My book was “Wonder” by R.J. Palacio, which was a fictional book about a 10 year old boy with severe facial deformities named August, or Auggie, and his journey in entering the harsh environment of middle school for the first time. August lives in a Manhattan home with his two parents and sister in modern day times. In the start of August’s journey, August is accepting the fact that after years of being in the comfort of his own home, he needs to step out of his comfort zone and go to middle school, which his mom had been encouraging him to do. Although August is aware that he will more than likely experience bullying at middle school, as he has his whole life, he still develops enough courage to go in hopes of experiencing life as a normal kid. As expected, in the start of August’s time in middle school, he gets bullied by other kids by receiving stares of disgust, exclusion, and even some physical bullying, all because of his facial deformities. However, August was resilient and decided to stay in middle school despite how hard it may have been. As August made his way through his first year of middle school, he gradually started to develope friends once people noticed his sense of humor, intelligence, and kindness. Towards the end of the …show more content…
Characters that were well involved in August’s life each had a chapter to share their point of view into August’s life and their own. For example, August’s sister, Via, shares her point of view of her experience about growing up with a brother that has severe deformities. Via confides in how she has unconditional love for her brother, but at times felt as if the world focused on him instead of her, which made her feel slightly excluded within her family. Other points of view in Wonder included August’s friends and Via’s friends, in which their views also helped emphasize what would go through people’s minds when interacting with
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...ersonally, I fell in love with the book. Ray Bradbury has a more unique style in writing than most authors. I believe it is a very appropriate book for high school and I would recommend it to everyone. I think anyone and everyone can connect someway to the main themes of the novel. Everyone has or will undergo a stage in life where they don’t feel accepted. Then it is up to that person to chose how they decided to take it. In the book some characters decided to fight the evil and found themselves doing so. People get so caught up in what people think when really they should just accept themselves, “Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets” (Clark Moustakas). This book could show that no matter the age or who you are anything is possible and not even the sky is the limit.
Fiction books can teach students the issues with bullying and suicide. If fiction gets taken away students won’t learn what makes a bully a bully, why a bully bullies and what bullying can lead to in the long run. The novel Twisted is written beautifully by Laurie Halse Anderson. Anderson tells a story about a couple of people who all experience bullying and the consequences of bullying. Bullying is brought up a lot in this book. Tyler gets beat up, cyberbullying is involved and he gets blamed for it. Many kids are bullied in school and online and it often leads to mental illnesses or suicide. Fiction can teach kids why bullying needs to be talked about more because it’s a big problem.
Have you or someone you know been bullied? Your answer is probably yes. So was Jodee Blanco, the author of Please Stop Laughing At Me… One Woman’s Emotional Story. Starting in 5th grade up until high school graduation, she was tormented by her classmates, getting little or no help from authority. Even her parents began to believe it was her fault. She understands what it feels like to be bullied and wrote the book as something other victims can relate to. She also wrote it to show people how bad bullying really is and get them to understand that it shouldn’t be dismissed as a normal part of growing up and allowed to happen. Something should be done to prevent kids from going through this. That is her main point in this book. The main idea of this book is Ms. Blanco sharing her experiences experiences of being bullied through much of her adolescent life to show people the horrors of bullying and that it shouldn't be allowed to continue.
I have just read the book titled Among the Impostors. The author of this book is Margaret Peterson Haddix. This book is a sequel to Among the Hidden. In Among the Hidden, a boy named Luke is hiding from the world because he is an illegal third child. He shouldn’t exist because the government limited the amount of children to each family to two because of the decreasing amounts of food. Luke gets sick of hiding and wants to make a difference, so he gets a fake I.D. with the help of a neighbor and goes to a boarding school. Among the Impostors continues on with Luke’s life in the boarding school, and shows that no matter how people act, they can be very different on the inside. At the boarding school, there is a boy named Jason who gives Luke a very hard time. He has him do push-ups and a bunch of other pointless tasks just in order to get into his bed. Luke is getting sick of it, and one day, he notices that a door is open in the school. It shows the outdoors, and Luke knows that’s his only chance of escaping the wretched school. Once he gets outside, he notices that it’s surrounded by a huge forest that stretches for miles. He ventures outside and makes himself a pitiful garden, but he feels good about it anyway. That was the only thing that kept him there. Then one day he went outside and found that his garden was ruined by people who had stomped all over it. Luke cooks up a plan to bust the people that ruined his garden. He sneaks out during the night and waits for the people to arrive outside. He finds that one of them is Jason. As he eavesdrops on their conversation, he finds out that they’re all third children too.
