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Bronson Clarke
Jennifer is Maxine’s best friend in primary school. When Maxine’s classmates write a series of comments about Maxine after she is chosen as Student of the Week, almost all of them have to do with Maxine’s race except for Jennifer’s comment, which is an entire paragraph about all of Maxine’s best qualities. Jennifer’s writing means a great deal to Maxine and helps her realize the power of words. However, Jennifer later fails to stand up for Maxine and Bronson when they’re targeted by racist bullies in the neighborhood, which causes Maxine to drift away from her.
Jennifer Quotes in The Hate Race
The The Hate Race quotes below are all either spoken by Jennifer or refer to Jennifer. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4
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Inside the empty girl’s toilet block, I re-read my Student of the Week album then tore a jagged line between Jennifer’s words and the other comments. I read Jennifer’s words out loud to myself once, then twice, then four more times. I had never had anything written about me before, except for my kindergarten school reports and things the doctor wrote down in her folder when I was sick. The things Jennifer wrote were solid things now. She had grabbed them from the air when I spoke to the class, and listened to them. She had made them real.
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Chapter 10
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But the scene at the bike park just kept looping in my head. Her silence. The way they’d suddenly disappeared. I knew they were scared. I knew they were just kids. But so were we. My friend’s silence hurt more than the names we’d been called—more than seeing my brother’s bloody, grazed knee.
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Jennifer Quotes in The Hate Race
The The Hate Race quotes below are all either spoken by Jennifer or refer to Jennifer. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 4
Quotes
Inside the empty girl’s toilet block, I re-read my Student of the Week album then tore a jagged line between Jennifer’s words and the other comments. I read Jennifer’s words out loud to myself once, then twice, then four more times. I had never had anything written about me before, except for my kindergarten school reports and things the doctor wrote down in her folder when I was sick. The things Jennifer wrote were solid things now. She had grabbed them from the air when I spoke to the class, and listened to them. She had made them real.
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 10
Quotes
But the scene at the bike park just kept looping in my head. Her silence. The way they’d suddenly disappeared. I knew they were scared. I knew they were just kids. But so were we. My friend’s silence hurt more than the names we’d been called—more than seeing my brother’s bloody, grazed knee.
