WONDER

Wonder is a book about the history of August’s life.

August is a 10 years old boy who was born with deformities in his face. He needed to have a lot of surgeries but until now his appearance shocks people when they see him. On the other hand, he is an ordinary boy who likes playing Xbox and eating icecream. It’s a fanatic of Star Wars.

August or Auggie, his nickname is from New York. He lives with his parents, Via, his sister and his dog Daisy. He didn’t asist to school but his mum taught him at home.

The book explains his first year in middle school. To explain this, the book is divided in eight chapters and explains the point of view of the differents characters. It starts whith August, continues whith Via and his schoolmates. Finally ends whith August another time.

The chapters are divided in these characters:

Via (Olivia): Is August sister. He loves his brother but she feels that his parents pay more attention to August than her and that makes Via feel sad.

Summer: She is August’s schoolmate. She was the first gisl to seat whith him at lunch and she deffended him a lot.

Jack: He is August’s schoolmate too. He was his first friend at school. He spend a short time with dubts about being his friend because he would like to be in a “popular group” but at the end he prefers to be August’s friend.

Justin: Is Olivia’s boyfriend.

Miranda: Is Olivia’s friend but this year they had a difficult relationship. She is August’s friend too. She met him where he was a baby.

There are more characters that appear during the book but one of the most important ones is Julian. He is one of August’s schoolmates but he is his worst friend at school. He did a lot of things that made August feel that nobody would ever like to be his friend.

In my opinion this book is great, funny and sad at the same time.

It makes people think about people that have problems and how the oder people behave with them. However, there are some points of views of August that made me laught. It’s a book for children and for adults and I think it helps people without “problems” to think and lern how to treat and respect this kind of people.

I found it addequate for our level so I could understood it and for this reason I think I enjoyed it very much. 

Marta Coma

The sense of an ending is novel by Julian Barnes. This book have two parts. In part one the autor write about a group of friends. Adrian, Alex, Colin and Tony. They thought that the political and social system were corrupted and Adrian’s arrival into the group disloged Alex from his position. After they finished school promising lifelong friendship, they went their separate ways. Adrian won a schoolarship to Cambridge, Tony read history at Bristol, Collin went to Sussex and Alex go into his father’s business.

Tony had a girlfriend that was called Veronica and they liked poetry and rock music. Jack was Veronica’s brother a sporting young man and Tony felt insecure with Veronica’s family.

One day Tony’s mother gave him a letter from Alex which said: Adrian died. He killed herself. That’s the point of the story.

A year on, Colin and Alex suggested a reunion. And they talked and rememebered Adrian, his friend. Tony left home and started to work as a trainee in arts administration. He met Margaret, they married and three years later Suzie was born. Few years later they divorced and Tony had a few affairs but nothing serious. After all, Tony succesfully put Veronica out of his mind.
In the second part of the book we are back to the current time; One fact, two documents that Veronica’s mother leaves to Tony, will make him remember everything that happened at that moment. And it will take us to the surprising end, with the bitterness of real memory, which will bring another person, what happened and what was not aware at the time.

Rubèn Rodríguez.

BOOK’S REVIEW

“The importance of being earnest” is defined in the own book, I don’t know if by the own autor, Oscar Wilde, as a trivial comedy for serious people. Really, it is a funny play of theater that explains the story of two men that are fall in Love with two women and all the things and lies that they did and said to engage with them. The particularity of the story is that the two women want that their promises call Ernest and the autor plays with the sound of the name and the title of the book to do a critic of the importance of being earnest (sounds like “Ernest”) in the work of these men to get his goal to get married. On the other side, the play is also a critic to the wealthy social class and their habits in the final of nineteenth century in Britain.

The play is structured in three acts. The first one, locates the Reader in the situation of the two main characters, Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrief and his suitors, Gwendolen Fairfax, the daughter of Algernon’s aunt, called Augusta or Lady Bracknell, and Cecily Cardew, the ward of Jack, who is intented by Algernon.

Moreover, there are some secundary characters who play diferents roles in the play: Miss Prism, the governess that tutores Cecily and a local vicar, Chausuble, who is fall in Love with her; Lane and Merriman, the servents of Algernon and Jack, respectively.

Basically, the first act runs in Algernon’s flat and prepares the Reader to know, in the second act at the Jack’s Manor House in the country, where lives Cecily, the development of the plans that both men had thought up to get married with the two women. In the third act, at the same place, the story ends well, getting engaged all the couples and discovering the truth name of Jack and which was his real family.

I have enjoyed a lot reading this book and I recommend it to everybody.

Jordi Pallàs Ariño