Individuality In Stargirl

We don't see many people in the world who express individuality. However, we see popularity and amount of followers we have on our Instagram to represent our reputation in the public. In the novel, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, we can see that individuality can still be expressed even if the whole school despises you. The main character, Stargirl, demonstrates how to be yourself and how it's better to be yourself than to become someone else.
Stargirl doesn’t care about what people thought about what she likes, like when she cheered for both teams in basketball. First, on page 66, it shows how the main antagonist, Hillari Kimble, flipped out on Stargirl saying that if she cheers for the other team, then she should get out of her school and a mob started against Stargirl. It also says in the novel, “[Stargirl] She said she felt sorry for the Red Rock players. She felt her cheering

Stargirl had something called a “happy wagon,” that whenever she was happy, she would add a stone, and if she was sad she would take one away. Before she changed to a different person, she had seventeen out of twenty stones in it. After she changed, she had two out of twenty stones inside. This shows that she was so sad so many times. Lastly it says on page 141 that she gave up eating anchovies anymore because “nobody” eats those. We can see that Stargirl probably enjoyed eating anchovies until she heard that no one eats it. Stargirl realizes that she will lose many things in her life if she tries to be someone else.
When reading Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli, it is instantly understood that you have control of not only being yourself, but being true to yourself. In the novel, Stargirl left a great legacy in MICA High School and all the people living around in general. So after reading Stargirl, we can understand that individuality and truthfulness to yourself is important to everyone around and most of all,