JOLMS Discuss Media

In this day and age, our attention spans are obviously limited. We can barely sit through a 60 second video, so who’s got the time to sit down and read a book?  Nevertheless, there are people out there who go through, like, a hundred books a year. No matter how hard I’ve tried to get sucked into novel like these people seem to do, no matter how hard I try to focus and become a reading freak, I have never been able to do it. It feels kind of humiliating. Why can’t I just read? Well. I got my ADHD diagnosis a few years ago, and that explained a lot. I wasn’t any more encouraged, though. I got my medicine and supplements, but for some reason, nothing happened.  For a really, really long time, I could still barely focus on half a chapter for schoolwork—much less enjoy one of the dozens of books people had recommended and raved about to me. I told my friends about this, praying they had some sort of advice or magical cure. Of course not.  “ shii bro 💀 ” was probably the most compassionat

Hello Everyone!  A couple days ago, I finished reading The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. (For the fifth time. Yes, it is that good). So I decided I might as well share its amazingness with everyone! The title The Hate U Give is short for “T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.” “T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E.” means The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody. What this means: the hate America gives people at the bottom of society ends up biting them in the butt when they get older. Since the education in these low-income communities isn’t very good, people can’t get jobs. Since people can’t get jobs, people have to sell drugs. The art of selling drugs is a billion-dollar industry; they get flown into to these communities, then sold to people who sell them for more. But then, the police come and end up killing one of these people due to assumptions about low-income communities and then the people “fuck” them up by protesting and rioting because of this continuous cycle.  Throughout the story, Angie Thomas brings up