Is Abnormality In R. J. Palacio's Wonder?

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The planets rotate around the sun, and Olivia, Auggie’s sister, is one of Auggie’s planets. R.J. Palacio wrote the inspiring novel titled Wonder which demonstrates the behavior of human beings when confronted with Auggie, who possesses a face abnormality from birth. The deformity creates numerous responses of disgust from public encounters, but Olivia displays unconditional admiration towards her younger brother. Even though Olivia becomes distant during her first year of high school, she remains a mentor to Auggie in his first year of public school, despite personal problems. These issues involve her losing her parent’s attention due to Auggie’s special needs, which forces Olivia into a second class position. Furthermore, Olivia Pullman’s …show more content…
Demonstrating the protective nature of the young woman since her brother remains normal under her wing, which involves love similar to a mother figure. Also, Olivia as a fifteen-year-old girl contains first hand experience of mean children, this insight allows Olivia to guide Auggie with enhanced precision. This results in her personal suppression of emotion during the majority of her life experience, but due to her preservation she asks Auggie if people were nice to him the first day of school (Palacio 96). Despite the conversation turning sarcastic because of Auggie’s response, Olivia remains calm throughout the conversation since this is his first day of public school. Although adjustments for Olivia are difficult due to her best friend Miranda changing Olivia refrains from complaining about being alone. Farther in the year during Halloween, Olivia claims children to be dumb and comforts Auggie by assuring him that he is not a freak because of the cruel comment that his best friend, Jack Will, stated to the popular crowd(Palacio 112). This leaves Olivia as the mentor role throughout numerous incidents and she fixes them through inspiring Auggie to triumph hate with his persistent nature. Therefore, her safety net allows Auggie a sibling defense system, which pushes Auggie vigorously forward in casual daily activities, such as

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