#In love stargirl is leo a antagonist how to#

It is said that the book is also about his dilemma, moral courage and the question for whom he should decide - his friends or his love for Stargirl 39. But also Leo BorlockРІР‚в„ўs situation is a topic. Stargirl is also described as РІР‚Сљa wonderful commentary on the beauty and dignity of humanity, as well as the difficulty in being unique in a society of joinersРІР‚Сњ 38. They do not understand how a person who has no friends can be the friendliest person in school, how it is possible that she knows nothing about football, that she does not wear make-up, that she sings and dances for no reason 29. The other students are afraid because they do not know what to make of her 28. Stargirl is an Outsider because she is an individual at a high school where conformity is usual. 3.3 Stargirl Caraway - Reasons for being an Outsider This appearance shows that Stargirl is self-confident, that she is better off when she can be herself and when she does not have to be like everybody else.

The other studentsРІР‚в„ў comments are РІР‚Сљbeautiful, unusual, interesting, different, regalРІР‚Сњ 27, but this time they mean it in a good way.

She РІР‚Сљarrive in a bicycle sidecarРІР‚Сњ 25 covered in flowers and her hair and dress look incredible 26. She knows that Leo would not want her after she has become Stargirl again and so she does not ask him to go to the Ocotillo Ball with her. Because of that she gives up trying to be like everybody else and becomes herself again 24. But when they arrive none is there except some teachers and her only friend Dori Dilson 23. When she comes back from an Oratorical Contest which she won she is sure that the whole school would welcome her with a parade and cheers and greetings she has already practiced her smile on the way back. The only result is that she becomes sad and disappointed because she expected it to work, to be popular, to be like Leo wants her to be. So she tries to be like the rest of them but fails because the other students have already given her up. To him it is simple, he says that РІР‚Сљthe point is, in a group everybody acts pretty much the same, thatРІР‚в„ўs kind of how the group holds itself togetherРІР‚Сњ 22.

#In love stargirl is leo a antagonist how to#

But Leo convinces her and teaches her how to behave 21. When the other students ask her why she changed it she says that she did not feel like a SusanР”Тђ Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl, (2000), p.7 ffР”В§ Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl, (2000), p.36 ffР”РЃ Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl, (2000), p.119 ffР”Р‡ootball team for example, is not something bad to her 20. The first thing that is different about her is her name she has given herself: Stargirl. Up to 10 th grade she was homeschooled but then she becomes a student at MAHS. Stargirls real name is Susan Julia Caraway and she lives in an ordinary house with her parents who are ordinary people 8. When Stargirl finds out that being normal does not change her being shunned she decides to remain true to herself and to leave Mica Area. Only Leo, who falls in love with her, tries to stay behind her but fails and convinces her that she should better be like everybody else. Nevertheless, she remains different and when she starts cheering for the opposing football team the studentsРІР‚в„ў sympathy for her turns into hostility. But after a while the students at Mica High, except Hillari Kimble and Wayne Parr, start to like her and try to be around her 7. They get that impression because Stargirl greets strangers, РІР‚Сљlaughs when there are no jokes and dances when there is no musicРІР‚Сњ 6. The studentsРІР‚в„ў first impression is that she must be an alien, that she could be a spy and that she is not real 5. She also has a pet rat named Cinnamon which she carries around in her bag. The story is told by Leo Borlock who is the I person narrator and who is, like everybody else, fascinated by Stargirl 3 because she is so different: her style is extraordinary, she carries РІР‚Сљa large canvas bag with a life-size sunflower painted on itРІР‚Сњ 4 and she has an ukulele which she plays in the cafeteria. Jerry SpinelliРІР‚в„ўs Stargirl is about a new student at Mica Area High School, Arizona who is different from all the other students.