Comparing Texts by Ibrahim Matar https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj What similarities and differences are there in the opening scenes of Wonder? Provide examples with reference to the literary devices. en-us 2018-07-03 07:47:05 UTC 2025-12-01 19:59:59 UTC hello@padlet.com Izzy https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269328432 The similarities is when he talks about what he does like eating ice cream even though he doesn't look ordinary. August Pullman says the same lines in the movies first scene.]]> 2018-07-04 02:32:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269328432 Thomas https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269430730 Similarities:
The tone of the movie and book are the same. It makes us pity August for his problem. Although we don't get to see his face,  R.J Palacio tells us with her tone that it is extremely bad because he didn't go to school, had multiple surgeries and challenges us to imagine his face. 

The movie used the same idiom from the book 'like  lamb to the slaughter". The antagonist is the same in both the book and the movie. 

The antagonist isn't Julian or Jack, it's August's face. August's face was the thing that caused his troubles. It caused the conflict between August and other people. 

The point of View was the same in the book and movie. August is the narrator in the movie and there were multiple Points of View in both pieces of literature.

We could tell that the genre is the same because most movies have a protagonist with problems who go on an adventure to stop the problem. The movie and book is no different.

Differences:
Instead of hiding his face from US (the readers) he says its OK to look at him. The book, like mentioned before, didn't show us. In the movie, there wasn't any aspect of hiding it besides the astronaut helmet which is in both).

 The book mentioned Zach, Alex and Christopher. August's past best friends.However, there was no mention of them in the movie. This didn't give us the same foreshadowing of sadness August would've felt when losing his friends.

 The book stated that August's mum was wondering about school at Christopher's whereas in the movie she talked about in her own house. The foreshadowing given in the movie wasn't the same as the book where it was much more secretive.]]> 2018-07-05 03:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269430730 Alfred https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269430784 Similarities: Auggie's point of view and mood are the same.
He's also ashamed of his face. This also tells us that he doesn't want to go to school as everyone can relate to that.
The movies is the same as the book due to the idioms used in both the same conversation: ''Taking a lamb to a slaughter.''
The Tone is also the same as RJ Palacio challenges us to imagine his face and his life as the book states: Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.
Other similarities is that Auggie in book and movie  used the same  SIMPLE sentences:
I like: ''I eat ice cream''

Differences:  Auggie is okay of us looking at his face in the movie yet in the book, he wouldn't tell us about his face.
The movie didn't state that he was sad that all his friends had moved.
This means that they never existed and only had his family.
The book also never stated having star wars fights and driving Via crazy thus allows me to assume that he has complete respect and maturity to his parents.
Foreshadowing isn't used very often. For this reason, I can assume that August isn't giving anyone a hint to his face.
Auggie did not state in the book that he liked sport on his Xbox allowing me to assume he was SUPER embarrassed about his 
exterior, not his ordinary interior.




]]> 2018-07-05 03:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269430784 Losa https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269430836 Similarities:Auggie says the same thing in the beginning of the movie.He talks about how his face is and how people look at him ,he can still do the same things as other kids but he says that he isn't like any other ordinary kid.
Differences:
He tells people that its ok to look at his face already knowing what they thing about his face.
Point of views:
The point of views are exactly like the book but a little bit, in the movie The characters show more emotions and actions about everything that's going on.


]]> 2018-07-05 03:08:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269430836 Julia julia_wang https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269430973 Differences: 
The movie seemed more straight forward than the book, mainly because there is a voice explaining their life, like a storyteller, opening into someone else's life. The story felt more realistic, with an actual appearance to notice his personality. Rather in the book, you can't tell his persona traits if he is being straight forward, or if he is just finishing his sentences quickly, not wanting to talk. The book didn't seem to have much life in it, whilst the movie showed his personal life in a way his bedroom is decorated, or how he dresses. 

