Stargirl (Chapters 15-20)

How does the speaker of this quote compare to the mud frogs that we read about earlier in the book (extended metaphor--and remember to identify the speaker in your answer...that is part of your score) : "She taught me to revel. She taught me to wonder. She taught me to laugh. My sense of humor had always measured up to everyone else's; but timid, introverted me, I showed it sparingly: I was a smiler. In her presence I threw back my head and laughed out loud for the first time in my life" (Spinelli, 107). Use cited evidence from the text to support your explanation.