"Porcupine Necktie" is the phrase
that we first
see in this story. It looks like a chapter title: centered, bold, in all
caps,
printed halfway down the page with just the blank space above
it.
The phrase
"porcupine necktie" is a reference to the
funny accessory that the narrator is given
by his uncle, as well as the
second silly item given to him as an anonymous gift. (We'll figure
out later
that it waswho sent the second porcupine necktie!)
However,
after
this brief section, there's a new chapter labeled "1." So we can
understand that
the porcupine necktie section was actually the
, or the little bit
that comes before the main story, telling
us something that happens that will probably become
important
later.
Chapters 1 through 33 are simply labeled
with
those numbers. They don't actually have titles, like some book
chapters
do.
Finally, the book closes with
a section labeled "More
Than Stars." Again, it's in all capital letters, bold
and everything. This time, since we
already noticed that the prologue had the
same kind of label, we can understand more quickly
that "More
Than Stars" is the : the final, extra bit to
the story that
tells a little bit more about how things ended up. "More than stars" is
a
reference to the bigger impact that Stargirl made on the narrator, which he describes
here,
looking back on the whole story as an adult. And he also receives
another anonymous porcupine
necktie gift!
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