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Conformity In Stargirl By Jerry Spinelli

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Schools are all about conformity. In many schools conformity rule the school. When an individual is ruling the school, people might want to conform to that person. In the book "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli is a very good example of conformity ruling the school. In the book "stargirl", Stargirl is a new student to Mica high school. Stargirl is a very unique, and different person. People thought she was strange and weird. Even students thought she was a plant. She was an individual. When she started to be popular due to cheerleading. Student dressed, carried a ukulele, and behaved like her. Stargirl started to cheer for the other teams, when the other team made a scoring point. The school started to lose games. Students blamed Stargirl for

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