Stargirl Research Paper

People try to hard to be popular in Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. Stargirl becomes Susan to try to be popular, but it did not work. The most important lesson that we learned from Stargirl is that popularity does not matter, no matter how much you are hated.

Stargirl is the gossip topic because she doesn’t try to fit in. Examples are how she would make a “home” of her desk, brings a daisy every week and sings and plays her ukulele in the middle of lunch.

For Stargirl, it let her true identity shine through. Another direct quote from the book that justifies the theme is "One morning we had a rare rainfall. It came during her gym class. The teacher told everyone to come in. On the way to the next class they looked out the windows. Stargirl was still outside. In the rain. Dancing" (Spinelli, page 11). This quote supports the theme because to Stargirl, this was a very typical thing for her to do. A final quote from the book that justifies the theme is "Star people are rare. You will be lucky to meet another" (Spinelli, page 177). This quote supports the theme because it describes what Stargirl's true identity is. Stargirl identifies as a 'star person'. I would recommend this text to a friend for three specific reasons. First, I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys fiction, young adult literature, and children's literature. Second, I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys Jerry Spinelli's work. Third, I would recommend this book to anyone who is an avid reader, like myself, looking for an excellent book. I believe the overall message of this book is "Be unique". This message fits the theme of "Search for Identity", because Stargirl found

Throughout the novel Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, several topics across the novel contribute to the overall theme. From identity, conformity to bullying, the topics of Stargirl cover everything under the Mica sun. Conformity is touched after everyone in Mica Area High School is described as conformists, blending into one another. Identity is challenged by Stargirl as she breaks away from conformity. Bullying makes its debut after the kids at MAHS reject Stargirls quirky ways. Overall, the Stargirl novel puts a fresh take on the underlining theme most people aren’t true to themselves unless they are confident.

The theme of Stargirl is to always be yourself, it’s the best person there is for you. It tells you to be a Stargirl, be different don’t follow the crowd. People will like you for you and if they don’t then it`s their loss. It teaches you valuable lessons, like to never let people come in the way if you really love someone. To just push them aside and let you make the choice, what`s more important my peers or someone that I love? They give many examples of this in the book, here are some….. ~`` We did not know what to do make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and she flew away.`` - pg. 15 This piece of figurative language is saying they tried to change her, or put her into place. But when they tried, she barely changed and striated from the crowd. ~It was during one of these night moon times that it came to me that Hillari Kimble was wring. Stargirl was real.``-pg.12 This is saying that he thought about Stargirl and she was just really being herself, and she was different but it was ok. ~``. The lie dormant and waiting, these mud frogs, for without water their lives are incomplete, they are not fully themselves. For many months the sleeps like this within the earth. And then the rain comes. And a hundred pairs o eyes pop out of the mud, and at night a

As I transitioned from elementary school to middle school, I have always heard about everyone trying to fit in. For me, I too have experienced trying to fit in. While others tried to fit in by buying the trendiest clothes, listening to the latest music or playing the newest games, I thought I could fit in by just going along with everything people said. However, because of this, in the long run, I began to lose myself.

Sarah Breedlove which name she was born into on 12/23/1867 in Delta Louisiana on a cotton plantation.Sarah Breedlove parents name was Minerva and Owen Breedlove.Sarah Breedlove had 5 siblings.In all 6 kids Owen and Minerva had,Sarah Breedlove was the first one to be born-free.Sarah Breedlove was born-free because she was born around the war of 1812.

     Leo had a bad feeling about putting Stargirl on “Hot Seat” because he was afraid that something was going to happen, like the jury will ask a bad question, or  that she was going to be known for not cheering for her own team.

Water is political. It nourishes us, connects us, and separates us. Water is especially political in Canada: almost nine percent of Canada is covered by fresh water, annually Canada’s rivers discharge seven percent of the world’s renewable water supply, and Canada holds 25 percent of the world’s wetlands.[1] But we forget the power of water sometimes when stories about water become stirred into other stories, especially about Indigenous women’s bodies. The mingling of stories about water and about Indigenous women seems obvious. Indigenous women in Canada have long had special connections to water. In the Haudenosaunee tradition, Sky Woman built the world as we know it out of a primordial sea on the back of a turtle. Four women (three of them

Spinelli explicates in Stargirl, even the most influential people, who fire up the conformity don’t really have their own identity. This is because they are

Stargirl could not survive in our high school. Stargirl would never make it because she would get made fun of everyday. She also made her own pledge. So i don't think that she would make it in our high school.

If only I could be a shadow as beautiful as you Lady Universe, you are brighter than a burning supernova. Existing only part of a whole, but evermore a whole of every part in this infinite conundrum of existence, Lady Universe echoed in every piece of existence, you are every young life and every ancient exploding star infinitesimally mirroring through our existence. Infinite and everlasting you as your sisters echo through eternity.

Once there was a superhero. The superhero’s name was Little Miss Supergirl. She was born as a superhero. Little Miss Supergirl lives in North America to fight for them and to save the Americans. Her real name was Baylee. She was 11 years old, and attended school daily like a normal child would do. No one knows that Little Miss Supergirl has all these powers. She has learned to keep things a secret and to not trust anyone. Her motto is “Be Your Own Hero”. Baylee only does easy missions. She was told to let the police handle the big crimes by our very own mayor. But Baylee did not like the easy missions,she wanted the hard ones. One day an old man was painting his roof. He got up there with his ladder but then his ladder fell down. So he was

If you’ve ever wondered what a dying star looks like right when it’s about to bite the dust, wonder no more: NASA has just released an image taken by its Hubble Space Telescope which reveals the bright star known as Herschel 36 in its final death throes, a process that the agency says generally takes tens of thousands of years.

I think that Leo shows courage because he hangs out with Stargirl through the school, while everyone is shunning both of them. Of what Leo did I thought he was brave because I wouldn’t of done that but he did kinda care of what they thought. But still he stayed with Stargirl, even though it would’ve risked people not talking to him anymore. I know this because in the text it said,”We touched little fingers and walked on. Her next class was on the first floor, so we went down the nearest stairway. We were walking side by side. That’s when I noticed. No one spoke to us. No one nodded to us. No one smiled at us. No one looked at us. A crowded stairway, and no shoulder, no sleeve brushed us.”