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Wonder By R. J. Palcio Essay

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Vu1 Therence Vu Mr. Knight ELA 10 June 2024 In the fantastic collection of pages, called the book Wonder, by R.J Palcio, Auggie is in a conflict with himself and Julian Alban. He has anxiety when talking to people and going to public school. Auggie has a face deformity that he is insecure about. When his parents finally convince him to go to public school, Auggie meets his bully, Julian Alban. In the beginning he is scared of school and socializing and when he goes to school he makes new friends but he runs into Julian Alban and learns to deal with bullies and pushes him out the way and learns to deal with bullies. In the beginning of the story, when he first agreed to go to public school after going through a dilemma if he wanted to or not with his mom and dad, he met the principal, Mr. Tushman. He introduced Auggie to 3 kids, Charlotte, Jack and Julian. After they gave him a tour of the school Julian said, “What's the deal with your face? I mean, were you in a fire or something.” This is Julian being rude and insensitive about Auggie's face deformity. Right after Julian said that, Charlotte and Jack immediately stand up for Auggie and Charlotte says “Julian! That means, why would you say that?” But Julian just says “Whatever” and walks away. This shows that Auggie and Julian doesn't have a good relationship and Julian will continue to …show more content…

August and Summer are talking about how their names kinda match since in August it is summer with nice sunny skies and warm days where you can play outside and have fun with friends. Julian comes along whenever he gets the chance to call Auggie names like “Disgusting”, “Freak” and “Zombie boy”. Zombie boy Julian references Auggie's face to a zombie's droopy and disgusting face, making fun of his face deformity, being mean and bullying Auggie, lowering Auggie’s self

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