History Literature / TheHateUGive

* AsiansEatPets: Discussed. Starr is starting to get fed up with Hailey's racism and their friend Maya agrees and points out that freshman year, Hailey asked if Maya, who is Chinese, ate a cat for Thanksgiving. This was after revealing that her grandparents were visiting from China and got to celebrate Thanksgiving for the first time. When they point this out to Hailey, she refuses to take accountability because [[it was all a joke to her JustJokingJustification.]]

** Subverted by Hailey. At first, her racist comments come off as a privileged white girl who doesn't know any better, but it becomes clear that she doesn't ''want'' to know any better. She gets extremely defensive whenever she's called out on being racist, insisting she's "just joking" and those offended are being too sensitive, and refuses to change.

---> ''How many of us have to die before y'all get it?!''
* AsiansEatPets: Starr is starting to get fed up with Hailey's racism. Her friend Maya agrees and points out that freshman year, Hailey asked if Maya, who is Chinese, ate a cat for Thanksgiving. This was after revealing that her grandparents were visiting from China and got to celebrate Thanksgiving for the first time.

** In the movie, there's a moment right as Maverick and Seven are being manhandled by a couple of cops, then one of them notice Start recording and order her to stop. She refuses and points out she's within her right, then a bystander steps out of a restaurant to reveal she's also recording and tells the cops to continue with their cruel treatment of Starr's family. One quick zoom-put reveals that ''everyone inside the restaurant'' are also recording the entire event, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere prompting the cops to leave the scene.]]

** Starr sarcastically comments that DeVante's become cooler than ComicBook/SpiderMan to Sekani.

Two companion books exist: ''Literature/OnTheComeUp'', which takes place in Garden Heights a few months after the events of ''The Hate U Give'' but does not feature any characters from it, and ''Literature/ConcreteRose'', which is about Maverick Carter in his senior year of high school.

* BigFriendlyDog: The Carter family's pitbull Brickz (so named because he's as heavy as a bunch of bricks).

* UngratefulBitch: Once Seven finally gives a CallingTheOldManOut moment towards Iesha, he points out that he defended her from King’s abusing her into a bloody pulp, and she repaid her son’s protective stance by kicking him out. She accuses Seven of being the ungrateful one just [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency because she gave birth to him and raised him for a small portion of his life]], but Seven is having none of it.

* UngratefulBitch: A part of Seven’s CallingTheOldManOut moment towards Iesha, he points out that he defended her from King’s abusing her into a bloody pulp, and she repaid her son’s protective stance by kicking him out. She accuses Seven of being the ungrateful one just [[WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency because she gave birth to him and raised him for a small portion of his life]], but Seven is having none of it.

** Uncle Carlos took care of Starr when Maverick ended up in jail. He punches Officer Cruise on learning that the latter threatened his niece, which gets him put on paid leave.

* AsiansEatPets: Starr is starting to get fed up with Hailey's racism. Her friend Maya agrees and points out that freshman year, Hailey asked if Maya, who is Chinese, ate cat for Thanksgiving.

* NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: The entire ''neighborhood'' pulls this on [[spoiler:King at the end. After Maverick openly names King as a criminal, the other residents of the neighborhood follow, confirming Maverick's story.]]

* ObnoxiousInLaws: Lisa's brother and mother don't really get along with Maverick, he feels the same way. The former is treated with more seriousness and the two men do act civilly towards one another while the latter is treated with comedy as Starr's grandmother complains about BOTH Maverick and her daughter-in-law Lisa.

A FilmOfTheBook was released in October 2018, starring Creator/AmandlaStenberg as Starr.

* GenderFlip: DA Monroe is a woman in the books and a man in the movie.

* ButNotTooBlack: Averted in the book, played straight in the film. Starr is depicted in the book (as on the front cover) as dark-skinned, while she is played by Creator/AmandlaStenberg, who is Black but very light-skinned.

* AdaptationalNameChange: In the book, One-Fifteen’s real name is Brian Cruise Jr. In the movie, he’s Brian MacIntosh.

