Likability Post #9 (Best Sellers)

Likability

I'm currently reading Wonder by R.J. Palacio. When you first start, the narrator is noted in the front by a picture, a name, and a quote to represent either the person or the story they tell. All the narrators start out telling the same story from a different point of view. The first narrator is August Pullman, or Auggie. He is the main character, a fifth-grader, going to school for the first time ever because he was home-schooled all his life. I see him as a very likable character. In the beginning of the book, you feel bad for him, because he was born with a facial deformity. As you get to know him, you stop feeling bad and start to like him a lot. The second narrator is Auggie's older sister, Via. Via has come to accept that she will always be second to her parents, that Auggie will always be their main priority. The third narrator is one of August's only friend from school, Summer. Summer sits with him on the first day of school and they become very good friends, and their parents then meet and become friends. Summer is very likable, and a social-norm rule breaker. When no one else sat with August, she is the one that did. By breaking that "rule", she started a very great friendship. The narrator that I am on currently is Jack. Jack was called on by Mr. Tushman (the principle) to show August around the school and to hang out with him for the beginning of the school year. After a few days, they became good friends and Jack stayed with August because he liked being his friend. In the beginning, Jack seems like a really nice guy, likable and funny. Then August over-hears him making a rude and extremely mean comment and their friendship goes downhill from there. The character that you really don't like is Julian. Julian was another one of the kids called by Mr. Tushman, but was rude and mean from the start to August. He thought he was popular and didn't want to be there to help the new kid around. Julian's whole group of friends are the "mean popular kids" who make all the rude comments about August. I'm excited to see what happens with them. I want to know if Julian and Jack will do the right thing, and that keeps me reading.