Analysis of Novel- The Hate You Give

We are going to be analyzing literature (our novel The Hate U Give). What is your mindset toward analyzing literature? Do you have any experience doing it in high school? Does it evoke bad memories of b.s.ing your way through Shakespeare & SparkNotes, or is analyzing literature something you enjoy? Analyzing the main character Starr's personality. The novel is narrated from Starr's perspective -- what we call 1st person p.o.v. -- and as readers, we get access to her thoughts & mindset. A simple way to explain literary analysis is that you take a pattern of details (what we call textual evidence), and from that pattern of details you try to infer some character traits about Starr's personality. Here is a list of details that we learn about Starr in the novel's first few pages: ● she has Jordan's; ● she wears an oversized hoodie to a party; ● she's nauseated by weed smoke; ● she says things like "Do I look like I care what people think?" (5); ● she goes to Williamson prep; ● people in Garden Heights know her as "Big Mav's daughter at the store"; ● she plays basketball; ● she has a boyfriend Chris but she's a teensy flirtatious with Khalil; ● her dad used to be a King Lord. 3. What do all of these details reveal about what type of person she is, what pressures she is under?