Stargirl
...rity kids had been pulling chairs from other tables to squeeze around her. Now it was just Stargirl, Dori Dilson and a ninth grader.” Stargirl’s individuality had lead to unpopularity. “She was the flitting shadow of an elf owl; she was the faintest scent of a cactus flower.” This metaphor is used to describe Stargirl by Leo to explain his view of Stargirl when she first came to the school. Another key issue explored in the text Stargirl is social acceptance. Stargirl was never really accepted at her school. Sure, she was popular with the kids when she first came but after they realized how individual she really was they began to get sick of it. Even though everyone laughed and cheered with her, she never really fitted in, she was never socially accepted. “Why can’t you be so normal” “Yeah—is there something wrong with us you gotta be so different?” “Why don’t you wear make-up?” these are her peers using motive to accuse Stargirl for being different because they didn’t accept her for who she was. “We wanted to define her as we did each other but we could never really get past ‘weird’ ‘strange’ and ‘goofy’. Her ways always knocked us off balance.” No matter how hard they tried, the other kids could never really socially accept Stargirl. She was too ‘weird’ ‘strange’ and ‘goofy’ for the other kids and because of that they didn’t want to accept her. “Who’s affection do you value more, hers or theirs?” is a rhetorical question given to Leo about him and his friendship with Stargirl. Friendship is another main issue explored in Jerry Spinelli’s novel, Stargirl. Leo wanted so much to have a friendship with Stargirl but he couldn’t get past the way he was treated by his other peers to so that. He loved to be with Stargirl but he wanted the friendships of the other people in the school ...