So, why would any mother, no matter how dedicated she was to the idea that the past is immutable, send her (ill and dependent) son back to a time when she knows that she is going to shoot him? Does Faraday not die? Maybe not, but he looked awfully close to kicking the proverbial bucket.
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Go here to read a lovely story at Peter Sieruta’s Collecting Children’s Books about when Jerry Spinelli was a nobody, and how a couple of guys in New York City made him feel like Somebody. To tell one’s name – the livelong June – It reminds of one of my favorite poems by Emily Dickinson:ĭon’t tell! they’d advertise – you know! But it’s a lovely story and something to aspire to, by God’s grace. Which is finally what happens to Stargirl. They’d/We’d shun her and slap her and banish her. And if anyone did, They (which is Us) would not follow her in dancing the Bunny Hop. Spinelli all know that none of us lives up to Stargirl’s ability to completely live an authentic life and at the same time be so unaware of self as to focus wholly on the needs of others. Although he says his wife resembles Stargirl, you and I and Mr. Spinelli is whistling in the dark, and I contend that he knows that he is doing so. Spinelli says, “What does it say about us if we believe such a person to be impossible? The message of the story is precisely the opposite: such a person is possible, and to the extent that Stargirl is us. In an interview in the back of my book, Mr. Even her best friend deserts her, denies her, and fails to understand and support her mission. Everybody loves her, and then they “crucify” her because she won’t fit the mold. She’s Ann Kiemel, Corrie Ten Boom, and Mother Teresa, without the doubts and without the Holy Spirit to empower her. (She does lose her focus for a little while in the middle of the book, but only temporarily for the sake of Leo, her boyfriend and the narrator of the story.) Mostly, Stargirl is Jesus, too good to be true, not a saint, but something better, more human and yet more Other. She is a bit, (OK, a lot), fantastical, unbelievably ego-free and selfless. Spinelli may or may not have intended it, may or may not be a Christian, but I think Stargirl is a Christ-figure. Brown Bear Daughter read Stargirl last year and loved it. Spinelli published a sequel in 2007, Love, Stargirl.
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