Wonder - R J Palacio
Book Critique:
The book is about a kid named August Pullman. "August Pullman wants to be a ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things. He eats ice cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside.
But Auggie is far from ordinary. Ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids don't get stared at wherever the go.
Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life, in an attempt to protect him from the cruelty of the outside world. Now, for the fist time, he's been sent to a real school - and he's dreading it."
(Wonder 'about the book')
This book is made up of descriptive sentences and has eight parts to
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The "I's" in this book have been written in lower case. All the nouns in this book all start in lower case, and the start of all the sentences have started with a lower case. Throughout this book I have noticed these minor mistakes.
My favourite part in this book is at the end because the entire books is about how Auggie is going to a new school and know one ever liked him until the end and he has an award ceremony for a few kids who get trophies. Auggie ended up getting a medal "Henry Ward Beecher medal I'd about recognising greatness" (Wonder.) Mr Tushman continues about how they chose this receiver for the medal. "Without further do, this year I am very proud to award the Henry Ward Beecher medal to the student whose quit strength has carried up the most hearts so will August Pullman please come up here to receive this award. "
Early on the book August had gone to his sisters show and throughout the finale when Via came out to take her bow the entire audience stood on there feet it was a standing ovation. August quotes "Everyone deserves a standing ovation once throughout there life." When August went up to receive his award the audience applauded and the audience stood up it was a standing ovation all for
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Walker, Alice. "Chapter 1 Fiction: An Overview." Literature: an Introduction to Reading and Writing. By Edgar V. Roberts. 9th ed. New York: Longman, 2009. 108-14. Print.
R.J Palacio’s novel Wonder is an emotional story about a young boy named August Pullman and all of the difficulties he faces because of his disfigured face, young August has a genetic dieses called Mandibulofacialdysatosis the story also shows why it is important to accept peoples differences, as we travel through a series of different first point views this is what makes it different to other first point view books. In the essay the views of Jack, Via and August will be explored and discussed. These characters can give a better and different understanding about the protagonist August Pullman and all of his struggles and difficulties through his first year of school.
Lauter, Paul. The Heath anthology of American literature. 6th ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pub. Co., 2009. Print.
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