“Looks like you have a new girlfriend,” said Stephanie. “Don’t let me catch you kissing any more girls.” “I’m a human bean.” She clamped Perry’s nose between her fingers and twisted hard.ĭootsie wagged her finger in his face. Zombie said, “But don’t you miss, like, the people? Other kids?” “It didn’t go as well as I had expected,” I said. I went to a regular high school last year.” She stuck her tongue out at Perry, then turned a friendlier face to me. Was there anyone Perry hadn’t blabbed to? Finally Dootsie snarled, “That’s e-nuff,” and pushed Zombie’s face away. Zombie somehow managed to take Alvina’s vacated seat while continuing to kiss Perry. Finally, while the kiss was still going on, she popped up and left. She pretended to be searching for someone in the restaurant. Alvina looked the other way, as if the chair beside her were empty. Dootsie folded her arms and glared at the smoochers. Suddenly Zombie leaned in to Perry and gave him a long kiss on the lips. There didn’t seem to be any animosity among them. She said something that came out: “Yuh yuh yuh yuh.”Īll the girls started laughing and swatting playfully at each other. Zombie snatched the slice from Ponytail, folded it, and stuffed the whole thing into her mouth. She grabbed the last slice and took a big bite. “Looks like I’m the only girl at the table who hasn’t fed Perry tonight,” I said. I wondered if he still believed she didn’t have a crush on him. She held it for a second, then let it go. This time Alvina held the piece out to Perry’s lips. Dootsie picked the piece from Perry’s lap and handed it back to Alvina. “Open,” she commanded Perry, and from a distance of one inch she tossed it into his mouth.Īlvina picked a pepperoni from her own slice and pitched. Look.” She grabbed Alvina’s little finger and displayed the fancy fingernail.ĭootsie reached across the table and plucked the last pepperoni disk from Stephanie’s slice. “Big girl.”ĭootsie piped, “She is a big girl. “Where are your parents?” I asked Alvina. “Congratulations on your honorable mention,” I said. “I want this one,” she said, and bit into it. “Yo,” he said, “take that one.” He pointed to the last piece on the platter. Perry had just picked up a slice of pizza and was about to chomp into it when Alvina snatched it from his hand. “Hello, Alvina,” I said, but she was focused only on Perry. The word “interesting” fluttered about my head.Ī blood-splattered hag appeared at the table. She grabbed him by the ears and swung his face to hers. “I told her you were interesting,” Perry said to me.ĭootsie wanted attention. It could not have been done so neatly without a lot of practice. He said you were weird.” She chuckled and picked a pepperoni disk from her slice and pitched it across the table. Perry said, “I didn’t say ‘fascinating.’” We need some fascinating people there.” She flung the word “fascinating” across the table at Perry, her eyes flaring for an instant. She wiped her fingertips on a napkin and jabbed her hand out to me. She pulled a string of cheese from her chin and fed it into her mouth. Her red hair was especially bright in the fluorescent light.
Perry looked past her ear and gave me a smile and turned to Stephanie. The desert also mirrors Stargirl's loneliness and isolation.Dootsie was jabbering in Perry’s face as I walked in. Everyone there is boring and bland like the desert that surrounds them. The setting, or location of Stargirl is a symbol of the people of Mica, the dry, desert town in southwest Arizona.
The first is Stargirl's struggle to either fit in or to be herself the second is Leo's choice to be with Stargirl or to have everyone else like him and the third is Hillari constantly opposing Stargirl.ĭesert. There are three major conflicts in Stargirl. At the end, he reveals that he has received a porcupine necktie in the mail one day before his most recent birthday-presumably from Stargirl.Ĭorrespondingly, what is the main conflict in Stargirl? No one in the town sees Stargirl again after that night, and Leo learns that she and her family have moved away. Also she doesn't think many people will come.įurthermore, what happens at the end of Stargirl? Stargirl returns Hillari's attack with a kind kiss on the cheek. The climax in Love, Stargirl is when Stargirl invites everyone she knows to a celebration of the Winter Solstice but she is afraid that the sun won't show that day because of the snow. In respect to this, what is the climax of love Stargirl? After that, Susan returns to her identity as Stargirl, and in her personal conflict between individuality and conformity, individuality wins. In Stargirl, the climax is the scene where Susan returns from winning the public speaking contest expecting a hero's welcome, and instead is greeted by only a handful of people.
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