‘Wonder’ - First Person Point of View-Essay:

Last week my class was given the task of writing a short essay, explaining about how the book by R.J Palacio, ‘Wonder’ was written.  We had to use examples from the book and also our own opinions. We are reading this book as a class, and all enjoy it!

Here is my short essay:  

My thoughts are that R.J. Palacio has used first person writing the book Wonder, but sometimes August has related scenes in third person.

As evidence to back this statement, throughout the book examples like this are written:

“I think about it a lot” I said. Pg 128

Notice how the words ‘I’ and ‘think’ are used, not he and  thought.

This shows that he is doing it.

Furthermore, if we look at other parts of the book, August tells us about things that have happened. Like when August searched for the phrase his dad used when he referred to him as ‘a lamb to the slaughter’. He says:

‘I googled it last night.’ Chp 16, Pg 43

Not googling, but he ‘googled’.

This shows that he had done it.

So this is why I believe that R.J. Palacio has written the book wonder in first person, along with third.