Wonder draft

The book Wonder by R.J. Palacio is about a boy who faces many challenges in fifth grade. It's from the perspective of many challenging people along with a boy that has a disordered face, named August. August is a boy with a disordered face in fifth grade. He gets bullied in fifth grade. A lot of August’s friends try to help ‘protect’ Auggie so he does not get bullied as much, like he did in the beginning of the story. August's face is what makes him himself. He's normal on the inside but on the outside he is one of a kind.

 

              Throughout the story August was judged by his face. Just his face. No one really knew how smart and talented he was until they hung out with him. The other students just knew him as some awkward looking psycho with a weird face. Not a normal kid like he really is. Especially Julian, who just thinks August is just a big joke, and has some sort of 'cheese touch' kind of the thing. Lots of rumors started to spread thru out the story, to make fun of August.

 

Also in the story, during fifth grade camp August and Jack went into the woods to go to the bathroom (the bathroom line was to long) and they ran into four seven and eighth graders. They beat up Auggie, Jack, and a few other kids (named Amos, Henry, and Miles). The eighth graders began making fun of Auggie and calling Auggie him names like '"What happened to your face?" "Hey guys I didn't know we were watching lord of the rings... look guys its Gollum'”. Then Amos, Jack, Hennery, and Miles stood up and started fighting back, for Auggie. They started fighting back and protecting Auggie.

 

By the end of the story Auggie was treated with more and more respect. He got a Henry Ward Beecher medal. As Mr. Tushman was introducing the medal he was explaining how well Auggie was working and interacting with others. For Example '"strength was carried with the most hearts"'. This shows that Auggie gained his strength to use for others, he interacts with.

 

Don't judge anyone by their face. In the book Wonder I learned that everyone is different and equal. I think that Auggie and other people like him should be treated more like a normal kid. My cousin is just like Auggie. She has a deformed face, we get along together, after a while you just get used to what they look like.