Day: 15 February 2017 (Page 1 of 4)

Via is jealous?! No surprise there. I know how she feels, I too have a little brother named Nicco. He had cancer, and a lot of surgeries. I guess that’s how August and Nicco are sort of alike. Olivia and I are the oldest, which means we have more responsibility and more is expected from us.

Olivia understands that Auggie has been through a lot but at the same time she also feels jealous of him because we all need and want some attention once in a while.

When Nicco was still taking his liquid medicine, he would always cry and have a tantrum because it tasted bad. My dad would get mad because he wouldn’t listen. My dad has been taking care of Nicco and I for a long time. If my dad didn’t take care of Nicco, he would have died. My brother owes his life to our dad. Because my dad was so busy taking care of us, he now doesn’t have a job and my mom is the only one that works. Nicco complains that my parents are too strict, but he deserves it.

Via and I are alike because we both have little brothers that have some sort of illness. They’ve both been in a lot of surgeries and survived.

Via and Auggie are wiser beyond their years because they have both been through a lot and know that anytime something bad might happen to one of them. Life is too short to be selfish. Via has trouble with school, and Auggie has trouble with how she looks. Via knows that her parents are too busy to deal with what she wants, so she does it by herself. That’s why shes so independent. Auggie is wiser beyond his years because he has felt a lot of pain, well we all have. He knows if he puts himself out there, he’ll get made fun of. So he hides himself and is more cautious of what he does.

This is why I think how Olivia and August are wiser beyond their years. “I won’t describe what I look like. But whatever you’re thinking about, it’s probably worse.” –Wonder by R.J Palacio.

Maybe Jack’s quote is explaining the way that he sees Auggie, that it doesn’t matter what he looks like, there’s more that meets the eye ,Henry and his friends kind of understand why Jack is Auggie’s friend.

In the beginning of Jack’s perspective he doesn’t seem very excited to meet Auggie but when he got to know Auggie he saw his personality and he started to really like Auggie that it came to a point that Jack didn’t see him as a kid that was born with a deformed face he saw him as a friend, that’s why i think the quote says “It is only with one’s heart that one can see clearly.”

My classmates,and my teacher are reading about when they went to camp and they meet some  mean kids Jack really cares about Auggie i mean he stood up for him,he talked to those way older kids and tolled them to not mess with Auggie and him, when Auggie was crying he hugged him and called him “dude” like everyone else.

  In my opinion we will see a lot more kind actions from Jack ,we all know that Jack is a really kind, nice, helpful, caring friend to Auggie and others so when we continue reading the book we will see that he is a good friend he is .

This year I’ve been thinking about to going to learn animation. I want to how to learn how to draw them with more detail and shading. I want to animate and characters, objects because I want to draw them better so they will look good when I animate them. Why I want to animate is because I was inspired to animate by people on YouTube who post animation videos they make by themselves. I was going to use my computer to animate the characters on the computer or other things and draw them on the computer but my computer is broken so I have draw on paper like using note or use paper and flip them like Flipnote on my Nintendo DS so when I start drawing on paper or my Nintendo DS and when I draw a bit more on the Nintendo DS or paper it will look like an animation. So it might take long to fix my computer so I use something else but i make sure that i will animate and draw better by 2018.

At the start of a new year, people make resolutions. A resolution is a goal that you set for yourself to try to achieve. Or as its name says a “re – solution.” This year for 2017, my resolution will be to focus more on my time – management skills, so I have more time to read. I am planning on doing my homework quicker. Last year, I didn’t get to read a lot at home because it took too long for me to do my homework and chores and by the time I finished, it was my bedtime. From today on, I will try to do my homework and chores more efficiently. I can do this by setting a timer and trying to beat the clock and complete my homework. I can also motivate myself with a good book to read.

In conclusion, I will do my homework quicker so I have more time to read.

Via and August had definitely got wiser over the years. Because both of them had experienced a lot throughout their years. Which helps them to solve more problems in life, and create a more complex brain and sharp thinking. Each time they encountered a problem and sometimes they sometimes have a  unique response to it. Facing problems is hard, especially if you’re inexperienced, but Via and August is more experienced than normal kids.

Via got wiser because she had to deal with problems with social life, and family life. Via knows her problems is not as gigantic as August’s problems. Which leads her being more independent, because her parents are mostly focused on August. For example, she does her own school work by herself, she took the subway by herself, knowing that her parents will not be with her most of the time.

