Alien
Original Title: Wonder
Dear Reader,
This is a Redacted story on the novel Wonder in Julian’s perspective, which is a character that is considered a bully within the novel. Does this piece accomplish the story through Julian’s perspective fluently, or is it choppy? If it is choppy, what can be done to change it? Is there anything that can be taken out or that you would like to hear less of? Thank You!
It is time for school to start up at Beecher Prep. The atrocities of homework and cardboard for lunch are going to become a daily occurrence yet again. Mr. Tushman has arranged for me to be part of a welcoming committee to show a new student named August around, and make him more comfortable with transitioning into the school life. Woohoo, yay for me. This is going to be so lame in a time that is already miserable because school is starting up again. I am not looking forward to the role of the babysitter for whoever this new kid on the block even is.
This new student August comes into school, and I couldn’t believe my eyes. He has the most hideous facial features I have ever seen. I cannot possibly hang around with him as principal Tushman asked, or it will ruin my image with the popular crowd. I asked him “What’s going on with your face?”, as he looked like he had been in a fire or something. I have noticed Jack and Summer doing as principal Tushman asked, as despite the appearance of his face, those fools decide to be nice to the kid, and be friends with him anyways. Well that’s not going to be me.
The drag that is school continues on, and it is now time for Halloween. I am wearing a Darth Sidious mask to show the August kid how hideous his face and to upset him in hopes that he will know how unwelcomed and different he is from our crowd. Even Jack starts talking with sanity again, as he backstabs his new “friend” by badmouthing with the rest of us. Jack has come to his senses and finally realizes that this punk is not like us, and we shouldn’t befriend him. August doesn’t want to be friends with Jack now, and Jack made the right decision to move on to bigger and better things rather than being friends with August, or Darth Sidious as I recognized.
Soon after, Jack goes soft once again. He and August must have talked, and Jack feels he was wrong by saying mean things about that August kid, when he was right in what he said all along, as those things about this weird kid August are true. Jack must feel bad for going behind August’s back and acting like the rest of us normal kids and he punches me in the face as we had a standoff when he tried to stand up to me in order to stick up for August, as I guess those two losers are friends again.
I make out Jack to be an outcast to the whole class for going back to being friends with August Pullman again, as he is a traitor and deserves to be rejected just as his buddy August is. August and Jack are good friends again and are not accepted into the popular group of the class as August has not been from the start, and Jack has joined him now, as they share their disloyalty, weirdness, and abnormalities from the normal kids such as myself. I will not befriend Darth Sidious or the traitor as they don’t belong here in this school and are too different, and not in a good way, plain and simple.
It is a good thing that I am not going on the trip to the nature reserve. Now I don’t have to deal with those outcasts Auggie and Jack on a trip that is supposed to be fun with my friends. Field trips are both important academically and socially to experience in school, and those two dweebs take away from that, as they are unaccepted and make social situations awkward, even though they have definitely gotten the hint and don’t try anything on me or my popular friends, so the hierarchy is established and correct at this point. I just want Beecher prep to be normal again, and not have aliens like August with a deformed face, and fakes like Jack ruin the flow that this school had going in the social hierarchy, with me at the top with the popular group as things should always be.
Reflective Letter
Dear Mrs. Reynolds,
For this piece, I wanted to give the vital storyline of the novel Wonder through the perspective of Julian. I wanted to portray specifically the negative qualities that he brought to the table within the novel, and show how his "popularity" gave him what i would consider to be the upper hand in the situation. This piece reflects upon the difficult experiences that Julian put Auggie through in the novel, and how Julian is so full of himself that he does not recognize the absurdity and disrespect he unleashes on Auggie, as this redacted story clearly demonstrates. This propels my argument forward as it shows the risks Auggie took just by showing himself at school honestly, and the importance that the lens of popularity/social class have in Wonder.
Original Title: Wonder
Dear Reader,
This is a Redacted story on the novel Wonder in Julian’s perspective, which is a character that is considered a bully within the novel. Does this piece accomplish the story through Julian’s perspective fluently, or is it choppy? If it is choppy, what can be done to change it? Is there anything that can be taken out or that you would like to hear less of? Thank You!
It is time for school to start up at Beecher Prep. The atrocities of homework and cardboard for lunch are going to become a daily occurrence yet again. Mr. Tushman has arranged for me to be part of a welcoming committee to show a new student named August around, and make him more comfortable with transitioning into the school life. Woohoo, yay for me. This is going to be so lame in a time that is already miserable because school is starting up again. I am not looking forward to the role of the babysitter for whoever this new kid on the block even is.
This new student August comes into school, and I couldn’t believe my eyes. He has the most hideous facial features I have ever seen. I cannot possibly hang around with him as principal Tushman asked, or it will ruin my image with the popular crowd. I asked him “What’s going on with your face?”, as he looked like he had been in a fire or something. I have noticed Jack and Summer doing as principal Tushman asked, as despite the appearance of his face, those fools decide to be nice to the kid, and be friends with him anyways. Well that’s not going to be me.
The drag that is school continues on, and it is now time for Halloween. I am wearing a Darth Sidious mask to show the August kid how hideous his face and to upset him in hopes that he will know how unwelcomed and different he is from our crowd. Even Jack starts talking with sanity again, as he backstabs his new “friend” by badmouthing with the rest of us. Jack has come to his senses and finally realizes that this punk is not like us, and we shouldn’t befriend him. August doesn’t want to be friends with Jack now, and Jack made the right decision to move on to bigger and better things rather than being friends with August, or Darth Sidious as I recognized.
Soon after, Jack goes soft once again. He and August must have talked, and Jack feels he was wrong by saying mean things about that August kid, when he was right in what he said all along, as those things about this weird kid August are true. Jack must feel bad for going behind August’s back and acting like the rest of us normal kids and he punches me in the face as we had a standoff when he tried to stand up to me in order to stick up for August, as I guess those two losers are friends again.
I make out Jack to be an outcast to the whole class for going back to being friends with August Pullman again, as he is a traitor and deserves to be rejected just as his buddy August is. August and Jack are good friends again and are not accepted into the popular group of the class as August has not been from the start, and Jack has joined him now, as they share their disloyalty, weirdness, and abnormalities from the normal kids such as myself. I will not befriend Darth Sidious or the traitor as they don’t belong here in this school and are too different, and not in a good way, plain and simple.
It is a good thing that I am not going on the trip to the nature reserve. Now I don’t have to deal with those outcasts Auggie and Jack on a trip that is supposed to be fun with my friends. Field trips are both important academically and socially to experience in school, and those two dweebs take away from that, as they are unaccepted and make social situations awkward, even though they have definitely gotten the hint and don’t try anything on me or my popular friends, so the hierarchy is established and correct at this point. I just want Beecher prep to be normal again, and not have aliens like August with a deformed face, and fakes like Jack ruin the flow that this school had going in the social hierarchy, with me at the top with the popular group as things should always be.
Reflective Letter
Dear Mrs. Reynolds,
For this piece, I wanted to give the vital storyline of the novel Wonder through the perspective of Julian. I wanted to portray specifically the negative qualities that he brought to the table within the novel, and show how his "popularity" gave him what i would consider to be the upper hand in the situation. This piece reflects upon the difficult experiences that Julian put Auggie through in the novel, and how Julian is so full of himself that he does not recognize the absurdity and disrespect he unleashes on Auggie, as this redacted story clearly demonstrates. This propels my argument forward as it shows the risks Auggie took just by showing himself at school honestly, and the importance that the lens of popularity/social class have in Wonder.