Wonder Book Analysis

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Have you ever thought for a while,” What is my favorite book that my class has read this year?” Well if you have ever read the book Wonder you would know what I mean when I say, I think Wonder is the best book we have read this whole year. When you sit and think, you realize so many things. The things I have realized is I connect to the characters, I love the humor, and the type of book it is. First, I truly connect to the characters in this book. Via, well Via and I got it going. I have a brother that is autistic. He can’t talk very much, but he says a lot more than any autistic child that I know. He has really good balance. My point is, we both have brothers that have some type of disability. I connect to Summer. I get Summer's intentions. I am always friends ( or try to be friends ) with the new kid at school. I don’t care what they look like. Especially, if they have Auggies disorder. They need a friend, you know how much they probably get bullied? In all of the other books I truly can not connect to any of the characters. Some might, but me I just can’t. Next, the humor, I love the humor in this book. Auggie is truly like me when it comes to being uncomfortable. We make up different stupid jokes to change the conversation . …show more content…

He would always make fun of Auggie, and it really did hurt him. So they wrote fake letters from a fake person. “One was: You’re so pretty, Julian! I love you . Will you marry me! Love Beulah,” it was really funny. One that really shows that Auggie was trying to get out of a uncomfortable situation is “ Did you know the guy who created the Uglydolls based it on me?” We all know that he is joking, but you can tell he is trying to get out of an awkward situation. In any of the other books, it was not humors. They all were sad and lonely feeling, in each and every one of

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