked my child about that cop yet,’ Momma says. ‘Are y’all putting Kalil and Starr on trial or the cop who killed him’?”. A lot of people assumed Khalil was a gang-banger, and got “what he deserved.” Lisa says to a reporter: Moreover, to her family’s dismay, all the focus is on Khalil and what kind of person he was.
‘It means you go on even though you’re scared. But her mom tells her: “‘Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared, Starr,’ she says. She has nightmares about the policeman who shot Khalil – his badge number was One-Fifteen, so that’s how she thinks of him. The key is to never stop doing right.”īut Starr is reluctant at first to speak out and bear witness to what happened that night she fears – not unreasonably as it turns out – reprisals by the police on her family. As her mom Lisa tells her: “Sometimes you can do everything right and things will still go wrong. The other talk was about what to do if a cop stopped me.” “When I was twelve, my parents had two talks with me. Khalil is shot and killed, and everything is turned upside down for Starr. On the way home, they are stopped by police. She discovers too that she has become ashamed of where she lives and everything and everyone in it.Īll that starts to change when Starr goes to a neighborhood party and leaves with her childhood friend Khalil after they hear gunshots. Part of me feels like I can’t exist around people like him.” As much as I say I don’t have to choose which Starr I am with Chris, maybe without realizing it, I have to an extent.
I’ve taught myself to speak with two different voices and only say certain things around certain people. “Being two different people is so exhausting. To some extent though, going to Williamson High has led Starr to change some of who she is in order to fit in she feels like she has turned into two different people – one at home and one at school: In this novel for young adults, the parents of Starr Carter, 16, have sent her to an upscale school in a nearby predominantly white community for the past six years, ever since one of Starr’s best friends, Natasha, got killed in the crossfire in Starr’s poor, black, gang-riddled neighborhood.
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