Literary essay
Based
of Wonder by rj palico
some important ideas in the story wonder by rj palicio wonder is
all about overcoming differences and making memories. throughout the story we
hear about Aguast life and his greatest adventure yet school friendships
rivalries and heart breaks this story is truly wonder. I think that the
important idea is you have to learn to love yourself throughout the story August
starts school this year and throughout the year kids start to change there
opinion about August and he also thinks about himself different.
In the beginning he starts out saying
" I am not a ordinary ten year old boy yes I do ordinary things like i eat
ice cream i ride my bike I play catch and play my Xbox". This shows that
in the beginning what he thinks of himself he refers to himself as not an
ordinary boy he literally knows this because ordinary kids do not make ordinary
kids run away. This supports my claim because he has to learn to love
himself this is at the begging where he hates his deformity and hates himself
for having it. When I first read this i immediately knew there was something
wrong with his body. and one more clue to that he does not love himself in the
begginig of the story on page 43 he tries so hard to not get noticed and even
raise his head up from his desk just so kids can not look at him.
in his mind he thinks how can I love
myself if other kids hate me call me the freak. But the truth is for
anyone to have others even like you you have to like yourself. He does
not know it but other kids do like him Christopher and summer like Aguast and
his family loves him. He does not see it that way and so until Aguast
truly knows they love him he will never be able to love himself. This was
starting to happen but then a huge set back emerged jack will said
in front of aguast that he did not like aguast in fact said "if i looked
like that I would kill myself "this made aguast not just not love himself
but at this point he hates himself.
On page 165 to 167 Aguast and jack are
most likely texting and because friends over jack punching jullian. Jack
did not mean what he said he did not realize that when he said it but he reliz
ed after. This skyrockets Aguast feelings and at this point he lies
himself but jullian had turn the whole 6 grade boys against him so they all
hated him. For a normal kid I would think it was terrible but to Aguast
having one true friend is amazing. The part that I really think Aguast
learned to love himself was the nature retreat as he was getting bullied
Amos miles and Henry came out and helped him they had everybody forget about
the war. And the day Aguast went to school without anyone snickering at
him he realized that people loved him and he loved them back finally Aguast
learned to love himself.
My conclusion is that Aguast overcame his differences toke insualts from bullies a whole grade
hating him he relizes he is wonder.
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