Overall Brown Girl Dreaming wasn't the most interesting book I've ever read but it was a nice change. I enjoyed the change because this is based off of a true story, not some made up fiction love or high school story we've been reading. The end of the book talks about how Jacqueline becomes a writer through experiences with her family and other organizations in her life such as the Black Panthers. There really is not a brilliant climax in the story mostly because it is a true life story about her whole life and one major climax in someones life is unlikely. It was the build up of all the experiences she faced that created the suspense and climax for the story. Jacqueline seems to be able to tie her experiences she had to the way she wrote her book. For example when her uncle got thrown in prison she would write poetry about what he was experiencing. I thought this was a creative way to connect the verse novel setting with a real life experience.
https://www.britannica.com/event/American-civil-rights-movement
http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-civil-rights.html
http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2014_ypl_woodson.html#.WKxpr7GZO9Y