Imagine being left alone or ignored. People think you're invisible, that you don't exist. Or maybe you were once popular, but something happened that changed your life. No one cares about you, except for a few people. Hollis from Pictures of Hollis Woods and Stargirl from Stargirl have very similar lives, miserable for the most part.
Stargirl and Hollis are very similar characters. For example, they both feel very left out at times. Hollis, who was abandoned when she was very young, is now an orphan. She as been given many foster parents but never feels like she could really fit in. Stargirl, who was a new girl at her school, was ignored by just about everyone because she was different and "not normal," and they both had almost no friends.
Sometimes neither of them think clearly about what they do. Stargirl changes her whole personality just because of something one person says, and Hollis has run away from all the many foster families she has stayed with, but she didn't realize that she couldn't survive on her own.
Speaking of running away, Stargirl does exactly that at the end of the book, while Hollis lives happily with someone she actually feels comfortable with. No one except Stargirl knows why Stargirl ran away. Maybe it was because others were teasing her, or maybe it was her own free will. Hollis finally makes up her mind to stay with a foster family, so she is comfortable at the end of her book.
Hollis is also different in another way: She is a more static character, while Stargirl is a very dynamic character. Hollis has the same personality throughout the book, while Stargirl is constantly changing her personality by re-doing herself. But even though they both have different lives, they are very similar characters.
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