Wonder By J. Palacio: An Analysis

In the book Wonder by R.J. Palacio the main protagonist, Auggie Pullman is sent to a private school for his first year of middle school. For August, this is his first year in a classroom with other students as well. But, unlike other children August has a rare disability that affects the way his face looks and the way he hears. Yet, he is still placed in a classroom with normal kids. Books like Wonder raise questions about including disabled children in classrooms with nondisabled children.Such as, do accommodations for students with disabilities negatively affect the education of nondisabled students? The answer is no, accommodations made for children with disabilities do not negatively affect the education of nondisabled children and in fact positively affect the classroom as a whole. Including children with disabilities can teach kids to be kind, it can give them a new perspective for learning, and the accommodations for disabled children are nondisruptive. …show more content…
In the book Wonder, the pesky mom of a student complains that Henry Beecher Ward, the school most characters attend in the book, is changing too much to accommodate for Auggie’s needs. But, in reality the most that is changing is the fifth grade art show. She nags that the school changed the type of self portraits that the fifth graders do and she argues that the school does not include those with disabilities. As you can see her argument is invalid because these accommodations are miniscule and non disruptive. Which is one of the many reasons they do not negatively affect the other students’