Auggie deserves the William Beecher Ward medal because he truly earned it. The medal is about a person having courage to speak up and show kindness towards others, which Auggie has exceedingly showed throughout the book. Many parts in the book show how Auggie can get through whatever course passes him, like when Jack and Jamie saw Auggie, Jamie acted a certain way that would really hurt the person he was reacting to. But Auggie didn’t mind for he knew that Jamie wasn’t the one to blame, and nor was Auggie.
When Auggie was awarded the medal, I began to think that some people may have gone and asked themselves, ‘Why him? Why Auggie?’ Well, to be honest, the answer was what the book was referring to all along. It doesn’t matter what you look like or if you’re different from everyone else. It matters how you treat others and what kind of respect you treat them with. Throughout the book, the personalities and the traits the book has been talking about was being implied about Auggie. In the interim, Auggie has been trying to act like an ordinary kid like everyone else in Beecher Prep. But the thing is, no one was born to fit in because everyone was born to stand out, and it really is a waste when something so extraordinary and worth wondering about was never discovered or encouraged to speak out.