“I’m not a monster!” August Pullman is just as any other normal fifth grader. He can do just about anything that other kids can do. The only problem is that he looks different from the rest of the students in the school. RJ Palacio wrote the book, Wonder, for many reasons but there’s one main one. I may look different on the outside, but it’s on the inside is what matters most. RJ Palacio wrote about a kid with a deformed face who goes and makes the choice to try middle school and any school for the first time ever. He has the main character, August, play the part of a shy, friendly, and really smart young boy. This is what puts the whole story together because August couldn’t make friends for the whole school year just because he was judged on his appearance. But, RJ Palacio made a character named Summer who chose to become friends with August over being popular. Summer left the popular table to come and sit with August because she wanted him to have a friend. The author planned and wrote this book so that we should all be friends with all different people even if they don’t look exactly like you because everyone is different. …show more content…
Bullseye, target, and easy to get is what August is to other students in the grade.
The author, RJ Palacio, wrote the book to be like this because not just August gets judged because of what he looks like but other people in the real world get judged too. The author wants the readers to relate if they have been judged because of what they look like. This book also wants the readers who maybe can’t relate to help stop it. The author wrote this book to help the readers to develop courage to stand up to those who are judging others just like August did. August stood up to the plate and tried his hardest to put a stop to those who didn’t accept him for who he
was. First step into school and all eyes are on my face. It’s different walking into school and having to face bad remarks kids make of you because of your face. First, staring at someone is impolite, second, staring makes the person uncomfortable, and lastly, it gets to a point at which staring at someone for a long time can make them not feel welcomed. All these reasons RJ Palacio put into the book and had the main character face them. August walked into school on the first day and was stared at which made him uncomfortable and wanted not to go back to school. Someone who has a totally different face, disabled, and looks nothing similar to you doesn’t mean you need to stare because it’s rude and the person gets an uncomfortable feeling. Treat people as if they treated you. Were all different and we all need to accept it for who we and they are. Judging a book by its cover is as bad as judging a person on his/her looks. Slammed against lockers, getting pushed around the hallways, and always getting picked on isn’t fun or enjoyable. Staring at someone till it gets to the point at which the person is uncomfortable and wanting to leave is ridiculous. RJ Palacio wrote this book so others will learn not to judge people on how they look. People treat others like they are nothing but they are something. They are humans trying to enjoy life just like any other one of us. Were all the same in somewhat way but different.
Similes in the story gives the readers insight of not only the fifth-grader but the adult too. “By the time school started that year, Eddy had a keloid like a piece of twine down the side of his face and a black patch he had to wear until he got his glass eye that stared in a fixed angle at the sky,” (Line 56-59). This quote has a simile, which shows how the fifth-grader feels about her cousin Eddy. The simile allows the readers to make a prediction that the fifth-grader and Eddy get along pretty well because the narrator never describes him as scary, mean, or distant. The simile effects the narrator’s characterization because it make the fifth-grader seem gentle and excited to be around people. The character is given characterization through similes. Similes are a key component to characterization because it allows readers to understand the narrator and character in the story. Figurative language is used throughout the story to characterize the adult narrator's memories in the
The author created this book for our entertainment, but also to teach us that you shouldn’t change for anyone, that you should express yourself the way that you want to.
To begin with, Vonnegut advises that beauty can make a better society every now and then for everyone. Kurt Vonnegut explores his main character, a young fourteen boy, Harrison considered as a handicap because of his abilities to succeed. Harrison is designated as smart, skilled, physically strong, and better looking. However the author inscribes this story based on Harrison’s mind. Vonnegut plots the conflict within Harrison’s morality because Harrison struggles with his desires of making an equal society. Vonnegut chooses to develop Harrison in order to help us readers understand the meaning of equality in his creative society, that no man or woman was supposed to be attractive or beautiful than others. Earlier in the story the government put laws on individual’s physical appearance that everyone should be equal. But Harrison and his empress were above the average of the other. Harrison had power as soon as he declared himself “emperor” and the empress was “extraordinarily beautiful” by the reason why the government killed them. “It was then ...
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