Book Review: Wonder By R. J. Palacio

Wonder by R.J. Palacio
At the beginning of the semester, our first assignment was to pick a book from the school library. In the school library, there were so many choices that I didn’t know what to pick, but when I was scanning through the shelves and saw a blue book with the title wonder. I immediately got the book and knew for a fact that I’ve heard of this book before. I saw that they were going to make a movie out of it and heard that it was such a heartwarming book that would leave you in tears. So, when I assigned this book I felt very eager to turn to the first page to see what it would be about and hope it would be inspirational. My first thoughts of the book were very heartwarming and correspondingly uplifting. The characters struck …show more content…
In this boy's life, we see that he has two lovely parents, compassionate sister and a silly dog named Daisy. Austin has been living the life of hospital visit, surgeries and being homeschooled, but in those tough times, he still manages to live as any other kid by playing with his dog, doing science experiments and playing video games. Having a routine was something Austin enjoyed, but that all changed when his parents asked him if he would like to go to school. Austin was not thrilled about this he already knew the children would laugh at him or look at him in disgust, but his parents told him that they schedule a tour where he can see the school and meet the principle as well. Austin agreed and there he met Julian, Jack, and Charlotte, who are students who were offered to show Austin the way of the school. That made Austin feel very insecure around them, but he was okay when started communicating with them a bit more and felt that he was one of them. In the first day of school, Austin was very nervous on what the children would think he saw that Jack was some of his class and felt a lot better, but he saw Julian would make horrible remarks about him, which confused him a bit. Austin would sit by himself at lunch, but that change when a sweet girl name Summer comes along and join him. The next, several weeks Austin is feeling good about going to school …show more content…
In the beginning, Justin was told to help with showing Austin around the school, he wasn’t really on board because it was summer vacation and he really wanted to do something else, but his mother told him it was the right thing to do. When Justin met Austin, he was really freaked out, but then he got used to it and became good friends with him. During Halloween Justin said some awful things about Austin that he didn’t mean to say it, but he did. And when he tried talking to Austin he got a silent treatment and he was confused on why he was getting this from him. So, he decided to ask Summer on why he was acting this way and she told him that Austin heard about what he said about him and Justin felt humiliated, so he went to tell Austin he was sorry. When Julian heard that Jack and Austin were friends again, he was annoyed that he went up to Austin to mess with him, but when Jack saw Julian bullying Austin he went up to Julian and hit him in the face. Even though he was suspended, he knew he did the right thing in showing that he had Austin back anytime. So, in Summer point of view we are showing a little bit on how she felt bad about nobody sitting with Austin, so she knew it was the best decision to sit next to him. Lastly, we read Austin points of view of how he starts enjoying going to school that he wasn’t insecure about showing his face to other people, so he went to