Literary Essay Wonder

 “To me, bravery is to stand up for what you
belive in.” Going to school and making friends is hard, doing it with a facial
deformity is harder. In the book Wonder by R.J. Palacio, Auggie overcomes the
challenge of going to school with a facial deformity. He’s brave just to try to
go to school but getting thorugh a whole is really brave. Some people think
that its easy to make friends but it takes more than going to school to make
friends. It takes a wonder to that. Most people think that's it's not that
hard, but I think that it takes a lot of bravery. I think in Wonder by R.J
Palacio, that Auggie is a wonder for being that brave.  (7)







At  the beginning of the story it gives evidence
that Auggie is a wonder because

Auggie has two friends and that's an accomplishment to makes friends especially

with a facial deformity. At the beginning not many people were nice to him, they
gave him mean looks and wispered about him. For example all those
people felt 'horrified. Sickened. Scared.' One girl sticks up for him and sits
with him at lunch. Her name is summer and she tells the girls who are bullying
him and laughing at him to stop it. Jack also sticks up for him when Julian
calls him mean names and bullys him. This shows that he has really good friends
and he really is a wonder for making friends that stick up for you. (7)







His
friends stick up for each other, and are really nice to him and treat him like

a normal kid. Like Justin "Yo, don't mess with Auggie." He said that becuase
some kids were bullying him and he stuck up for him. That's what real friends
are even though he's older than Auggie. They all became used to him and became
nice to him. Like this girl Maya who used to not talk to him and now is nice to
him. She gave Auggie a keychain that says 'to the nicest Auggie Doll in the
world.' So people are being nice to him which shows Auggie is a wonder becuase
he can have so many people being nice to him. That's accomplishmement even
without a different face. (9)







Auggie
is a wonder becuase he can change the way people feel and think about him.

"I am very pleased to award The Henry Ward Beecher medal to the student whose
quiet strength has carried up to the most hearts. So will August
Pullman please come up here to receive this medal?" Auggie changed everyones
perspective on him and how to judge people. I think it's a great accomplishment
for him to get through 5th grade and to have everyone friends with you and nice
to you. His mom is really proud of him.

"Thank you Auggie."



"For
what?"



"For
everything you've given us," she said. "For coming into our lives.

For being you." You really are a wonder, Auggie. You are a wonder."



Auggie
is a real wonder becuase he changed the way his parents look at him and he

changed the way everyone at school thought about him. I think that's a huge accomplishment
to change the way even you're parents look at you. Auggies mom

thinks that he's a wonder and so do I for being so brave to get though 5^th
grade.  (11)











Now
as I think about it everyone is a wonder no matter who they are.  Some people will feel pity towards Auggie, but
you shouldn’t feel pity towards the person. You shouldn’t feel pity you should instead
think about how brave they are and how you can be you just as brave. You can be
a wonder no matter who you are just by being kind. In my life there are so many
people changing other people’s life and that’s what I think being a wonder is. “Courage
doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid, courage means you don’t let fear stop you.”