Wonder by Palacio. R.J. ( 2013 ) Paperback

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At the end of the book, Auggie’s dad admits that he threw away the astronaut helmet that Auggie used to wear when he was younger, because he hated the way it hid Auggie’s face. hurt Auggie and damaged their friendship. He punches Julian and apologises to Auggie, but a war begins between him and Stars. Eleven-year-old Anna O' Donnell insists that she's been living off the manna of heaven for the last four months and no longer needs food to survive. Her parents and community seem to blindly accept the claim. People travel from great distances for a chance to interact with this living miracle. To appease any skeptics, a committee hires two watchers to observe Anna over a two-week period. One of the watchers is Lib Wright, a nurse who worked under Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. She considers resigning as soon as she finds out the details of the job, but decides to keep her commitment with the assumption that she'll be able expose the hoax in couple of days. Como ya demostró con “La habitación”, Emma Donoghue es una escritora que sabe narrar historias “claustrofóbicas” de una manera muy especial. A story that shows the impact of the Second World War and the rise of fascism on what had been a pastoral, fairy-tale childhood, with White Bird pulling no punches in connecting that historical moment to what’s happening in the world today.” — The Hollywood Reporter

Spell Binding and so atmospheric, The Wonder is one of the best Irish historical novels I have read in a very long time where facts and fiction come together to create a story that gets under your skin. Like small gods, children formed their miniature worlds out of clay, or even just words. To them, the truth was never simple. August, known as Auggie , is ten years old and has a severe facial difference . He refers to his condition as mandibulofacial dysostosis, which is also known as Treacher Collins syndrome. Auggie says he also has another unnamed syndrome, which makes his facial differences particularly unique. THE WONDER by EMMA DONOGHUE was an intriguing, gripping, mesmerizing, and a beautifully written Historical Fiction novel which was set in a small Irish village from the nineteenth century that grabbed my attention from the very first chapter. Room’ is the only book I had read by this author before this one. I was so impressed with that novel, I put this on hold at the library, the instant it was released, but by the time it became available, after a whopping two month wait period, I’d already forgotten what the synopsis was, and my interest had waned somewhat.Mr Browne is Auggie’s English teacher. Every month he teaches the children a new motivational quote, called a "precept", which helps them to think more carefully about their actions. At the end of the year, the children must write their own precept. Lib is furious. She’s a woman of science, a nurse, a person who has devoted her young life to caring for patients to the best of her ability, and she has no time for either the religious explanations or the traditional fears about the fairy folk.

Donoghue does a fine job of shifting the storyline into a well-tuned crescendo at the end. That was worth the price of admission. Although a fictional account of the young Anna, the author was inspired by almost 50 accounts of Fasting Girls going for long periods of time with no food between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. Una novela apasionante, hipnótica y plena de misterio, por la autora de "La habitación". Que quiero leer. Nos lleva a Irlanda, 1840. En un pequeño pueblo se corre la voz de que una niña de once años, hija de una humilde familia de granjeros, lleva cuatro meses sin comer nada. She has been hired, along with a nun, to watch an eleven-year-old girl who claims not to have eaten for four months. It is a wonder, but before anyone claims it as a miracle, a ‘committee of important men’ has decided to have her monitored every moment for two weeks to see if she is secretly eating.At the end of the book, Mr Tushman presents Auggie with an award for kindness and bravery, and makes a speech about how kindness is a choice. He says that they should: El pueblo parece sumido en mitos y cuentos de hadas. Las hadas son un elemento importante en la "culpa" de que las cosas estén así en este extraño pueblo, y que Lib no puede comprender del todo. Rituales para prevenir las travesuras de las hadas recorren las páginas de la novela.

Auggie says he wore this helmet almost every day for a couple of years when he was younger. This is because when he wears a mask or helmet no one can tell that he looks different. This is also why Auggie really likes Halloween. Esta es una novela muy atmosférica, realmente captura un maravilloso sentido del tiempo y el lugar. La dureza de las tierras irlandesas, la época con su estilo de vida y costumbres de la gente es lo que nos conquista en esta novela. Miranda was one of Via’s best friends at middle school. She started hanging out with a different group of friends when she moved to high school, making Via feel like she’d been left behind. Miranda really cares about Auggie and misses how safe she felt with Via’s family.

Lib’s just settled down to eat when Dr. McBrearty shows up to fill her in one some of the details of her charge, Anna O’Donnell. The girl is eleven, and for four months, since her birthday, Anna has not taken any food, not eaten at all, since then, yet is still seemingly healthy. Anna has been brought there to watch over her, essentially to supervise and report if she does, in fact, not eat at all. This does have a sense of mystery to it in that so many are trying to prove their side of Anna’s story. Is she surviving on air and water alone or is she somehow obtaining nourishment some other way? There are over 50 cases documented between the 16th and 20th century, of what were termed “Fasting Girls” in Europe and North America, even though that’s a lengthy period of time for only a relatively small number of cases, why would anyone choose to fast permanently? The Wonder is a beautifully written novel that takes place in the mid-nineteenth century in a small Irish village. It’s easily one of my favorite books of 2016. The Wonder posed some interesting questions, and Donoghue unfurled her plot and ratcheted up the tension, little by little. While I had my suspicions about how the story would tie itself up, it is tremendously compelling from start to finish, although it certainly was a little disturbing as well, because I don't understand the type of religious devotion which imbued the characters. Lib Wright was a nurse alongside Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War, escaping her own personal issues. But after the war, even for a Nightingale Nurse, life is monotonous; she is treated with disdain by her supervisors and fellow nurses, and is left to little more than menial work. But when an unusual opportunity for work comes her way, she jumps at the chance.