When a young girl is stoned after attempting to escape an arranged marriage, is it society’s fault? Did an ancient force named “society” demand the punishment? Did it move the arms of an entire village towards the dirt to pick up a death sentence? No, it did not. This is because Golding’s theory is correct: the defects, or evils, found in society are but reflections of the evils in its makers. It was the people who decided to throw the rocks, not some ancient force. Similarly, in the children’s novel Wonder, author R. J. Palacio demonstrates the effects of individual people on collective communities through a school of children around someone they fear. The protagonist, a boy with craniofacial differences, initially equates his situation to