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Wonder (Wonder, #1)

by R.J. Palacio

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Tyna Tran said: " First of all, I want to tell you about the first most important thing of the book that the name of the author. When you read a book, the first thing that you want to know who wrote it and who is he/she? They’re famous or they just normal? How old are First of all, I want to tell you about the first most important thing of the book that the name of the author. When you read a book, the first thing that you want to know who wrote it and who is he/she? They’re famous or they just normal? How old are they? Why they write it? You would want to hear something about their life and themselves. A famous author and she lives in New York City, R.J. Palacio, who created a beautiful book in my mind and help me realized I really like read this book “Wonder”. Now, R.J. Palacio lives with her husband and two sons. Before that, she was an art director and book jacket designer, and she never think she will be the writer or become an author of a famous book although she always wanted to write. She waited for the perfect time to start writing, but after more than twenty years of designing book jackets for other people, she still cannot write something and she realized she couldn’t wait for that, it never come to her. “Just do it” and she decided to just go for it. Wonder is her first novel. It’s an interesting book with the blue cover outside the book and a special face as a boy with an eye on the surface. It is a book for children written by R.J. Palacio and published on February 14, 2012 (Valentine day). This is just a fiction story but it base on her experiences from life and she used all to write a book that called “Wonder”, because it based on her own experience so that was the reason why we can feel something very close from the book, the feeling it brings to readers will be very real.
The story of how to face and overcome all difficulties in life when he was not normal as his friends and other people, August, who get love and caring from his family because he was a rare medical facial deformity. His full name is August Pullman, also known as Auggie, he is a 10-year-old boy, and he lives with his parent and his sister in Manhattan.
August is a main character in this book and he is the reason I loved this book, because the story of his life is very meaningful, it teaches me many lessons in life and give me a new perspective in life. Everything in the book so clear and true, I can understand the August’s feelings, I can feel that and easy to see the things happened from the book.
After you read this book, I’m sure you will ask to yourself how about if August were your brother. In my opinion, if August were my brother, it really not easy to accept and it is the reason to change my life. Also, when you finished this book, you will realize August was very lovely and kind. He was a good boy and he always want to think his problems in positive ways. Why his parents always want to care him as well as possible? Why Via, his sister always want to protect him away from the eyes of others? Because they know August is poor and disadvantage than his friends. They know August is different and special. Therefore, you will love him as his parents and his sister. That’s love, that’s family relationship, that’s all you needs when you’re living in this life.
Because his parents know their son is not normal so they decided to send him to a private school called Beecher Prep for begin of middle school. When he was studying in this school, he meets three friends and August thinks it was very lucky when he move to new school. On Halloween, all students look different from their custom. Nobody see August and his friends say something about him but they didn’t know August was standing until they realized that August heard what they had said about him. You can see this book showed the friendship between August and his friends. It was not a true friendship because August’s friends are very mean and I don’t like the way that they used to treat to August. But, I really like the way that August used to overcome everything even when he realized his best friends are two-faced friends. It makes me remember the feelings when someone bullied me. But I believe, if you’re a good friend and you know care about your friends happiness as much like you care about yourself and you always a truly friend then you will get back everything.
Everything happened to August and challenge him but I like the way that author used for the end of the story. August gets more mature and stronger in his life, he was able to make new friends, just some friend but he know who are true friends and August accept himself for who he is. This point is most interesting thing that I really like in the book, we were born and we live in this life, we need to know who are we and what we need to do in the life. We should say “thank you” because we still can live, until now and feel lucky about it. August and his feelings are very important and meaningful, it teaches me feel the life as well and because it shows that don't judge people by how they look or what they like.
“Wonder” is an excited book, written from the perspective of six different characters in the book. Specially, a main character that most important thing in this book, August. I was really impressed by Palacio’s ability to write from the point of view of a 10-year-old boy, make relevant cultural references, and do so convincingly, while still being able to make profound points that will resonate in adults. All students, teachers, and parents should read this story. In fact, I realized many interesting things from this book, it helped me re-think what happened to me in a few year ago, it makes me know to think everything can be appear in a positive way. I think it’s very useful in my future. I can’t think of any member of society who won’t learn a lesson from this book. I think so because this book is very meaningful for people whom always inferiority complex or want to give up when they have some problem. This book reminds me the importance of compassion and to be grateful. The most important, it teaches me about empathy in life.
I know each one a different thinking; we’re not same and that just my opinion. But if you want to know how Wonder touches the heart and who are the real hearts of the book, and what happened at the end of the story with August, his family and his friends, you'll have to read the book, even adults. ...more "

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