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“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.”-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I think this quote is related to Jack because he does not care about how August looks like. Jack only cares about what others do and think about.

I think Jack only cares about what others do and think because of what has already happened in the story; Jack said before that he was getting use of how August face looks like. He also talked about how he would rather be friends with August instead of Julian, Henry, and Miles right before he said that he regretted what he said to Julian and Julian’s parents that he would kill himself if he was August.

But Julian is the opposite. He does care about how August looks like. But he doesn’t know that August is a really nice friend.

Julian does not know that August is a nice friend because he is always rude about how his face looks like. An example of when this happened was near of the beginning of the book when Julian ask “what happened to your face, were you in a fire accident?” Another example of when this happened was when Julian said that he looked like Darth Sidious.

Another reason why Julian doesn’t know that August is a nice friend is because he doesn’t even try to talk to him or try to get to know him better.

These are some reason why this quote is related to Jack and not to Julian. This quote is not related to Julian because he judges about how others look like. He is also very rude to others. This quote is related to Jack because he does not care about how others look; he only cares about what they do and think about.

-Dave

The quote in Jack’s perspective is, “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.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

I think this quote relates to Jack and Auggie because of what they have been through together. I think it means a lot about Auggie because people always see Auggie through his face and they don’t really get to know him, some people don’t even want to get near him because of how weird his face looks. It gets so extreme at some points where they start to bully him and send him mean letters. The only people who see him in a friend type of way is Jack and Summer, but even jack was bullying him at some point.

There was a time in Halloween where Jack was making fun of Auggie. He made fun of him by saying, “Oh if I was Auggie I would kill myself” And “I don’t ever want to be like Auggie.” He probably wouldn’t have said that if he knew Auggie was there, but since Auggie came as a Bloody scream he thought that it was safe to make fun of him, but it wasn’t. It wasn’t safe because true friends never make fun of each other no matter what. Jack probably said those stuff because he was influenced by Julian, Henry and Miles.

I think this taught Jack a really big lesson about friendship and loyalty. He learned that it doesn’t matter if other friends are making fun of him because of Auggie’s facial disorder. He knows that as long as he sticks to being loyal to someone, they will be loyal back!

When they went to the camp Auggie and Jack got ambushed by these students from other schools, they were talking trash about August’s face, After a while Auggie got pushed by them and jack was there to stand up for him. When jack was standing up for Auggie Miles, Henry and Amos showed up to stand up for both Jack and Auggie. At that moment Henry, Miles and Amos didn’t care about Auggie’s face, they were tired of putting him to the side and bullying him so at that moment the they didn’t care about his face and they just stood up for him and Jack.

This proves that there are people in this world who have a heart and care about people more than their face and appearance. The quote really lives up to its name because the people who really care about anyone, won’t care about someone’s looks. This is why I think Jack and Auggie really live up to this quote because of what they’ve been through!

My new class and I went to The Robson Square ice rink! It was a little weird mostly cause I can’t skate, but I learned pretty quick. Yeah I am in Stride if you forgot so yeah! I am talking with my friends in Messenger. I made lots of new friends! Oh yeah did you know that there is a Gary Paulsen book of what would happen if Brian in Hatchet was never saved. Awesome book! It is called Brian’s Winter. I’m also wondering when is your Pro D day because if it is not in Febuary 17 I can visit!

“Now here is my secret. It is only one’s that one can see clearly what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

-Antoine Saint Exupery

I think why Jack`s Perspective is connected with this quote, because when Jack said bad stuff about August to Julian and his friends, to stop teasing him that he was hanging out with August. Jack said he would like to hang out with August instead of Julian and his friends.

He can’t defend himself because from Julian, Henry and Miles. Even though he didn’t mean it and regrets it, to say something mean about August, August heard it and felt hurt and thought that Jack wasn’t His friend and that Mr. Tushmen told him to be his friend, when he heard it August felt hurt. Jack didn’t know August heard and saw him, say that we would die if he looked like him. Julian just wants to stay popular and doesn’t care about August. Jack wants to be friends with August because he’s fun.

Jack proved to Julian that he would like to be with August when he punched Julian on the face. Julian created a plague against August and Jack. Eventually people start to not care about the plague and only Julian and his friends. But sooner his friends came to help Jack and August from Grade 7 bullies. Julian only cares about what he feels and not what other people feel. Julian doesn’t know that August is a good friend because he doesn’t try to be nice to him. August didn’t know Jack didn’t mean it and was just doing it to stop Julian and his friends from teasing him, because in Jack`s heart he is a friend of August.

