Galatea attended a high school that encouraged and emphasized creativity and the arts until her junior year. when her mother’s employer transfers her to another state, galatea and her father must also move. because there isn’t a special arts magnet in the new town, galatea is enrolled in the public high school. on her first day she dresses as she always has—an eclectic, funky style that is uniquely hers. the other students, who appear to galatea to be dressed in boringly similar styles, stare and laugh at her appearance, and by the end of the day galatea is uncomfortable. if she conforms to be accepted by her new schoolmates, galatea will have succumbed to what ?