Writing About Writing

Stargirl is a unique girl who has come to this school to stir the pot, just a little bit. She is unique, and is something they've never seen before. In the text, her entrance is described as rain, the school as a dry pond, and the students are described as mud frogs. "inches below your feet, frogs are sleeping, their heartbeats down to once or twice per minute. They lie dormant and waiting, these mud frogs, for without water their lives are incomplete, they are not fully themselves". Her presence was like "a rebellion", and it brought them back to life. The smiled, looked, and nodded at eachother. They all started to feel empathy for each other. The idea of using mud frogs just helps to illustrate the mood of the story even better. It's set in a town surrounded by desert, and the students are dismal and waiting for a stimulus. Stargirl was their rain.

Stargirl was the most popular girl in school, and yet she was the least at the same time. No one wanted to be like her, but everyone was impressed. I think that if I had a girl like that at my school, everyone would just label her weird, and ignore her. I have to wonder if the school itself just needed that push, out of it's rooted path. I've always tried my best to be unique, but I could never get to the point of ignoring what other's thought of me. I think, in a way, every person, everywhere, needs to concentrate on it. I don't think Erin S. could have put it better than when she said "We are not meant to fit molds, we are meant to break them and create our own". Maybe all we need, is that extra push to cross our own boundary line and awaken from our dry pond.