Wonder By R. J. Palacio Character Analysis

Imagine being different. Trying to walk through the park with people glancing at you wherever you go, shuffling away from you wherever you walk. You understand why they avoid looking you in the eye or shaking your hand when they meet you. It is because you do not look ordinary. You like to imagine you are ordinary; you do ordinary things such as eat ice cream, play xbox and listen to music.

Near the end of the book Auggie feels accepted. On page 282 we find evidence of this when he says, “It was like I was one of them.” When he says “them” he is referring to the other students. Auggie could finally feel “normal” and it is necessary for August to feel this way because people have always seen Auggie as strange because of his face. At a point August even forgets he has Treacher Collins syndrome. On page 307 we find an example of this, “I wasn’t even thinking about my face. I was just smiling a big happy smile.” August felt like it didn 't matter what his face looked like. It just mattered that he was happy. For once, Auggie didn 't feel like everyone was trying to get away from him; on the contrary, he said, “It kind of felt like everyone wanted to get close to me.” (pg 308) August can finally feel like a “normal” kid.

In the story, “A Separate Piece” by John Knowles, Gene thinks that Finny is trying to ruin his studies and Gene gets mad at him, but Finny actually wasn’t trying to ruin his studies but rather thought Gene was gifted enough to get by without having to study. In the story, Gene becomes jealous of Finny’s athletic ability and tries to be better than him by jouncing the limb of a tree, causing Finny to fall out of it and break his leg. Gene’s friendship with Finny is affected by the accident and also due to World War II. Finny falls again later in the story, this time down stairs, and breaks his leg a second time.

Rivalry can be playful and good natured, but it isn’t always this way. Rivalry and competition can help individuals grow as a person, and help them to develop into mature adults. Competition can be a motivator to do better. It can also lead to vast destruction, and severed friendships. Rivalry in this case is unhealthy, the overall outcome of the story proves this. Finny and Gene didn’t really have a ‘healthy’ rivalry or competition. Their relationship wasn’t healthy, and it eventually leads to the death of Finny. In “A Separate Piece” by John Knowles the rivalry between two friends turns unhealthy very quickly. The competition and rivalry between the two friends is destructive, it destroys their friendship,

In the book The Chosen by Chaim Potok, Danny, a Hasidic Jew, is raised without communicating normally with his father. Even though Danny expresses interest in secular topics his father traps him in religious studies, restricting his thoughts and relationships. However, after a baseball game, Danny gains a new friend called Reuven, who is central to Danny’s mental transformation. By meeting Reuven and his father, Danny’s religiously restricted outlook on his future and life changes to be more forgiving, and he gains freedom in exploring topics other than religion, releasing him from his religious trap.

The boys are saying what they would do if they were in this situation but they have not stopped to understand him as a person, or hear what he does. People just look at him and walk or run away. No one truly sees Auggie for Auggie at first, no one invests in him. Like Auggie, people made assumptions about me and did not bother trying to invest in me, they just left me alone. Not being understood by others can make going to school extremely rough. You feel like you do not belong in the world around you. In school, people never stopped to ask me why I believed what I did, why I was nice to everyone, or why I watched my language. They just chose not to hang around me when they did not have to. Outside of the four walls of school no one wanted to be my friend. I can remember the many times I would get on social media and see the pictures, those pictures of my “friends” together without me made my heart sink. You start to think that something is wrong with you, maybe you are the problem. If you continue to think that it will tear you apart until there is nothing left. Everyone just simply wants to be loved

In the novel Wonder, by R.J Palacio, the reader develops a new understanding of August’s life at Beecher Prep through the eyes of Summer and Jack Will. “I [...] warned mom about August’s face[...] August was coming over[...] I hadn't prepared her enough.” (Palacio 127). This expresses to the reader that Summer tries to protect her friend from being exposed and mocked for the way he looks because she knows that August experiences that continuously. Additionally, Summer, as the light in August’s darkness, demonstrates that she will not be his friend because of Mr. Tushman like Jack, but because she intends to be the safe haven for August. Jamie,a young boy, screams at August because his face scared him, he tells his mother “ I couldn't help

Wonder When you are a good person, people look up to you. When you are a bad person, people fall away from you. This means we should be a good person to look up to. In the story Wonder, by R.J. Palacio, August is a great character to look up to because he is mature about handling people who are rude to him, he goes through life without being scared, and he is friendly to everyone.

In the novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio, the author, writes the story from the perspectives of Jack and Summer, his peers, helping the reader to further understand August’s transition to Beecher Prep. For example, when Summer sees August sitting at the lunch table by himself, she decides to link herself with August: “[t]he weirdest-looking kid [she’s] ever seen, yes. But just a kid.” (Palacio 119). With Summer demonstrating her warmth and hospitality to August shows the reader that what she sees in others, differences from her companions. This also indicates that Summer does not hang out with her gossiping classmates or the vicious name callers against August. On the other hand, Jack, another one of August’s cohorts, notices August’s

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Jimmy Lee Bayliss looks like a regular person because he wears normal clothes, and acted like nothing was wrong. Jimmy Lee Bayliss made himself look innocent by getting rid of the fire he created and blamed it on Duane Scrod Jr. also known as Smoke, so people will judge him by his casual look. In addition to the great examples, Smoke is another person who is judged by his look. This also proves you should not judge a book by it’s cover because like Mrs.Starch, he looks really mean, but deep down, he is really nice and soft. Smoke looks mean because he is big, has a low voice, and has a camo book bag. Deep down he love outdoor activities, and he is soft because he helped save the baby panther names Squirt to track the mom

In the novel "Wonder” by RJ Palacio, August’ point of you makes the reader empathize with August based on the awful things his classmates speak to him. The people at school call August names like “Ratboy. Freak. Monster. Freddy Krueger. E.T. [...] Mutant.” (Palacio 79). He mentions that he has blocked out the feeling of getting made fun of for the way he looks. This shows that August has heard terrible things that kids say that they may not mean based on their age, but being in fifth grade kids now understand what they're saying, and they mean what they say. These kids are no longer juvenile children, they are able to understand the harmful words they say. His class does not look past his face into his heart, showing that they are not yet ready

To me, the main message of the book “Wonder” is that we all may be different but in the end, we should choose kindness over everything else. August may have had a deformed face but his face that he thought was his flaw turned out to be one of his greatest strength next to his personality, and his positiveness. Also, the book showed us a lot of different perspectives, the fact that they all showed kindness was spectacular. Like for the character Summer, she decided to sit with August and the fact that she did it out of the kindness in her heart and no adult asked her to be amazing. The character Jake, he had started hanging out with August and saw how funny, kind, and smart he was, so they became very close friends and at first, he chose popularity, but then he started to realize he missed August so, in the end, he chose August over being popular.

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