There were plenty of times that she could be pretty impulsive and stubborn, especially when she vented out her feelings on how the media was treating her on a live broadcast on Instagram.
Bri, on the other hand, had no trouble doing that, but she has a problem of when to utilize it. She eventually learns the importance of speaking up. Starr is a passive character who’s a good person and clearly the victim in her situation. It also helps that Starr from The Hate U Give and Bri are two different characters. In other words, I was engaged during the time that I read it. I wanted her to speak when she choked or refused to stand up for herself, cheered when she spat out some awesome flows and rhymes, and yelled at her when she did something incredibly stupid. The novel makes readers like me pumped for Bri’s rapping as well as root for her success. Much like the main character, On the Come Up has a lot to live up to, and it was a wonderful read. Basically, this is the song “Lose Yourself” and the movie 8 Mile in book form. But with her family facing the possibility of homelessness, Bri knows that she has to make it. She finds herself in the middle of a controversy with the media portraying her as a menace rather than a MC. Bri decides to pour out her frustrations into her first song, which goes viral…for all the wrong reasons. However, when her mom unexpectedly loses her job, food banks and shutoff notices became normal in her life. As the daughter of a famous underground rapper, Bri has big shoes to fill. On the Come Up is about 16-year-old Brianna Jackson or simply Bri, who wants to become one of the greatest rappers of all time, or at least get out of her neighborhood. Luckily, that novel On the Come Up is just as good as The Hate U Give despite being two different books. As such, I would imagine its author Angie Thomas thinking long and hard about her follow up. Since The Hate U Give was published in 2017, it has received so much praise that I’m convinced that it’s already a modern classic and that it will wind up being required reading for some high schools in the future.
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