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“Once upon a time there was a hazel-eyed boy with dimples. I
called him Khalil. The world called him a thug. He lived, but no nearly long
enough, and for the rest of my life I’ll remember how he died” (p. 442-443).
Starr is a teenager caught between two worlds. One world is where
she lives with her family and helps them with their store in Garden Heights; a
low income, hardworking neighborhood, facing violence in the streets due to the
competing gangs in the area. The other worlds is where she goes to school,
Williamson. In this world there are gated communities, suburbs, and what some
would call “champagne problems.”
Both her worlds are shattered, when a police officer guns
down a childhood friend in her neighborhood during a “routine traffic” stop and
all she could do was watch from the passenger side of her friend’s car.
Now, she must make a choice. Silence or Speak Out?
“I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would
have the loudest voice, making sure the world know what went down. Now I am
that person, and I’m too afraid to speak” (p. 35).
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