The movie’s protagonist, Starr is a sixteen-year-old black teenager. Starr lives in the primarily black, lower-class neighborhood of Garden Heights but attends Williamson Prep, a wealthy, predominantly white school in another town. Starr constantly feels pulled between two versions of herself -Williamson Starr and Garden Heights Starr- and changes her speech patterns and her personality traits out of fear that her classmates will think she is “ghetto.”
Throughout the movie, Starr grows from an uncertain teenage girl to an outspoken activist for change in her community. Starr’s relatable narrative style contrasts with her hesitation to speak out at the start of the movie. Because Starr feels torn between her two worlds: the poverty and violence of Garden Heights and the wealth and respectability of Williamson Prep; she is unsure how to speak about Khalil’s death, fearing the story will affect how her white friends and boyfriend, Chris, view her.
Khalil’s death disrupts any semblance of equilibrium Starr has created between her Garden Heights and Williamson Prep identities, and forces Starr to realize that no matter what she does, she will always be judged within white spaces.
With this realization, Starr stops silently tolerating racist comments from Hailey, allows Chris into her Garden Heights life, and ultimately testifies before the grand jury on Khalil’s behalf, becoming a voice of justice for those subjected to police brutality.
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