by: Chienalee Garcia
Sixteen-year old Leo Borlock is contented with conforming to the crowd and follows the unspoken rule at Mica Area High School: don’t stand out. Everyone’s compliance is then challenged when Stargirl—the epitome of everything that the entire student body isn’t—burst straight out of fifteen years of home schooling to enchant the entire high school.
Stargirl captivates the student populace with her penchant for eccentricity as the character Leo vividly narrates. With her long frilly dresses and retro hippie clothing, she prances around school singing “Happy Birthday” to every student while strumming on her ukulele with her pet rat Cinnamon on her shoulders. She made every kind of card, sent flowers and gifts to the sick and lonely—she was simply amazing. Students could not make sense of what she was but it made no difference. Susan “Stargirl” Caraway’s oddity was the ray of sunshine to their otherwise gloomy, conventional high school life.
With her immense popularity, every kid in Mica High wanted to be like her. So much like her that even all the pet shops in town ran out of rats. Her reputation and free spirit landed her a spot in the cheerleading team, getting accepted for her being different. In fact, Stargirl was too avant-garde that during one basketball game, she cheered for the opposing team.
Tables turned and the entire high school’s opinion about her changed. But not Leo’s.
In the middle of all this, Leo finds himself falling in love with Stargirl. And he’s stuck in the middle of the rut, between vying for her attention and the rest of the student populace’ approval. In an attempt to remedy the situation, Leo asks Stargirl to change, and she becomes the plain old Susan, no different from everyone else. However, Leo realizes that Stargirl is better than Susan, yet her nonconformity ashamed him endlessly to the point that he didn’t take her to the Ocotillo Ball, where she disappears forever.
Spinelli definitely captures the high school setting, mostly heightened by factors of popularity and conformity for ‘survival’. The titular character’s diversity clearly states the moral that one must do what he or she wants, and not to care about others’ perception of you. He certainly gave justice to being different; that if everyone was the same, it would be boring. Stargirl represents what every other person must possess—individuality.
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