Wonder By R. J. Palacio And Crash, By Jerry Spinelli

In the novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio and Crash by Jerry Spinelli, the protagonists undergo significant character changes toward becoming more mature individuals. Over the course of Wonder , Auggie Pullman realizes that not everything is about him and that he needs to grow up, and in Crash, Crash Coogan learns to be kind to everyone, and that he shouldn’t be so self-conceited because he can play football really well. While both Auggie and Crash are middle schoolers who respond to family tragedy by developing into more mature individuals, they begin middle school as very different people; the change in different ways as a result of their family’s tragedies; and they both become more mature, but in different ways. When Crash and Auggie start middle school, they are both faced with different situations. August kept getting stared at and was being bullied by someone, but Crash was bullying someone and had an equally brutal football jock friend. August had to face a whole new school with completely new faces. He only knew three total kids out of everyone when he first started fifth grade, and one …show more content…
Crash decided to be a little kinder to people and not so rough. He let Penn win the Penn Relays entry race to please the boy’s grandfather. He realized how embarrassed Penn must’ve been all those years and how badly he must’ve hurt him, mentally and physically. After realizing this, he and Penn became best friends, which surely made Penn forget all the things Crash did to him. Auggie became less dependent of his parents and became more independent. He also got rid of all his Star Wars stuff, and he didn’t try to get his way because of his deformity. He knew that if he wanted to be treated like everyone else, he would have to act like everyone else. Both protagonists became much more mature towards the end of the book, even though it was in different