![]() I remember thinking when I was seventeen that I was pretty much grown up, but when you get a little wiser and realize that you were literally still a kid at that age…it makes you want to hug the poor kid when he has to make some decisions no seventeen-year-old should. Maybe it’s the teacher in me, but watching poor Maverick try so hard and struggle to raise his son further endeared him to me. You see where he’s coming from when he complains, but you also know that he will have to man up and do the right thing anyway. He is still a good and loving person, but he clearly has some growing up to do, which makes his character so engaging. ![]() It is interesting to see him as a dumb-in-a-teenage-way seventeen-year-old. But gang-related drama further turns Maverick’s world upside-down, and he will have to make some tough choices to keep his family safe and learn to be an upstanding man in his community.įor context, Maverick is the father of Starr, the heroine of The Hate U Give. On top of school and work, Maverick now has to look after an infant he has no idea how to raise. ![]() Seventeen-year-old Maverick Carter lives a normal life in the Garden Heights neighborhood, but soon finds out he is a father. ![]()
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