Gender Differences In Hillary Kimble's Stargirl

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“And then in Earth Sciences I heard a name:’Stargirl.’ I turned to the senior slouching behind me.’Stargirl?’ I said. ‘What kind of name is that?’” At the beginning of the novel, everyone was questioning, what kind of name is that. Stargirl is the new kid in Mica High School and she is a little bit different. Stargirl would sing happy birthday at lunch with her ukulele and a pet rat on her shoulder. Other people started to like her then started the shunning and the mean girl Hillary Kimble started it, but Stargirl does not care, but her boyfriend dose. Many of the characters struggled to realize that everybody is different in their own way.

Difference is what Stargirl is throughout the novel Stargirl. At the beginning, Stargirl was sitting at lunch alone and it states “As before, when she finished eating, she took up her ukulele. But this time she didn’t play. She got up and started walking among the tables. She stared at us…Happy Birthday dear Alan Fer-kooooh.” This shows that she is different from the rest of the students. Also when Stargirl was at a basketball game and she was a cheerleader and it says that “...the other team scores, the MAHS crowd sits glumly on their hands while Stargirl, alone, pops up cheering. At first the other cheerleaders tried to suppress her;” This shows that Stargirl is happy for others while other people are sad. The quotes from Stargirl explains that everyone is different in their own way.
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Some examples of differing is when Stargirl sang happy-birthday to people at lunch and everyone stared at her. After reading that part and finding out more about her, she is different and so is everyone else in school. In life you will find people that stick out of all the

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