In a bid to ruin Liz’s plans, she uploaded a poster, and a video on the school’s website, calling out Liz as queer and timid. Her friends were all the way supportive, and just when it seemed their efforts were making waves, Rachel tried to ruin it. Yet, Liz was not deterred by this, as the only way to get into Pennington College was contesting for prom queen. She was someone Liz had been avoiding because she was a big racist. Rachel was among the privileged, popular white girls in school who was equally a front-runner for prom queen. One of them was the white Rachel, a racist. She had to start talking to some of the people she had been avoiding her whole life. To stand a chance to win the prom, Liz needed to be popular. Of course, if she did, she would risk having them sell their house to sponsor her. Also, she didn’t want to involve her poor grandparents in her fantasy. To Liz, this was the most plausible option despite that she wasn’t comfortable with acquiring social visibility. The winner of the event will win about $10,000. One day, Liz’s brother suggested that she should participate in the school prom as a means of getting enough money for her to attend her dream college. Although she played clarinet in high school and engaged in extracurricular activities, that was not enough to get her the needed sponsorship to attend her dream college. With the turn of events, Liz found out she may not be able to get out of their small town and attend Uberelite Pennington College, her dream school. But when she finally became a senior, she discovered she could not keep up with that. She then began to wear less attractive clothes and styled her hair differently. But when Jordan chose his new football friends over her on the first day of high school, Liz felt humiliated.

Jordan has been her friend for a long time, and attending the same high school gave Liz a sense of belonging and confidence. Things took a really different turn after she was snubbed by her childhood best friend, Jordan Jennings, on their very first day at high school.

Though she had a few people who loved and cared for her, with the inclusion of her family, Liz still felt different. All she had was her elder brother, whom she lived with at Campbell in her grandparent’s house, and a few other friends. She was familiar with the neighborhood, and that made it worse. Having grown up in the small town of Campbell, a community where most people knew themselves. If it was just about being black and obviously different, Liz would have been able to cope with that, but that was not all. This made it more difficult for her to blend with other rich white students in her school. Being tall, black, and different was not something exciting to be.

You should see me in a crown is a story of a girl, Liz Lighty, who has always believed she’s too weird, too black, too different, too poor to make it in her small, rich prom-obsessed town in the mid-west.

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