One of the main real life issues that is presented in this book is how people judge and discriminate against people who are different from them. At the beginning of the book, Stargirl didn't care what people thought of her and ignored everything they said about her. "We didn't know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew" (Spinelli 15). This quote shows how no matter what everyone at MAHS tried to do, Stargirl just went on being herself. During the book at one point, Stargirl stops being herself and tries to be "normal" so people would talk to her. " 'Stargirl, you just can't do things the way you do. If you weren't stuck in a homeschool all your life, you'd understand. You can't just wake up in the morning and say you don't care what the rest of the world thinks" (Spinelli 136). She decided to become "normal" so she could be like the rest of the world. When she did that, she cared about what the rest of the world thought about her for just those couple days. She was so unhappy when she acted unlike herself to please everyone else. In the end of the book, Stargirl goes back to being herself and she was so much happier and she really didn't care what other people thought about her.
When I read Stargirl, I really started to think about how much I cared about what people thought of me. I realized that I shouldn't care what people think about me, and I shouldn't change myself for other people. If I didn't try to be the "normal" that everyone says is normal and just acted like myself, I would be so much happier and I wouldn't care what people say about me. I really enjoyed reading Stargirl, it was a very interesting story and I would definitely read it again.
"Dare to be different."
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