This Novel talks about how the movement expanded to outside resources. To talk about the movement they created books, movies, etc. to explain how African Americans are being treated by police officers. The importance is they first offer a greater comprehension of the movement’s history and context, including the institutional racism and discrimination that have sparked continuous battles for racial justice and equality. Readers can develop a more detailed knowledge of the issues at hand and the movement’s complexity by digging deeper into this history.

1. “The Hate U Give represents a high-water mark for an already-rich archive of what we might label BLM novels.1 A fictionalized representation of the precipitating events and formation of BLM, the retrospective quality of this realist novel offers an opportunity to reflect on the novelistic strategies pursued by African American novelists since the murder of Trayvon Martin” (Haddad 40).
2. “The Hate U Give re-asserts what Saidiya V. Hartman calls the “precariousness of empathy” from 19th-century accounts of racial terror, in which there becomes an “uncertain line between witness and spectator” for the reader, and demonstrates how the direction of empathy all too easily shifts away from victims and towards the perpetrators of state-sanctioned violence”( Haddad 41).