“It’s like people you see sometimes, and you can’t imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it’s somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can’t talk. Only, I know that I’m that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium.To me, though, I’m just me. An ordinary kid.”
Such a great thing about Wonder is that the message of this book is connected to the form of the book. So the message about kindness and thinking about other’s experience in a deeper way is actually DEMONSTRATED by jumping into other characters minds.
This is so smart and cool because it shows us how a form of writing can be a part of the story. It’s a hard thing to get out of your own mind and into another’s, but also a very necessary thing to be empathetic.
We often think about character as a description or set of behaviors. But a part of character we are going to explore today is their emotional reality and point of view.
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