A
book review about Wonder by R.J. Palacio.
Wonder,
is about a young boy that has a facial disfigurement, he is ten years old and
he lives with his sister, mum and dad. His name is August, sometimes he gets
really upset because people give him different looks only because he has
something wrong with his face. At the start of the story August was saying that
he does ordinary things but his face isn’t the same. He is going into 5th grade
[year six] but he didn’t really go to school because of his face and the
surgeries he had. At first it was a happy story but then it started getting
sad.
The
main characters are August, his mum, his dad and his new school principal.
August is a very kind and thoughtful boy, his dad is very funny because he
always tells funny jokes, his sister is very thoughtful and helpful because she
always helps August with anything and the principal is very nice and kind he
can help at all times. Some of the characters were described like August about
the way he looks like. I found August’s sister [Via] is the most interesting
because she always tells people to stop and I could feel like I was her because
it just gets in my mind. She didn’t change, she was the same all through. Their
mum and dad are the only relationships there.
It
was written in first person just like it was happening now. It was important
because it made it feel like it was happening now and it would get in your
mind. The setting wasn’t really in detail because it didn’t really give much
information about it. The feelings were described in detail because they tell
you how they feel. It was a very good and marvellous story because it has all
the details and what happened. My favourite part of the story was when they
came in to August’s new school and he went looking round because he was so
scared about it but then got happy.
I
think that the author had a particular reason of telling this story to show to
some children to not judge people or a book by its colour or look. I felt
really sad at one point because these older kids started picking on him and
making him get upset but after I read it I felt happy that he found a lot of
different friends to play with. I learned that you can’t be mean to people with
disabilities or anything else. I would definitively recommend this book to a
lot of people. I would read other books by this author because his books always
tell true stories that people learn to be nice to others.
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