Sunday, February 12, 2012

I neee help wriitiin a response tah litureature for STARGIRL by jerry spennelli?

can yew plz help meeh by lookin for ino or writing it

I neee help wriitiin a response tah litureature for STARGIRL by jerry spennelli?
Fix your spelling. Then people will take you seriously and maybe even help you.
Reply:What about it would you like to know, and what do you need to write about? The story centers on a very odd new student at Mica Area High School in Arizona: Stargirl Caraway, an eccentric and compassionate vegan who has spent her previous years in homeschooling. Eleventh-grader Leo Borlock narrates. Between the story and the epilogue, the narrator implies that twenty years have elapsed, and the references imply that the novel is set in the 1980s.

As the story opens, Stargirl sets the school, which up until that point had nothing unusual about it, into uproar. She wears kimonos, Indian buckskin, 1920's flapper dresses and pioneer dresses to school. During every class period she puts a table cloth and a vase with daisies in it on her desk. She strums a ukulele during lunch and sings Happy Birthday to kids who have never met her. One word hangs over the student body: Huh?

Baffled by the new girl, Leo and his friend Kevin seek out the advice of Mica's local retired paleontologist, A.H. (Archibald Hapwood) Brubaker. Archie, as he commands the children of the town to call him, is a retired college professor who never gave up teaching, despite not being certified to teach in Arizona. Students come to his house every weekend for meetings of the "Loyal Order of the Stone Bone". The boys ask Archie about Stargirl's name. It had been revealed to them that her real name is Susan Caraway. When she had first turned up at Archie's house she had been called Pocket Mouse, then Mudpie, then Hullygully and finally Stargirl. She seems to change the name according to her likes and dislikes.

Stargirl is very charitable and often brings Leo to the mall. She drops off change everywhere just to make people happy. She often plays a game with Leo about cards. They follow any person they see in the mall around for 15 minutes and they try to figure out what kind of card they might give to that person. She reveals a secret desire to become a silver lunch truck driver — yet another way of pleasing people.

Stargirl's enthusiasm for life infuses itself into the students of MAHS. One boy comes to school with purple hair, flowers appeared in classrooms and one day when it rained, a dozen girls ran outside to dance. When Stargirl starts showing up at the school's football games, so do the rest of the students. She's finally made an official cheerleader at the end of the football season and never stops cheering. She cheers for everyone; the spectators out of the cheerleader's usual area, the parents at the hot dog stand, even the opposing team. This last causes almost the entire student body, save Leo and another pupil called Dori, to shun her.

Leo eventually becomes Stargirl's paramour, as well as her partner in her attempts to make everyone happy. However, he is still unsettled by her ways and suggests that the student body shuns her because of them.

Two days later, Stargirl disappears. Susan Caraway is there in her place; A jean-wearing, toenail-painting, gum-chewing, average teenager. Stargirl gave up her idiosyncrasies, it seems, in the hope that the other students might accept her again. But as the weeks go by, and she saw that not even being normal made the other students like her, she finally gives up and reverts back to Stargirl. Leo retains his affection for her, but does not display it.

At the local promenade dance, Stargirl leads most of the school in a bunny-hop train, while Leo looks on. One of the students, a most popular girl named Hillari, responds with violence. Stargirl responds with a kiss and leaves, never to return. She has left her mark, however. For example, Leo has become less egocentric and more introspective; the school band now features ukuleles; and the people at school are more inclined to be like themselves. Archie believes that Stargirl has a quality of being closer to the original nature of the Universe than her peers. As the years go by, Leo keeps watch for Stargirl's silver lunch truck.

Themes in this novel include bullying and its effects, fitting in, being yourself, not caring what other people think, and doing what you think is right even if it might be unpopular.
Reply:I didn't understand half of what you wrote there because of spelling errors..but I'm assuiming you want a responce for the book Stargirl. That is a really good book with a lot of deep ideas like nonconformity and the power of love (sappy i know)...i think you should be able to think of a responce. If you copy off anyones on this website then that is plagarism and it is illegal. You can get fined lots of money. Don't ask people to do the work for you because you won't learn anything.
Reply:Sorry :( I'm not sure what you are asking. Many of my friends from other countries have problems with English, it is a difficult language to learn.



I am familiar with the book Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

You are spelling the author's name incorrectly.

Perhaps if you google it with the correct spelling you will find the information you are looking for.



Good luck
Reply:I luv tht book!!!


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