And I have not been able to pick up another book because I don't want to lose the feeling of satisfaction that came from finishing it. It’s sweet, sincere, heart-warming, funny, and insightful, much like Stargirl herself.I just finished Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. It’s also a novel about friendships and community, the one that Stargirl makes for herself by taking a genuine interest in the people around her, and those things turn out to be more important than any romance threads. Again, it’s not a traditional love story, and I like the nuance and realism Spinelli brings to teen romance. I like how levelheaded she turns out to be about her relationship with Perry, and how she manages to separate the romance from her actual feelings. It’s very much a recovering-from-heartbreak novel, and even though a year has passed and Stargirl finds herself attracted to someone new, she’s nowhere near over Leo. Like its predecessor, there are a lot of themes packed into a deceptively simple novel. I don’t like Perry as a love interest, but I like him as a character, and I like the way that he slowly develops into a real, complicated person as Stargirl gets to know him. Dootsie occasionally feels a little forced to me, too much a character in a novel to be a real child, but most of the characters have that slightly exaggerated feel to them (in a good way? if that’s possible). From Betty Lou, afraid to leave her house and forced to be her own best entertainment, to Charlie, who sits every day at his wife’s grave to talk to her, I love meeting the sweet, quirky, interesting people in her life.
#THEMES IN LOVE STARGIRL PLUS#
Love, Stargirl expands on her universe and her wholesome relationship with her parents, plus all the people she meets in her daily life–and there are a lot. Stargirl is mostly about Leo and Stargirl, with a few side characters who play small roles in the novel’s events.
#THEMES IN LOVE STARGIRL HOW TO#
I love the way she’s able to look at ordinary things as though they’re magical, which makes them become magical, and how she’s always thinking of how to make the world around her a little better, the people in her life a little happier. Stargirl is more like an average teenage girl than Leo ever gives her credit for, with extra helpings of creativity and kindness–and it’s really that kindness that sets her so far apart from the average human, not the ukulele playing or the rat ownership or the costumes.
In Stargirl, we see things from Leo’s perspective, but Love, Stargirl gives voice to one of my favorite literary characters of all time. Thoughts: I love this book almost as much as the first and, in some ways, a little more. Trigger warnings: death of a spouse (off-page), grief, agoraphobia, some violence. Part breakup story, part love story, and all friendship story, Love, Stargirl is a unique look through the eyes of a girl who’s more different–and more like us–than we ever imagined. In it, she chronicles her adventures with her five-year-old best friend, Dootsie, their agoraphobic friend, Betty Lou, who hasn’t left her house in years, and the strange boy Stargirl sees around town who keeps stealing things. She’s returned to homeschooling after her disastrous first attempt at public high school, and she’s decided to write her ex-boyfriend, Leo, the World’s Longest Letter about her current life. A year after Stargirl vanishes from Mica Area High School, she and her family have settled comfortably into a small town in Pennsylvania. Let us ride our own orbits and trust they will meet.”Ībout: There are spoilers ahead for Stargirl. You be you and I’ll be me, today and today and today, and let’s trust the future to tomorrow.
Do not follow me! Let’s just be fabulously where we are and who we are. We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.
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