** However, it's also a DeconstructedTrope. The media reporting Khalil as a "suspected drug dealer", and then confirming it, is seen by some as a crossing of the MoralEventHorizon that justifies his death. This is despite the fact he was doing it to raise money to support his grandma, and was trying to "get out of the game" before he died. One character says out loud that [[AcceptableTargets the world's better off with one less drug-dealer]], and the detectives who investigate Starr try to get her to confirm he was a dealer to make things easier for One-Fifteen.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: [[spoiler:When Chris finds out that Starr was the witness, he gives Starr the silent treatment for a while until the two blow up at each other. Starr calls out Chris on the fact that she watched someone die (which Chris has never done) and Chris is angry at her because she didn't handle her trauma correctly (a fair point). However, Chris points out that what ''really'' upset him was the fact that Starr didn't trust him enough to let him in on a whole other part of her life, including where she lived and who her best friend was (also a fair point).]]

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Averted. [[spoiler:Chris and Starr don't have sex because, as Chris points out when Starr tries to initiate it, she's ''traumatized'', and not in the proper frame of mind to make such a big, potentially life-altering decision.]]

* TokenMinorityCouple: The only black student at Williamson who's not related to Starr is a guy called Ryan. [[SubvertedTrope Both are dating other people.]] Starr points out that a lot of people ''expect'' them to date, though, as part of some "Noah's Ark type shit."

* AdultFear:
** Khalil's death, which Starr is ForcedToWatch. His mother sobs over his casket.
** Maverick decided to get out of the drug selling business because he wanted to be there for his kids, and not repeat his {{Disappeared Dad}}'s mistakes.
** "The Talk" in both the film and book is this. It refers not to sex, but to how to communicate with the police as black people and stay alive. Even Sekani, who's in ''elementary school'', isn't exempt. Maverick is forced to disabuse his kids of some innocence to help them survive.

* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Subverted; Maverick is worried this is the case when he finds out Starr is dating a white boy. Starr assures him that it's not the case; her dad taught her that she wanted to date a guy like him.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: At the end of the novel, [[spoiler:Hailey]] sends Starr a text saying she's sorry to hear about the court's decision, she's sorry that she upset Starr so much, and she wants to be friends again. While this makes her a ''slightly'' better person, Starr notes that at no point did she apologise for her actions or anything she said, just that Starr was upset. So Starr cuts her off for good.

** Chris at one point asks why black parents often give their kids "weird" names. Starr and her friends point out to him that many of those names have deep meanings in other languages, and, more to the point, it's not like white parents don't give their kids ridiculous names, too. Chris admits they're right, and apologizes for phrasing the question the way he did.
** Subverted by Hailey. At first, her racist comments come off as a privileged white girl who doesn't know any better, but it quickly becomes clear that she doesn't ''want'' to know any better. She gets incredibly defensive whenever she's called out, and refuses to change.

* MalignedMixedMarriage: Chris and Starr aren't anywhere near marriage yet, but Starr notices that a lot of their classmates seem to think Chris shouldn't be dating her. She also hides the relationship from her father, since Maverick has often spoken ill of mixed relationships in the past. [[spoiler:Eventually Maverick finds out, and he's flabbergasted at first, but he gets over it. By the end of the story, he realizes that Chris is a good guy, and starts to warm up to him.]]

** Chris. He adores Starr, and [[spoiler:when he finally finds out the full truth about the shooting and Starr's role in it, he's supportive, even accompanying Starr and the others to the violent protest.]]

** Lisa is a devoted mother, and is kind and supportive throughout.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: [[spoiler:Starr eventually gives one to Hailey (as Seven gives one to Hailey's brother) when Hailey says that Khalil was probably going to die young anyway.]]
* NoSympathy: Once she's backed into a corner over her racist comments by Maya and Starr, Hailey lashes out hard over Khalil's death, saying that as a drug-dealer and gangbanger he would have died young anyway, and that One-Fifteen put an end to him before he could hurt anyone else. [[spoiler:Starr responds by punching her in the face.]] Later, she apologises...but it's an apology for hurting Starr and for Starr being upset, not for anything she said about Khalil.