Via is very empathetic. She knows what August’s been through and what his life is like. She is aware that  his surgeries hurts a lot, and he’s being teased constantly. She knows that it doesn’t compare with her problems with her friends.

Jack’s perspective starts off with a quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupery. “Now here is my secret. It is only with one’s heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” “How does this tie in with Jack’s perspective and the rest of the story?” You ask? Well, near the beginning of the section, Jack tells us readers that he has known Auggie for quite a long time. When Mr.Tushman (Beacher prep’s principal) asks Jack to be friends with Auggie, Jack doesn’t want to. He does this  because he thinks people will laugh at him, Auggie or he wants to stay popular?  His mother convinces him to hang out with Auggie that night and he does. After a few weeks, Jack “Sees with his heart”, he knows that he likes Auggie and wants to be August’s friend. He also understands what his heart wants, which is to be with Auggie. I also think that he changes his mind because he knows it’s going to be difficult for Auggie to make friends, and that he needed someone to be there for him.

Fast forward to Halloween in the home room and Auggie sees Jack in his costume, talking to the two Maxes and Julian. Jack thought Auggie was going to dress up as a “Star Wars” character, but instead Auggie dresses up as “Bleeding Scream” and sits down next to them. Auggie hears Jack badmouthing about him, quickly runs out of the classroom and starts crying because his friend was talking badly about him and that’s not what friends do. After that incident, Auggie and Jack drift away from each other and Auggie finds a new friend, Summer. Auggie thinks that Jack cares more about popularity than him. Soon, Summer gives Jack a hint about why Auggie’s so mad at him.

Jack finds Auggie and apologizes to him. Jack tells Auggie that he didn’t know what he said and why he said it. He also tells Auggie that he cares more about their friendship then fame. This has a huge impact on the story because the characters make their decisions based around this problem for a some time and this shows that broken bones and broken limbs don’t take long to heal, but broken trust and friendships take much longer to mend. They try to make decisions that don’t hurt each other anymore, but still don’t seem like they aren’t friends anymore. After a while they see with their hearts and understand each other’s feelings.

Why do you think this is so important to the story? I think it’s because there are many emotions throughout the story, and we need to see with our hearts to understand those emotions.

-Afnaan

Auggie became wise through the years because of the decisions he made himself. I think that a part of Auggie knew that the world spinned too fast and the stars shined too bright, and that his face will never change but anyone else’s attitude or personality can change in an instant when with the wrong person. Auggie faced some of his fears already which is kind of fierce for a boy like him at such a young age. Auggie was enrolled in Beecher Prep for the first time, talked to friends his age, and was demeaned by new friends. Through all of that Auggie kept being himself and not changing, which was a good thing.
There were a lot of misunderstandings with Auggie and his friends. Like the problem with Jack, when Auggie overheard Jack and Julian talking about Auggie in the worst way someone can possibly talk about you: Behind your back when they think you‘re not listening, but you actually hear what they have said. I think that Auggie was never mad at Jack or Julian but was just hurt by them and what they did. Even if not many people realize that Auggie is really nice and caring and has a great humour, it‘s nice that his friends now still care about him.
Although, sometimes some things you do in life aren’t a living, but it sure isn’t dying. Auggie has been in a position where nobody would want to be in, he faced fears and gone through some difficult times in his life and with his friends and family. Auggie is wise beyond the years that he has lived because he lived his life as an outsider, not as someone who doesn’t fit in but someone who cannot fit in with a lot groups because of his diversity around other people.
Via, on the other hand puts her loved ones above herself. She learns even from the littlest mistakes she makes. Via is one of the only people in Auggie’s life that actually care about him and doesn’t care about whether he is with her or not. Wisdom means having the quality of experience, knowledge, and good judgement towards others. Via demonstrates her wisdom with Miranda and Ella. Miranda and Ella were Via‘s best friends in grade school, but they’ve changed and started to hang out with the popular kids, which is exactly what they are not. When Via‘s friends did hang out with the popular group Via did not follow, I think it‘s because Via isn’t those kinds of people who change their selves just to be recognized by people from a higher rank of popularity. Via is the kind of person like Auggie who doesn’t judge others by their skin colour, intellect, age, or wealth, but judge others by their deeds too.