Summary Of The Novel 'The Wednesday Wars'

Discrimination is like looking at a box of crayons and not seeing all of the colours, this is a huge problem today. In the novel, “The Wednesday Wars” by Gary D. Schmidt the Vietnamese refugee, Mai Thi, gets discriminated by the students and teachers of Camillo Junior High in almost everything she does. Mrs. Bigio, one of the teachers at the school, changed her relationship towards Mia Thi from ignorance, to a delighted friendship. I think that Mrs. Bigio changed her attitude towards Mia Thi because she witnessed the students bullying Mia Thi in the halls and realized how cruel it is not to treat her equal to everyone else. The fact that the children in the book were so disrespectful and mean in their actions towards Mia Thi, just shows you
how terrible discrimination is. Mia Thi’s reaction to the bullying was as if she thought everyone in the world was looking down to her. Should a twelve year old kid have to experience this? In the end of the chapter it lets us feel better about Mia Thi because she became friends with the teachers. Our world faces many problems of discrimination and I believe everyone should strive their hardest to solve them.