Why Do People Exclude Others for Not Fitting In?

In the movie Wonder, directed by Stephen Chbosky, the protagonist August Pullman who was born with Mandibulofacial Dysostosis or Treacher Collins Syndrome, enters fifth grade at a public elementary school for the first time. August is insecure about the way he looks so to hide his face he wears an astronaut helmet but takes it off before he enters the school. Auggie gets made fun of because of his facial condition and struggles to make new friends. One day a boy named Jack Will decides to sit with Auggie at lunch as he sees Auggie is sitting alone. Auggie and Jack begin to bond, start to hangout after school and get to know each other more. During the school’s end year field trip Auggie and Jack go to the forest and run into some older boys from a different school. During this interaction the boys made fun of Auggie’s face and started to push Jack and Auggie around. As Jack and Auggie were being pushed to the ground older kids from Auggie and Jacks school came and began to fight the older kids from the other school so that Jack and Auggie could run away. After the fight was over, Auggie and Jack found the older boys from their school to thank them for what they had done. From that moment many different children began to accept Auggie despite the way he looks. Auggie made friends and people saw him for the person he was and not how he looks. Humans can be accepting; we need to look past what we see on the outside so that we can accept and include people for their more deep and meaningful qualities. This movie shows that even if people are different on the outside we can all accept each other for what’s on the inside, our personalities standout more than our appearances and we don’t need to exclude each other because of the way we look.

 

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Citation:
https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2121745/film-review-wonder-room-star-jacob-tremblay-plays-boy-facial