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Introduction to the characters
Maverick: is the father of a main character in the book 'the hate u give'. In this novel he's 17 years old and he's a gang member because his father was in this gang too.
The father/Adonis: is in prison for a long sentence because he's in the gang, he had a big role in the gang thus leaving a reputation for Maverick to uphold.
The mom/Faye: they do'nt have a lot of money and live in a poor black neighboorhood. So she has to work hard at the hospital and make long hours to have enough money. -
Introduction part 2
Lisa: the girlfriend of Maverick, is not involved with a gang. She goes to a different school than Maverick, one where a lot more white kids go. Lisa is pretty smart and focuses on school, she also knows what kind of education she wants after high school unlike Mav.
Mr. Wyatt: is an old man who has a little grocery store in the neighborhood. He offers Maverick a job to work at his store and also help clean up te garden next to it. He is pretty strict and grumpy but he is also kind to Maverick. -
Beginning scene of the book
Mav is playing basketball with some guys of the gang called King Lords. His best friend King is also part of the gang, him and Mav have a small role in the gang. They don't get paid as much as the guys with bigger roles. So King has started dealing drugs outside of the gang and Mav joins him. King has a loose relationship with Iesha. We learn that Mav has hooked up with her a while back when he wasn't in a relationship with Lisa. -
Iesha pregnant
Iesha had a baby and everyone thinks it's King's. That's why the baby boy was named King Jr. But since Mav has hooked up with Iesha it could be his baby, to find this out they meet up at the hospital. Here they do a DNA test and discovered that Mav is the father of the baby. After Mav got the DNA results at the hospital, he finds out that Iesha has disappeared and left the baby behind. Now he has to take care of this baby, luckily he has the help of his mom. -
Taking care of the baby
While Maverick is freaking out about the fact that he is now a dad and that Iesha has dissapeared, he has another problem. He needs to earn more money to be able to take care of the baby. So he takes the job at mr.Wyatt's store. Dre is family of Maverick and a couple years older than him. He has a fiance and a one year old baby. Maverick is pretty close with Dre and tells him about the baby and Iesha. Dre advises him to stop dealing drugs and focus on working for mr. Wyatt. -
Telling Lisa the truth
After their conversation, Dre drives Mav to Lisa's house so that he can tell her about the baby. Lisa breaks up with Mav when he tells her about it. Maverick is really sad because he really liked Lisa. -
A warning for Dre
The next day when Mav js at school a guy namend Ant walka up to Mav. He is a member of the garden disciples, which is a rival gang from the King Lords. He tells Mav to warn Dre because he came into the garden disciples territory. -
Something happens to Dre
Mav focuses on school and on working for mr. Wyatt. Dre surprises him one night, and they hang out and get some food. Later that nights when Dre and Mav sit in Dre's car, Mav checks up on his baby that he named Seven. While he's in the house doing that, he hears gun shots. He runs up to the street and sees that Dre was shot. Mav thinks that Ant did it cause he threatened Dre a month before at school. -
The funeral of Dre
Mav is obviously very upset about the death of Dre. At the funeral het told one of the more important gang members of the King Lords that he suspects that Ant killed Dre. He hopes that the gang member will take revenge for Dre. After the funeral Mav and Lisa talk for a long time for the first after they broke up. The end up having unprotected sex, because they missed each other. 3 weeks later they find out that Lisa is pregnant, but she doesn't want to be with Mav since he's part of the gang. -
What happens after they find out Lisa's pregnant
Mav and his mom went to visit his dad to tell him Lisa's pregnant, his dad is disappointed about this. Later, Mav hears that Lisa is kicked out of her parents house after they heard she was pregant, and now she stays at a friend's house. Mav's embarresed that he can't provide for Lisa and his baby, so he decides to start dealing drugs again. -
About the death of Dre
When was found after the gun shots, his watch was stolen. So when Maverick sees a guy named Red wearing Dre's watch he freaks out. Red runs away before Mav can talk to him but he keeps thinking about it. He tells (again) one of the bigger homies about this, expecting that he would do something about it but he doesn't care. It is now that Mav realizes things have changed in the gang, and he feels less safe in it. Mr. Wyatt sees that Mav is going through a lot and gives him advise about his future -
Mav is losing his mind
Mav was never really good at school but since he became a dad his grades got much worse and he decided to drop out. He still suspects that Red killed Dre and the idea of killing Red is harder to resist every day. King and Mav aren't very close since they found out about Seven. Yet Dre visits King and tells him about his troubles. King says he should take revenge and he gives him his gun. Later on, Mav speaks to Dre's fiance and another witness of the murder and he knows Red is the murderer. -
taking revenge?
Mav has now a gun and he really wants to take revenge. He knows where Red will be since he has followed him for the past few days. One night he stands behind Red and hold him at gun point but he's unable to pull the trigger and runs away. Shortly after he goes to Lisa and tells her about what just happened, she comforts him and he decides to turn his life around! -
Maverick is turning his life around
Maverick decides to stop dealing drugs, he packs up the drugs he got from King but accidentally a part of it drops in to the toilet. Now he owes King money. King is very mad and says they'll get even one day. Mav is planning to go back to school, not high school but GED. He tells mr Wyatt about his plans and he offers a full time job at his store which Mav accepts. In all this time he and mr Wyatt grew quite close and Mav has learned to garden from mr Wyatt. -
epilogue
Mav proves to Lisa she can depend on him by working hard. He isn't a member of the gang anymore, is going back to school and has a full time stable job. They end up being back together and will raise the two kids (Seven and the Lisa's baby) together. They find out that they will have a girl, and decide to name her Starr. This is because she is the light in their darkness. She is the main character of the book 'the hate u give'. And this was the prequel to that story.