The Hate U Give is a book written by Angie Thomas, a writer from Mississippi. This book is about a young woman named Starr that lives in the bad part of her town, but attends a preppy school 40 minutes away, this book shows the struggles she has between the two worlds, and what losing people you love can do to a person. Blink is a book about snap judgments and how you can use them and control your unconscious mind. The Hate U Give and Blink both shows how a snap judgment and your unconscious mind can help you and hurt you in specific situations. The cop from the shooting is an example of how the unconscious mind can fail you, and how stereotypes can ruin your unconscious mind. Kahil, the childhood friend of Starr, is a great example of how
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He wasn’t thinking straight. Kahil had heard stories about black people who were killed by white cops in his area of town. Kahil probably froze, his heart rate rose, and he did what his unconscious mind told him to do. “At 175, we begin to see an absolute breakdown of cognitive processing… the forebrain breakdown, and the mid-brain—the part of your brain that is the same as your dog’s—reaches up and hijacks the forebrain.” This quote shows that when your heartrate becomes too high you don’t think or process stuff better than a dog. This could explain why kahil was so defensive and disrespectful to the cop. After the shooting, most people assumed right away that he was a drug dealer. The people thought oh he is a black man in the bad part of town he must have done something wrong. Even though he really was a drug dealer people shouldn’t be stereotyped before you know them. People unconsciously stereotype everyone they meat by race, religion, where they live, or their sexual orientation. Obviously, stereotypes come from somewhere so some people fit the serotypes, but it shouldn’t be what we first label people with we should make opinions on people based on their personality. The hate you give shows how these stereotypes we label on people can affect people’s lives …show more content…
“When I was twelve, my parents had two talks with me. One was the usual birds and the bees. … The other talk was about what to do if a cop stopped me. Momma fussed and told daddy I was too young for that. He argued that I wasn’t too young to get arrested or shot. “Keep your hands visible. Don’t make any sudden moves. Only speak when they speak to you.””(Hate you give pg. 20) Starr was told this by her dad at age 12, and she remembered this when kahil got pulled over. She didn’t do exactly what her dad told her what to do without having to think about it. In blink in chapter two page 48, it says “In tennis, players are given two chances to successfully hit a serve, and if they miss on their second chance, they are said to double-fault, and what Braden realized was that he always knew when a player was about to double fault.” This chapter of blink shows how past knowledge, or experiences can help a person realize something, or do something in there unconscious before their conscious mind knows what happens. This is what Starr did when they got pulled over. Her unconscious mind made a responsible and appropriate decision to the problem at hand using her past knowledge and experiences to come to this
He wasn’t thinking straight. Kahil had heard stories about black people who were killed by white cops in his area of town. Kahil probably froze, his heart rate rose, and he did what his unconscious mind told him to do. “At 175, we begin to see an absolute breakdown of cognitive processing… the forebrain breakdown, and the mid-brain—the part of your brain that is the same as your dog’s—reaches up and hijacks the forebrain.” This quote shows that when your heartrate becomes too high you don’t think or process stuff better than a dog. This could explain why kahil was so defensive and disrespectful to the cop. After the shooting, most people assumed right away that he was a drug dealer. The people thought oh he is a black man in the bad part of town he must have done something wrong. Even though he really was a drug dealer people shouldn’t be stereotyped before you know them. People unconsciously stereotype everyone they meat by race, religion, where they live, or their sexual orientation. Obviously, stereotypes come from somewhere so some people fit the serotypes, but it shouldn’t be what we first label people with we should make opinions on people based on their personality. The hate you give shows how these stereotypes we label on people can affect people’s lives …show more content…
“When I was twelve, my parents had two talks with me. One was the usual birds and the bees. … The other talk was about what to do if a cop stopped me. Momma fussed and told daddy I was too young for that. He argued that I wasn’t too young to get arrested or shot. “Keep your hands visible. Don’t make any sudden moves. Only speak when they speak to you.””(Hate you give pg. 20) Starr was told this by her dad at age 12, and she remembered this when kahil got pulled over. She didn’t do exactly what her dad told her what to do without having to think about it. In blink in chapter two page 48, it says “In tennis, players are given two chances to successfully hit a serve, and if they miss on their second chance, they are said to double-fault, and what Braden realized was that he always knew when a player was about to double fault.” This chapter of blink shows how past knowledge, or experiences can help a person realize something, or do something in there unconscious before their conscious mind knows what happens. This is what Starr did when they got pulled over. Her unconscious mind made a responsible and appropriate decision to the problem at hand using her past knowledge and experiences to come to this