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Wonder By R J Palacio
Wonder by R.J Palacio was the best book I’ve read last year. The story was fascinating and gave you angels that some people might not have been able to see. The book was putting you in different shoes and even though its one story that you are reading it depending on the person you realize more and more what is happening with the characters. Although it's fiction it takes into account reality, which teaches you something. Unlike other fiction books that I read it summarizes what we are as people and no matter what we do we have those faults that make us imperfect in every aspect of a being.

In the book the story as I said is fascinating. The first part talks about the story from the viewpoint of a boy who is criticized, started at, and bullied because of the way he looks. You get to see how he understands what is happening, how he copes with the struggles that he is
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This was different from the others because it wasn’t a reaction from the victim nor a reaction from an innocent or guilty person (the way I see it). Although this character was disrespectful and knew the boy from some time ago, his reaction was different. There was no specific reason why this person changed and went back and forth from good to bad, but my inference is that it was because of the state he was in now he didn’t want to change. Before the boy (victim) came to the school (which is where most of the story’s setting where it involved this character was) this character was respected, had fun and enjoyed it. In the beginning of the school year, he was chosen to “befriend” the new kid (victim). He has met him earlier in his life and he didn’t like the way he looked, the kid is deformed, ugly and gross he had said. Later on, he realizes all the trouble the new kid might face so he finally does it. After time passes he misses his old life and hangouts with his old friends in which he told them that he was forced to “befriend” the new

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