What Does Julian Is Being Mean To August

And boy will I tell you Julian deserved it. With all the stuff Julian puts Auggie through Julian deserved worse. On page 267 Amos stood up for Auggie by saying, “ Leave him alone dude.” It was really strange for Amos to do this since he was on Julian’s side for awhile.

Julian's chapter is really surprising if you read the first book. It's no spoiler that in the first book, “Wonder”, Julian doesn't like Auggie too much, he portrays a bully. He put mean notes in his locker, he made a game called the pledge, so if you touch Auggie or anything he touched you would have the pledge. Julian also turned everyone against Auggie, you can tell he was a mean kid to Auggie. When Julian got his class picture he made sure that his picture to not have Auggie in it. In his chapter he says, “I hope you’re planning on burning that” to his mom and he meant it. You would not believe what he really thinks of Auggie though, you'll just have to read his chapter to find out.

Not only is August caring and a good mentor, but she is also very accepting of Lily for who she is. Since the beginning of the book, August has always been an inviting and accepting character. August meet Lily when she showed up at her house, instead of turning her away August allow Lily to stay with them. “Well, you can stay here till you figure out what to do. We can’t have you living on the side of the road.”( Kidd ) August was just told that Lily and Rosaleen had run away from home. August welcomes them into her home and allows them to stay with her. As the book goes on many lies about Lily’s past are told. August knows that Lily is lying but never presses. When it finally comes time for the truth to be told, August never yelled, she just listened. When Lily is telling August about all of the lies she

August is a strong role model for Lily because she uses appropriate language for and around Lily. When Lily is feeling unlovable and is explaining to August how her mother passes, August tells Lily how she is loved by saying comforting words like these: “But you’re not unlovable [...] you are still the most dear, most lovable girl I know.” (Kidd 242). This quote reveals that August wants Lily to know that she can be loved and that August is putting the impression on Lily that she deserves to be talked to better than the way T.Ray talks to her. This makes Lily so

The second August sees Lily, she knows that she is the daughter of Deborah Owens, who August used to raise and work in her home as a child. Lily opens up to August, and tells her the story of how she accidently killed her mother. Lily goes on to explain why she is unlovable but August reassures her that her mother’s death is a “terrible thing…to live with. But [she is] not unlovable. Even if [she] did accidently kill her, [she is] still the most dear, most lovable girl”(242) that August knows. August understands Lily is going through a lot with the death of her mother, and from running away from home. August makes sure that Lily knows she is not unlovable because in fact everyone around her loves her. More support from August comes when Lily and August have a conversation about Lily’s mom. Lily is very upset with how the conversation went so “August was giving [Lily] time for now, time to be by the river and [to] do what [she] had to do”(279). August understands Lily needs time and space to grieve, just like she did when May passed away. She gives Lily the time and space because she knows what she is going through, with all the emotions and feeling of blame. The final act of

get the truth out of her and Lily still hasn't yet fully understood why August has to introducing her to

The passage also alludes to Julian’s mother being a child, or a ten year old, which may have been the age when she knew Caroline, her “darky” nurse. At the end of the story, she calls out for Caroline, probably because Caroline was the one who would have helped her when she was a child and in trouble, but it is poignant that she is described as being young, and in the last seconds of her life, she reverts back to the childhood that she still resembles, even after all her years and troubles. The passage also says that if

Kathleen Feeley wrote that "eventually the mother's 'culture of the heart' fails because it is unreal" , and her inability to advise Julian clearly is indicative of this. Julian does not like his mother. To him, she is an embarrassment, a burden, and backward. He has learned to identify racism, and has learned to argue against it, However, when his mother is the perpetrator, the issue becomes wrapped around the hostility he feels for her. For example, he resents her methods of motherhood, or perhaps her headstrong commitment to her unwitting ignorance. Most likely, when taking the issue into account, he feels the most anger towards her for raising him as a racist, and now, despite an education that presumes the opposite, he finds that he remains racist. Instead of addressing these problems, he seeks to belittle her, When the large Negro woman first enters the story, he immediately wished that she sit beside his mother, in order to disturb her. Yet "to his annoyance, she squeezed herself into [the seat next to his]". His lack of insight regarding their relationship is revealed when he has fantasies of presenting his mother with a Black acquaintance: either a business associate, a lover, or even the doctor whom he could hire to heal her. When he asks the man with the newspaper for a light (with neither cigarettes nor the desire to smoke), he embarrasses himself solely to confound her. He remains racist not

His lack of insight regarding their relationship is revealed when he fantasizes himself presenting his mother with a black acquaitance: either a business associate, a lover or even the doctor he could hire to heal her. When he asks the man with the paper for a light (he has nothing to smoke), embarrassing himself solely to perplex her. He remains a racist not because it was instilled in him by his mother, but because he continues to exploit the black culture for the sole purpose of changing his mother. Julian's culture in his own mind fails because it does not touch his being.

That means when he was born, he came out with a deformed face. Therefore, that doesn't stop August the way he is, Auggie he is a hilarious joyful kid. August though has been dealing with many difficult times in his life. Even though kids at Beecher Prep change their minds about August, most of them bullied August because they judged his appearance, they were following

Tyreke often hears conversations between his aunt and the administrative staff at his school discussing his underperformance and altercations with other students. Tyreke has made it aware that this makes him feel worthless and afraid. He has discussed his feelings by stating, “I feel like I’m trapped in a hole I cannot get out of. It’s always one bad thing happening after the other. I try in school but don’t know why I cannot understand the work. I fight because other kids say I’m stupid and I will end up like my parents.” Tyreke continues to meet after school with teachers and is in the process of raising his grades in Biology, English, and Spanish. Although progression has been made academically, his behavior remains unacceptable to school administration. His recent suspension resulted in the principle to contact his aunt; informing her Tyreke will have to be expelled if he participates in another fight at school.

I don’t know why but this always freaked me out”(Palacio 211). Readers can sense that August is a nervous kid because he has been called some names that a super mean.

Julian this nice laid back college graduate. He went to school to become a writer, however at the moment he is unable to find any jobs that have to deal with writing so at the moment he is working a shop that sales typewriters. Julian at the beginning of the story is almost annoyed with is mother that he is being forced to go with her to her YMCA class to help her with losing weight, and that she can’t make up her mind on if she should wear her new hat or even keep it for that matter. Julian is also a loner he doesn’t like to be around or bothered with people “He visualized a place where the nearest neighbors would be three miles on either side” (PG1) throughout the whole story he seems to be in his own world. He likes to think about ways to get back at his mother by becoming friends with African people and bringing them home to stay over, thinking about if his mother was to become ill having an African Doctor take care of her or maybe bringing home an African woman and telling his mother that they are going to get married. Julian and his mother do not see eye to eye on the racial aspect in this story,

At lunch a girl named Summer sits with him and they become friends and sit with each other everyday. Auggie constantly gets teased and made fun of by Julian. Julian's mom even photoshopped Auggie out of the class of the class picture and Julian gave it to him. As the year goes on more people like Auggie for who he is and they stop focusing on his face so much. When auggie went on the nature retreat he got attacked by a bunch of big seventh graders but luckily he was with a

One way August is a good character to look up to is because he is mature about handling people who are rude. First, when people look at him, he ignores them and keeps going as normal. This shows that he doesn’t want to be sad about it and he doesn’t want to be mad. Next, when Jack-Will was talking about him, August didn’t tell Jack-Will that what he said hurt him. I think this shows that he didn’t want Jack-Will to feel horrible and he didn’t want to put himself down.