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Stargirl

Stargirl. By: Jerry Spinelli. Mica, Arizona. Feel: Heat and sand blowing in your face See: Cacti, sand, wildlife, and towns Hear: Sand crunching as you step Smell: Cacti flowers. Theme.

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Stargirl

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  1. Stargirl By: Jerry Spinelli

  2. Mica, Arizona • Feel: Heat and sand blowing in your face • See: Cacti, sand, wildlife, and towns • Hear: Sand crunching as you step • Smell: Cacti flowers

  3. Theme • Be yourself: Don’t change because other people tell you to. This story incorporates this theme by making Stargirl unique.

  4. Stargirl Caraway • She is friendly all the time. She waves at people she doesn’t know, and she sings Happy Birthday to people. • She has sandy hair, freckles, and huge eyes. • Stargirl has a pet rat named Cinnamon. • She is unique. She doesn’t care what other people think about her. • She is generous and kind. She is nice to everyone. • Stargirl has a huge crush on Leo. • Stargirl changes her image in order to fit in at MAHS.

  5. Leo Borlock • He falls in love with Stargirl. • This story is told from his perspective. • He is the director of “Hot Seat”. • Leo is best friends with Kevin. • He often visits Archie Brubaker to get advice on Stargirl. • Leo convinces Stargirl to change her image and be normal. • He is part of the Loyal Order of the Stone Bone.

  6. Plot • Stargirl starts coming to Mica Area High school (MAHS) • Stargirl sends Leo a valentine’s card that says: I LOVE YOU. • Stargirl is being shunned because everyone blames her for losing the basketball game. • Leo goes to Stargirl’s house and confesses that he likes her too. • Leo starts getting shunned because he is always with Stargirl. • Stargirl changed her image in an effort to fit in. • When Stargirl gets back from winning the ‘talk off’ only Dori was there to congradulate her. • Stargirl changes her image back to normal. • Stargirl goes to the school dance alone and gets everybody but Hillari to loosen up and have fun. • Stargirl moves away.

  7. Literary techniques- Metaphors • Page 15: “She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flittering shadow of an elf owl.” • Page 85: “I was a yellow balloon, smiling and lazy, floating above the classrooms.”

  8. Literary Techniques-Similes • Page 138: “Seething like snakes under a porch.” • Page 152: “Like a butterfly, her words fluttered from image to image.” • Page 155: “The boys looked at them as if they were hand grenades.” • Page 157: “The silver plate they gave her twinkled like a starburst in a galaxy of flashing cameras.” • Page 167: “The moon rose into the sky like a lost balloon.”

  9. Literary Techniques-Personification, Alliteration, and Hyperbole • Page 49: “Honey hair and freckles flying.” (alliteration and personification) • Page 87: “She laughed and the desert sang.” (personification) • Page 91: “The stars will whisper.” (personification) • Page 124: “I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.” (hyperbole)

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