{"id":5298,"date":"2017-02-15T11:37:05","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T19:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/?p=5298"},"modified":"2017-02-15T11:37:05","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T19:37:05","slug":"blog-9-jacks-perspective-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/2017\/02\/15\/blog-9-jacks-perspective-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog #9: Jack\u2019s Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jack\u2019s perspective starts off with a quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupery. <\/span> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNow here is my secret. It is only with one\u2019s heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.\u201d<\/span><\/i> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cHow does this tie in with Jack\u2019s perspective and the rest of the story?\u201d 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\u2019s principal) asks Jack to be friends with Auggie, Jack doesn&#8217;t want to. He does this &nbsp;because he thinks people will laugh at him, Auggie or he wants to stay popular? &nbsp;His mother convinces him to hang out with Auggie that night and he does. After a few weeks, Jack \u201cSees with his heart\u201d, he knows that he likes Auggie and wants to be August\u2019s 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\u2019s going to be difficult for Auggie to make friends, and that he needed someone to be there for him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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 \u201cStar Wars\u201d character, but instead Auggie dresses up as \u201cBleeding Scream\u201d 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\u2019s 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\u2019s so mad at him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jack finds Auggie and apologizes to him. Jack tells Auggie that he didn\u2019t 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\u2019t take long to heal, but broken trust and friendships take much longer to mend. They try to make decisions that don\u2019t hurt each other anymore, but still don\u2019t seem like they aren\u2019t friends anymore. After a while they see with their hearts and understand each other\u2019s feelings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why do you think this is so important to the story? I think it\u2019s because there are many emotions throughout the story, and we need to see with our hearts to understand those emotions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>-Afnaan<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack\u2019s perspective starts off with a quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupery. \u201cNow here is my secret. It is only with one\u2019s heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.\u201d \u201cHow does this tie in with Jack\u2019s perspective and the rest of the story?\u201d You ask? Well, near the beginning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5303,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5298\/revisions\/5303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}