Her boyfriend, Chris, stumbles through a crash course in how to be an ally, trying his hardest to help her. This exasperates Starr, and she begins breaking rank from one of her white girlfriends who really doesn’t understand what’s going on. Although only a short drive away, her classmates seem entirely disconnected from the problems facing the neighborhood next door. She suffers from post traumatic stress and seems to wander the halls of her school, unsure of what’s she doing there at all. The event is a seismic one for the community and for Starr, who finds herself swept up in the media frenzy and the outrage. He had mistaken the hairbrush in the boy’s hand as a weapon and shot first before asking any questions. The officer handcuffs Starr next to her dying friend. When the cop walks away to run Khalil’s license, the teenager carelessly reaches for his hairbrush to pass the time. Starr tries to coach him through her father’s warnings: hands on the dashboard, do what they say. A cop pulls them over for some unexplained reason, and Khalil gets defensive. On their way back to Starr’s home, the two teens reminisce about old times and even share a kiss. A fight breaks out at the party, interrupting their meet-cute, and the two drive off in Khalil’s car. Starr’s awkward feelings are pushed aside for a moment when an old childhood friend and first crush, Khalil ( Algee Smith), approaches her with a smile completed by dimples. She feels out-of-place both at her white prep school where white kids love to use black slang and at a neighborhood party her friend brings her to so Starr can help her out in a fight. But the unintended consequence of having one foot in two different social circles is that you never really feel balanced in either. The story then jumps forward to when Starr ( Amandla Stenberg) is a vibrant 16-year-old who plays on her school’s basketball team and finds love in a goofy yet earnest white classmate named Chris (K.J. She is nine-years-old in this scene, her older brother is ten and the youngest member of the Carter family is just a year old, still fussing in his mother’s arms. It’s the difference between life and death. Put their hands on the dashboard do as they say.
When the audience first meets her in George Tillman Jr.’s film, her stern-voiced dad, Maverick ( Russell Hornsby), is teaching his children what to do if a police officer stops the car they’re in. Both the book and movie follow Starr Carter, a black teenager well-versed in code-switching between her black community in Garden Heights and the prep school her parents send her and her siblings to in the ostentatiously white and wealthy Williamson neighborhood.
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