6 )The plot of this book is about a 10 year old Melody Brooks who has Cerebral Palsy. She can’t move or talk but, she is the smartest kid in her class. Throughout the book she gets bullied. She tries proving herself to her classmates by
How would you feel growing up in a world and never being considered normal? The book “Wonder” by R.J Palacio features a young boy, August Pullman, whose life was anything but normal. Life isn’t always easy, but for August it was especially grueling. Even though August would have gotten an education if he stayed home schooled, August’s school experience was good for him because he learned a lot of new things, he had awesome yet frightening adventures, and he made some friends along the way.
...hem wonder why she had no relationships with noone since she has been there and why she never came out of the house. This in a literary since makes the reader want to continue reading in the excitement of what is happening next and keeps them interested.
In the story, “Masks” by Grealy, writer of “autobiography of a face”, writes about her experience at school dealing with boys making fun of her and calling her names. Grealy was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, an aggressive form of cancer, which left her with only half of her jaw. While Grealy would be at lunch at school, boys would say “that is the ugliest girl I have ever seen”(Grealy 56). At first it did not bother Grealy she just brushed it aside because she knew it had nothing to do with her. After she could not take it anymore, she “broke down and went to [her] guidance counselor to complain”(Grealy 56). When she went to him, he told Grealy that she could eat lunch in his office. While her time sitting in her counselor's office, she started
I’ve been sitting here thinking about the question if this story can be compared to other stories I’ve read. But to tell you the truth the last story I’ve read is The Fault in our Stars. Otherwise I’m reading autobiography’s, such as Binge. This book was amazing because he came out of the closet, after being bullied. I can relate to that book because I too was bullied and it hurts a lot.
The first and most brave thing Auggie has ever gone through is having surgeries. In all of Auggie’s life, he has had 27 surgeries to correct facial anomalies; this definitely requires much bravery! Another act of bravery was when he decided to go to his new public school, Beecher Prep. This decision was very brave, since Auggie would risk being made fun of for his deformed face. In the past he was always protected by his mother, who homeschooled him, and no one could make fun of him. Going to a public school was definitely a brave step for Auggie. In addition, the middle school Auggie goes to planned to go to camp. Deciding to go on this camping trip was a remarkable decision for Auggie, since he had never slept anywhere without his parents. This was another brave choice for Auggie. Also, when he was at the camp, he and Jack left the group watching a movie when both boys needed to pee and the line for the toilets was too long. Because the lines were so long, they went into the woods to do their business. On their way back, they bumped into another group of people they did not know. As soon as they saw Auggie, they screamed and were calling him names. Then, one of the boys named Eddie shone the flashlight he was holding in Auggie’s face. After that, Jack tried to push the hand holding the flashlight away but the boy just pushed him to the ground. Auggie then said, “We’re smaller than you guys…” Then suddenly,
During the 1960s , the British made a secret agreement with the United States to sell the land of Diego Garcia for a military base. Not only is this area one of the U.S’s biggest military bases, but this base has been used to strike attacks in both Iraq wars (MacAskill 2004). It has become the a platform for the U.S to police the world. Consequently, before it became a military base for the U.S, the generations of Chagossians who inhabited the island, who were all forcibly deported from Diego Garcia, never to be able to return home again.
I was so self-conscious and honestly never thought much of myself; all I knew were the negatives. But I was always nice to everyone though, that was an important thing to me. I believed that if I was nice eventually they would stop with the bullying; this is something I would always say to myself to keep my hopes up. I was surprised though when I began high school; it felt as if everyone had totally forgot about how they would pick on me, it took all this for me to finally realize that I shouldn’t have let that happen to me. It was Friday, December 21, 2012 that I was lying in my room going through my thoughts that I finally asked myself why I don’t feel confident. It was the day I realized that I’m gorgeous, intelligent, and wise and that I shouldn’t think any less and if that anybody had anything to say otherwise I wouldn’t care. It took me all those years of bullying to finally feel genuinely happy, and secure with who I am now and to finally rip that mask off and embrace me. I thank my bullies actually because without them Chisom Stella Okafor wouldn’t be like
In the story “Wonder” a little boy named Auggie, the protagonist, that has a deformed face struggles with people staring at him and laughing while others call him mean names. For instance, a character named Eddy called Auggie “Gollum” and “alien” at a camp. Worst of all at the exposition of the story Auggie was home schooled but now is at a real school. Auggie made some friends, but a boy named Julian is bullying Auggie. Auggie loves Star Wars. Julian used Star Wars to bully Auggie by asking if Auggies favorite character is
Remaining a constant victim to bullying for 11 years significantly affected how I viewed myself and others around me. To most I wasn’t worth giving more than a single glance. I had a gap between my two front teeth, which was a primary target of ridicule. My clothes were “nice”, but they weren’t by the designer label everyone else was wearing. Not only did I dress and look ugly, I was also a black girl- a lighter skinned