Ready Reference Treatise: Wonder

By Raja Sharma

“Wonder” by R. J. Palacio was first published on 14th February 2012. It is a children’s novel. It was a highly successful book, and it won several prestigious awards.

The book was on the Best Seller List of the New York Times and the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List. The book won Maine Student Book Award, Vermont’s Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award, Mark Twain Award, and Nene Award in the years 2014 and 2015.

Ready Reference Treatise: Wonder
Copyright
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Plot Overview
Chapter Three: Major Characters
Chapter Four: Complete Summary
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
Part Seven
Part Eight
Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Dec 29, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311875327

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Ready Reference Treatise: Wonder

Raja Sharma

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Chapter One: Introduction

Wonder by R. J. Palacio was first published on 14th February 2012. It is a children’s novel. It was a highly successful book, and it won several prestigious awards.

The book was on the Best Seller List of the New York Times and the Texas Bluebonnet Award Master List. The book won Maine Student Book Award, Vermont’s Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award, Mark Twain Award, and Nene Award in the years 2014 and 2015.

The story revolves around a ten-year old boy who lives in Manhattan. He happens to have a rare facial deformity.

According to the author, she was inspired to write this novel after taking her son to buy ice cream one day and seeing him cry when a girl with facial birth defects sat next to her son.

It was the author’s first published novel. She says that she tried to take her son away so that the girl would not be upset, but the ice cream got spilled and the situation worsened.

The author reveals that while listening to Natalie Merchant’s song Wonder, she was thinking about the incident mentioned above. She immediately started writing the novel, with a hope that it could become a valuable lesson.

The novel has several characters and the story is told from the point of view of multiple characters. Auggie is the primary narrator of the story.

Reading the narrative from the different points of views, the reader understands the way Auggie’s entire community struggles to learn compassion and empathy while interacting with the people who do not look like them, but those different looking people have a lot to offer on the inside.

The book was adapted into to movie in the year 2014. Krokidas was the director of the movie.

Chapter Two: Plot Overview

August Pullman is the central character and the protagonist of the story. He is one of the several narrators. He is an eleven-year old boy living in Manhattan. He is generally called Auggie throughout the story.

The boy happens to have a rare medical facial deformity. He calls his deformity mandibulofacial dysostosis. The deformity is generally known as Treacher Collins syndrome and a cleft palate.

Auggie has to go through several surgeries. His mother home-schools him, but the parents eventually decide to send him to Beecher Prep, a private school, for the start of middle school in the fall.

Auggie goes to Beecher with his mother. Mr. Tushman is the director of Beecher Prep. The mother and son meet him. There are three other students named Jack Will, Julian Albans, and Charlotte Cody.

For some days, Auggie finds it very difficult to