Dear R.J. Palacio,
Your book Wonder was more than just a book to me. I was born three months early with low blood platelets and multiple deforms on my body. All these things never became a problem until my first year of middle school and I started to get sick more often and the spots on my skin became more prominent. I got bullied for the things i could not control. I felt as if i was trapped and would never be able to escape, until someone recommended I read Wonder.
Your book became an outlet for me. Reading about the struggles August was going through in the book made me feel as if someone was going through this with me. I tried to handle things the way August did and try not to fight back. At some points though I couldn’t help but hate the way I look. In the beginning of the book, August says, “If I found a magic lamp and could have one wish, I would wish that I had a normal face that no one ever noticed at all”(Palacia 3). Reading this made me feel as if August was right there with me relating with me, not trying to act like he knew what I was going …show more content…
How did you come up with the ways people would make fun of August, because even if you think it’s wrong for people to judge him for the way it looks to make the book realistic you had to include it in the novel even if it felt wrong. When you were coming up with ideas were you using real life events that you have seen or accidentally done yourself. Because we all know even how much we try you are going to end up slightly staring or pointing at someone who looks different. For example, i personally know what it feels like for people to stare and point and not even notice my face or new hair cut because they are too busy staring at my skin marks, but sometimes i still accidentally end up staring at someone who looks different
Your book Wonder was more than just a book to me. I was born three months early with low blood platelets and multiple deforms on my body. All these things never became a problem until my first year of middle school and I started to get sick more often and the spots on my skin became more prominent. I got bullied for the things i could not control. I felt as if i was trapped and would never be able to escape, until someone recommended I read Wonder.
Your book became an outlet for me. Reading about the struggles August was going through in the book made me feel as if someone was going through this with me. I tried to handle things the way August did and try not to fight back. At some points though I couldn’t help but hate the way I look. In the beginning of the book, August says, “If I found a magic lamp and could have one wish, I would wish that I had a normal face that no one ever noticed at all”(Palacia 3). Reading this made me feel as if August was right there with me relating with me, not trying to act like he knew what I was going …show more content…
How did you come up with the ways people would make fun of August, because even if you think it’s wrong for people to judge him for the way it looks to make the book realistic you had to include it in the novel even if it felt wrong. When you were coming up with ideas were you using real life events that you have seen or accidentally done yourself. Because we all know even how much we try you are going to end up slightly staring or pointing at someone who looks different. For example, i personally know what it feels like for people to stare and point and not even notice my face or new hair cut because they are too busy staring at my skin marks, but sometimes i still accidentally end up staring at someone who looks different