Months ago, Stargirl had won the
contest for Mica High
in front of an audience of cheering, supportive classmates. But when her name is announced as the district winner, she is met with boos. Leo, her only fan left at school, listens in rapture, or intense pleasure, as she speaks.
What was Stargirl’s final speech of the oratorical contest?
She ends with the words “
can you hear it?
” (28.21).
What happened when Stargirl returned from winning the oratorical contest?
What did Susan think would happen when she returned from the state contest?
She wins the state oratorical contest and returns to a hero’s welcome
. Everyone will be so happy, and she will be popular.
What does Stargirl challenge Leo do?
Leo and Stargirl go into a pizza parlor together and she shows him what she learns from the bulletin board. She then challenges Leo to
a game to test what he has learned and they observe a woman
.
Why did Stargirl get kicked off the team?
Kevin, in true best friend fashion, starts teasing Leo about Stargirl’s obvious crush on him. … In school that day, he hears rumors that Stargirl has been kicked off the cheerleading squad
for being a traitor
. Later on, after school, Leo decides to walk over to her house, which is two miles away.
Why did Leo stop following Stargirl?
Leo decides to follow Stargirl instead of just talk to her because he is
ridiculously shy
; he is afraid of her, the way she makes him feel, and the teasing he will get from his schoolmates if he does actually instigate a conversation with her.
How did the students honor Stargirl?
In fact, students from every clique in school begin to embrace her! As a result, students
“honored her by imitation”
(38). Suddenly, students bring ukuleles to school and play them in the cafeteria just like she does.
Why does Susan go back to being Stargirl?
Stargirl responds by saying, ‘Nothing. It was a good name. ‘ Then she explains that her name was originally Susan, but she changed it because she ‘didn’t feel like a Susan anymore’. ‘ She chose ‘Stargirl’ because it just came to her one night as she was walking through the desert looking at
the stars
.
Why was Dori mad at Stargirl?
Susan explains that Dori is mad at her
because she feels like Susan betrayed her true self when she got rid of Stargirl
: “She just doesn’t understand how important it is to be popular” (27.13). She does know that Dori will be at the front of the mob that welcomes her home, however.
Why is Dori Dilson upset Stargirl?
Susan tells Leo that Dori Dilson wouldn’t come because she’s mad at Stargirl for not acting like herself. Susan tells Leo that she wants him to hold the big silver plate that she expects to win when they return to school for the celebration that she thinks will await her.
What did Stargirl want Leo to do when they reached the enchanted place?
Stargirl instructed Leo
to remove his shoes and sit beside her
and told him that he was to do nothing. She said: ‘The earth is speaking to us, but we can’t hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then – maybe – the earth will touch us.
What did Stargirl want?
Stargirl wants to
be a silver lunch truck driver
. She wants to bring lunch to all the hardworking people out there. She will own a fleet of the lunch trucks and deliver food everywhere she can, astonishing people with the variety and quality of her food.
What did Stargirl bring out in Leo’s personality?
Leo is forever changed by his time with Stargirl. He
pays more attention to small details and doing simple things to be kind to people
. He remembers her when he does little things they used to do together, like drop spare change for people to find.
Why do the students trick Stargirl at the game?
Stargirl stays outside
, talking with the bus driver, for the remainder of the game. She says she felt bad for the Red Rock players and that ”cheering was only making the massacre worse. ” Angered by this, the basketball team and cheerleaders decide to play a trick on Stargirl.
What’s the summary of Stargirl?
After 15 years of home schooling, Stargirl
bursts into tenth grade in
an explosion of color and a clatter of ukulele music, enchanting the Mica student body. But the delicate scales of popularity suddenly shift, and Stargirl is shunned for everything that makes her different.
What does Stargirl do when she is finished with her lunch?
Sure enough, after Stargirl finishes her lunch,
she picks up her uke and starts strumming
. She walks over to Hillari’s table, sings the song and adds Hillari’s name to the end, but she does not look at Hillari when she sings it, so she didn’t fib the day before.
