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As I continue to analyze The Hate U Give with a variety of theories, I uncover so many different perspectives and aspects of the book that I would have never encountered with just passively reading the novel. Angie Thomas’s novel uses the Postcolonial Theory to capture the attention of readers about a very controversial, but important issue. She tackles the issue of police brutality and the continuing racial divide between black and white individuals. She expresses a very dominant message towards the Black Lives Matter movement and the reality of the mistreatment the black community faces. A very big idea of the Postcolonial Theory that heavily applies to The Hate U Give is the concept of cultural hegemony. Cultural hegemony was described by Karl Marx as the idea that a ruling class dominates a culturally diverse society by changing their views and their culture so that their domination becomes culturally accepted. The novel speaks heavily on the domination of ce...

When I started to dive into The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, I quickly noticed that there were a few characters that really stood out. This novel talks about a 16 year old girl named Starr Carter who lives in two separate worlds. On one hand, she lives in a poor black community, but on the other hand, she attends to a fancy rich suburbian prep school. Her world is quickly turned upside down when she witnesses the killing of her childhood best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Starr eventually finds herself in the middle of a battle between telling what really happened that night and knowing what she decides to say may hurt her community. Starr , her mother Lisa , and her father Maverick will be the focus on today’s blog post as we talk about the different archetypes of the novel. The Archetypal Hero- Starr Carter I consider Starr the archetypal hero in this novel because I feel that many of the characteristics of the archetypal hero are very fitting with Starr. Sta...

How often is it that when you scroll through Google News, Twitter, or Instagram that you'll see singers like Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, or Ariana Grande being accused of ripping off a song? Well, I realized see it way more often than I thought I did. However, one of the most controversial accusations of ripping off a song is Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby." When the song came out, many people noticed that it the baseline was very similar to David Bowie and Queen's hit "Under Pressure." Many have claimed that Vanilla Ice altered the rhythm of the baseline, making it slightly shorter. If we begin to analyze the two songs together, we’ll see that right away in the first few seconds of both songs, they sound identical. In case you wanted to follow along, I’m referring to both music videos of the tracks. At exactly 0:01 in David Bowie and Queen's hit Under Pressure , and 0:08 of Vanilla Ice’s Ice Ice Baby , you can hear the exact same baseline of ...