That’s why I think Jack is connected to this quote.

By Lanz

-Jack: Now here’s my secret. It is only with one’s heart that one can see clearly. What is essential. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

I think Jack is very important to August so far. When August and his parents came to visit school, August met Cholate, Julian and Jack. Julian was very mean to August, but Jack was nice to August.

When Jack realized he was been mean to August on Halloween, he hated himself, thought he was so stupid, and wanted to make friend with August again.

When August’s class need a partner for the Science project. Jack’s partner was August. After school, Julian quipped Jack because his partner was August. And that’s why he punched Julian, right on his mouth. Then Jack had to stay at home for couple of days right after Winter Break because he punched Julian, and it’s just because Jack didn’t want anyone to bully August!

In these ways, I could tell Jack is a nice person.

 I always enjoy drawing, whether it’s just a sketch or a doodle. This year, I want to work on drawing anatomy. Of course, human anatomy is hard to draw, but it would be a good start practicing so I can turn it into a habit.

I have never done a proper drawing for anatomy. I always draw big sweaters for humans so it would hide the hands; I’m guessing that’s a bad thing. I want to improve, if I want to get more into drawing.

I’m already looking at drawing references online, to fix bends and positions. I don’t look at references often, but I can search up more references, or make my own. I should start practicing drawing hands more often too. During Winter break, I barely drew anything. I should be drawing more often.

Another strategy that I use is paying attention to real life. Paying attention to things around you, such as patterns, details and other people can help you. By being more aware and observant of how the world looks and works, one can really improve their drawing skill.

The New Year is a great time to work on something new, or improve something you are already working on. I will try my best this year to improve my drawings.

I think Auggie and Via are getting wiser beyond their years because the more they get older the more they mature.

I think Auggie is getting wiser because he is getting more confident in life. He is getting more confident in life and towards others because he is learning that not everybody is going to look at Auggie like his family does so he is prepared for all the hate and criticism.

For the previous years of Auggie he never did anything as daring as school. School was probably the most bizarre idea in his curious little mind, but his parents did bring it up so that meant that he had to get more confident to face all the bullies at school. I think that made him wiser because he is trying something new. Whenever you try something you always have some sort of worry or doubt about yourself but that’s a good thing, it’s a good thing because whenever you have some sort of doubt are worry about yourself its telling you, you can’t do it but the only way you can overcome that is to “Just do it.” It made Auggie wise because he was thinking of all the thought that came into his head and he tried to put it behind him.

Auggie is wise because he is also really smart. In the previous years of him, he was home schooled so people thought that made him dumb. When he entered school he blew everybody away with his smarts. People were doubting him and criticizing him like “Your home schooled you can never catch up with us,” and” You are stupid.” He didn’t care what he said and he just blew everyone away, most importantly Jack will. So I think that made him wiser and more confident as a person and as a student.

I think Via is getting wiser throughout her years because she is slowly becoming more independent. She is getting more independent each year she grows up, for example a few years back she didn’t need her parents to help her do her homework or anything, a couple weeks ago she took the subway by herself with nobody. When she is doing all these things like a women she need to be wise when she is doing anything. For example she is walking to the subway then somebody offers her drugs she needs to know that it’s wrong to accept it and just walk away.

Another reason why Via is getting wiser is that she doesn’t have any close friends that can hold her down. I think this because when you have friends that are really annoying it’s really hard to focus on what you need to do and not get distracted. I personally think that I can work with people that make that talk really loud because sometimes they make me laugh.

I think Auggie and via are becoming wiser beyond their years because of how much courage they gained and how independent they got, and you know what you say The more you grow the more you know!

” The New Years is always a great time to change and better yourself. Maybe last year, you were too quiet that no one could hear you. In my case, that would be me.

My goal for this year is to be less shy. There’s no problem with being shy, but when it comes to the point that it effects your grades. You’re going to want to change it as soon as possible.

I think that I should do this because in the last two years, I have been too shy to do anything, because of this I have missed so many opportunities to better my grades and my social life.

One of the ways I can achieve my goal is to practice talking louder and taking more risks. Making eye contact during my speeches in front of the class or the school. I can

“The quietest people have the loudest minds.”