Analysis Of Auggie And Me, Three Wonder Stories By R. J. Palacio

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Auggie and Me, Three Wonder Stories Auggie and Me, Three Wonder Stories it is a continuation of the first book, Wonder. The author, R.J. Palacio said, “What this book is, precisely, is an expansion of Auggie's world(Introduction).” Auggie and Me explains Julian, Christopher and Charlotte’s stories after Auggie came to their school. Auggie is not a main character in Auggie and Me. In Wonder Auggie is the protagonist, along with Jack, who is also not a main character in Auggie and me. Auggie and me is about the three characters and their experiences after Auggie came to the school. Julian’s story is about how he is forgives Auggie; Christopher’s story is how his relationship with Auggie. Friends are a huge part in Charlotte’s life, that …show more content…

In the book Auggie and Me, Three Wonder Stories the three characters that explain their stories are Julian, Christopher, and Charlotte. They all make choices that have drastic consequences. The first character in the book is Julian. He makes two major choices, to be mean to Auggie but then to change his mind. Being rude to Auggie was a negative choice in his life. The positive choice was apologizing. The vital choice in the story is when he changes his mind. There were many small choices that helped him make this very big choice. One of his decisions was to go to his grandmere’s house. In the book it says, “My parents and I went to Paris in June. The original plan was that we would return to New York in July, since I was supposed to go to a rock-and-roll camp with Henry and Miles… My parents decided to let me stay with my grandmother for the rest of the summer. Usually, I hated staying with Grandmere, but I was okay about it this time(63).” He goes on to explain that he would end up playing video game all day. He didn’t go knowing that he was going to apologize to Auggie; it ended up being that way. The next small choice he made was listening to his Grandmere stories. In the book it says, “Grandmere continued talking. I have to admit; at first I wasn’t into her telling me one of her long stories, but I was getting into this one(73).” He could have chosen to ignore her like he usually does; he does himself good and listens. A final mini decision he makes is he has a change of heart; it affects him and his parents. On page 85 the book reads, “I kept thinking about how sad Grandmere was when she told the story.” Then on page 90 it says, “Sometimes people surprise you. Never in a million years would I have thought my mom would be the one to back down from anything…” So the first quote is about how he remembered that story. He could’ve chose to ignore it, but instead he chose to change his mind. Then the second quote is about how he

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