Stargirl | Jerry Spinelli

Summary: Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli is a short story where a boy and girl talk about "giving" and a descriptive life of two kids is presented to the audience

Characters:

Leo - The Girls Friend

Girl - Leo's friend

Section 1:

Leo tells the girl that he wants to be a director for television
The girl tells Leo that she wants to be a "silver-lunch-truck driver" and describes the sites and sounds of working with lunch trucks in wich the girl says she will have a fleet
The girl buys a potted plant and tells Leo that it was for someone "back home" at "Marion Drive" who knew someone that was going to have surgery and was in the hospital
Leo asks the girl how she knew and she said that she had her ways of finding out such information
As the girl was putting a ribbon on the plant, Leo asked why she didn't leave a card with her name on it
The girl asks why she should do it and Leo says that it's expected and guesses that it is important to let someone know
Leo slams on the brakes of his bike and comes to the realization that a tie that was a gift, "a mystery", was given to him by the girl who was his friend
The girl tells Leo that her mother made the tie for him and didn't dwell on the "subject"
They both started talking about "getting credit" again and Leo said that it was nice to get credit while the girl asked if it was nice to get credit; girl:"'Is it?', she said"

Other Notes:

Expressed in the story is the task of doing something nice for the sake of doing it and not necessarily for getting credit
It seems that the narrator did things the "normal" way, while the girl thought of doing nice things in a different kind of way especially since she didn't care if she got any type of credit for doing any of the nice things she did