I believe that this quote implies that Stargirl’s spirit was hard to grasp/understand. In this ordinary, homogenous school, no one wants to stand out. When Stargirl does just that, people just couldn’t understand why, and found that concept hard to grasp. As it says in the quote, “[The school] didn’t know what to make of her,” because she was so different. Since the author uses the word ‘elusive’, it shows us that the school doesn’t necessarily want to contain her, they want to catch her. The simile that that the author uses (“[The students] tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew,”) shows us the school’s struggle. They want to take her and learn her motives and understand how she
