So much happened in this book and I wish I could be as free spirited as Stargirl. Spinelle wrote a beautiful captivating story which exposes the difficulties of being a teenager.
She broke all the norms of society but I admire her for that. If people do not understand you and what you do, you cannot be appreciated or noticeable. Popularity doesn't mean being more predominant than everyone else, nor does it mean everyone having to like you, popularity is to be understood by a majority. But to be honest, I didn't understand what it meant to be popular either. There were occasions on which I couldn't stand Leo and literally wanted to slap him when he said "she doesn't understand how important it is to be popular". What if being true to yourself means being shunned where no one wants to apreciate your true self? Changing yourself makes no impact on others, so the moral is: stay true to yourself. It is very conflicting and toys with my morals about popularity and being true to yourself.
It gave us an insight into every teenager's mind trying to figure out whether different is good and put the reader in a compromising position because although you don't want to conform, it feels like you do. Why I loved the book: Jerry Spinelle's writing was excellent and creative and innovative. And I did not appreciate the abrupt ending. Though it was a short quick book to read I constantly got stuck on a chapter, unable to stay focused because the story just didn't interested me. It wasn't confusing, in fact it was very basic but the social boundaries Stargirl and Leo crossed were what made me want to shut the book and leave it at that. It is supposed to be a must read for teens, an inspiration.īut this is why I hated it: The whole way through reading the book I was like 'what?'. I have a love/hate relationship with this book.
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