I finished Saving Zasha and am reading Wonder.
Wonder
By: R. J. Palacio
I read the whole first section which is about one character, and am on the second section which is about another character pretty much about the same things, just from a different perspective.
August is a boy going into fifth grade. He has been home schooled by his mom until this year. They decide to send him to school because everybody is starting middle school because fifth grade is in middle school in the book. They thought that it would be easier for him because if they wait till next year, everybody else will already know how things run, and they will have already created friend groups. The reason that August was home schooled was because he was born with serious face issues. The doctor didn't think that he would live through the night. He did, clearly, but has had a number of surgeries trying to fix it. People stare at him all the time and he notices them whispering about him. He is used to that because just about everybody who doesn't know him does. I assume that he looks awful. One incident that was particularly bad was when it was halloween, and you could dress up in your costume and wear it to school. August dressed up in a different costume than he had talked about because of various reasons. Well, he walked in the classroom, and some boys didn't think that it was him, and one of those boys was a boy that August thought was his friend. They were talking about him and how bad he looked. One of the boys said that honestly if he was August, he would have killed himself. August heard them, and walked out of the class without anyone noticing him and went to the nurses office with a stomach ache. The nurse called his mom, and his mom came and got him. August's sister is named Via.
Question: I wonder how I would react if people kept staring at me.
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