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Wonder Characters, Setting, Plot Overview

The genre is realistic fiction told through the viewpoints of five characters. The plot follows fifth grader August Pullman as he starts at a new school and makes friends with Summer and Jack, despite having a facial deformity. The setting is in wealthy Manhattan neighborhoods and August's school, Beecher Prep. Main characters include August, his sister Olivia, Summer, Jack, and Justin. Major themes are bravery, family, and overcoming judgments of appearance.

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Wonder Characters, Setting, Plot Overview

The genre is realistic fiction told through the viewpoints of five characters. The plot follows fifth grader August Pullman as he starts at a new school and makes friends with Summer and Jack, despite having a facial deformity. The setting is in wealthy Manhattan neighborhoods and August's school, Beecher Prep. Main characters include August, his sister Olivia, Summer, Jack, and Justin. Major themes are bravery, family, and overcoming judgments of appearance.

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Genre and Overall Writing Style

Plot

 The Genre is Realistic Fiction


 The writing style is humorous and serious
 "heavy" subject, but lighthearted telling
 Told through each of the 5 characters' viewpoints

 Starts in August's Point of View


 Gets tour of school
 Enters the fifth grade
 Sitting alone at lunch, Summer sits with him
 August's birthday party
 Plague
 Halloween fight with Jack
 Pretends to have stomach bug

Plot continued

 Switches to Olivia's Point of View


 No longer friends with Ella and Miranda
 convinces August to Trick-or-Treating and to go back to school
 Summer's Point of View
 Savannah's Halloween Party
 Invites August over house
 Egyptian Museum Exhibit

 Jack's Point of View


 Sledding on lightning
 Punching Julian
 Begins to sit with August and Summer
 Justin's Point of View
 Meets August and parents
 Defends Jack and August
 learns Olivia and Miranda were friends

Setting

 Amesfort Avenue, North River Heights, Manhattan, New York City


 August's House
 "Rich" neighborhood
 Beecher Prep School
 Well respected
 Small

Wonder by R.J Palacio


Characters
Olivia "Via" Pullman

 Wavy dark hair, blue eyes, olive skin


 Smart, hangs out with "smart" crowd
 Olivia at school, Via at home
 August's older sister
 Loves August, but likes not having the reputation of "The Girl with the Deformed Little
Brother"
 Ninth grade

Auggie

 August "Auggie" Pullman


 Born with Facial Deformity
 Funny, smart
 Fifth Grade
 " Eyes about an inch below where they should be on his face"
 " His nose is disproportionately big for his face"
 "His head is pinched in on the side where the ears should be

Justin

 Long shaggy black hair, glasses


 Chapter written in all lowercase letters
 Trained in Baroque Violin, traded for 8-string Fiddle
 Likes Zydeco music
 Lead role in school play
 Olivia's boyfriend
 Met August and parents recently

Jack Will

 Asked to be August's "welcoming buddy"


 Later becomes his best friend
 Goes along with "popular" crowd
 Not rich, parents work hard
 Sandy-blonde hair

Summer

 Sits with August on first day


 genuinely friends, not just because she was being nice
 Biracial, pretty
 Dad died in military
 Won gold medal award for creative writing

Theme
What Happens
Next?

 Bravery
 August is brave enough to enter school
 Family
 August's family helps him through problems, especially the mother
 Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
 "Why do I have to be so ugly, Mommy? No Baby, you're not..."

Literary Devices/Techniques

 Alliteration
 "I would wish that I had a normal face that no one ever noticed at all
 Metaphor
 "August is the sun. Me and Mom and Dad are planets orbiting the Sun".
 Allusion
 Diary of a Wimpy Kid, calls Plague "Cheese Touch"
 Hyperbole
 "Then that thing happened that I've seen happen a million times before

Literary Devices Continued


You'll have to read it find out!

 Imagery
 "... a globe that floated in the air and a Rubik's-type cube made with little mirrors... I liked that
there were all these neat little drawings and paintings by students on the walls, framed like
they were important
 Foreshadowing
 "The doctors think that eventually he'll eventually need to wear hearing aids".
 Simile
 "The lower eyelids sag so much they almost look like a piece of invisible string is pulling them
downward".

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