In the book, it shows neither. With Auggie's voice, it sounds like actual murmurs, knowing what he sounds like. Through the murmurs we can tell Auggie's intentions, example;
Perhaps not wanting to socialize with people. 
In the story, it doesn't say
"I'm wearing an astronaut helmet" or "I like astronomy", with an actual animation, we can basically tell what he is like without explaining many things.

Noticeably in the movie, it doesn't explain everything unlike in the opening page of Auggie's perspective. With Auggie's perspective in the book, we can only know what Auggie writes down, not everything, because Auggie didn't notice it himself. While in the movie, we hear everything, not just August's thoughts. 

Despite it only being a character's perspective in a movie with sections, it still shows other people's perspective a bit more since it isn't as much as a diary entry.

August's old friends, since there isn't any flashbacks, just a present perspective, like said, not a diary entry.

Mostly, the book and movie explain scenes much differently. The book would provide 'Paint a picture in the person's mind!", whereas the Movie gives a much more visual look.

The book doesn't show any background characters, since August doesn't know those people, but the movie would show them, since it is visual.

Similarites:
Both the book and movie has similar quotes, 

"I play ball"
"I eat ice cream" 
etc

Auggie still has the same intentions in both the book and movie. In perspective, both show clearly, the character's role in the story, a protagonist, antagonist or a supporting character.]]> 2018-07-05 03:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269430973 MARK M https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431076 One of the biggest Similarities is the opening scenes when he says" i'm not an ordinary
 kid"]]> 2018-07-05 03:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431076 Alanna L :) https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431188 Differences & Similarities:
Page 3-14: Firstly, the lines are in the first few minutes in the movie. Except for the line "But I know ordinary kids don't make other kids scream in playgrounds." that line is said after August(Jacob Tremblay) explains about his family, his broth and his love of Star Wars.

In the Movie, they cut out some important lines. Or some lines from the book. As an example, "if I had a magic lamp, if I had one wish...I'd wish I had a normal face that no one would notice at all."

August used a simile.

While I think that line was replaced with "I've had 20 surgeries. They've helped to to see, eat breath - but none of them had made me look ordinary."

Another line I remember is "next week, I start fifth grade, since I;ve never been to a real school before, I'm pretty much totally and completely petrified." that line is the same as the movie and book.

The beginning of the movie explains "I can't homeschool him forever!"
August in the book explains in a simple line: Mom homeschools me.

Another difference is he explains his old friendships, which meant he was capable of making friends in the book, meanwhile in the movie he seemed insecure. I guess August's olds friends(Alex, Zachary and Christopher) were used to him. In the movie it doesn't explain his old friendships.
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On page 6, it explains how Auggie's birth was hilarious in ways and how it'd crack him up everytime his mum talked about it. Also Via.
Within the very first minutes of the movie it explains the birth.
This is out of order. It's difference sequence compared to the book. They(Stephen Chbosky, Director & 20th Century FOX studios) wanted to open up how Auggie really is different.
In the book, page 8-14, they talk about Auggie's school in a car, rather than at home, like they did in the film.

They explain about the IQ test. The Principal's name. Yet, the last line of page 14 which made me think "Who's Mr Tushman?" Via asked, groggily. She just woke up.
"The new Principal at my new school," I answered.

Did Auggie actually accept the fact about his new school? Haha, Foreshadowing. The classic, this line confirms - but briefly- confirms that Auggie shall accept his new school.

[The thing about the book and film is that they both won Award/s. The book won many awards, I'll just pull one out. 10 Great Kids' Books

 ]]> 2018-07-05 03:10:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431188 Petra https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431252 Similarities: His mood in the beginning was  quiet and when he went to school the first place he 
was still quiet.

These moods are comparing with the idea of similarities and differences I see those two words by thinking about the moods.

Differences: Like I said he was quiet at the first place but when he made friends and stayed a bit longer at school Auggie is getting used to the place and his friends so he started to change and not to care too much about his face because he got the hang of staying there until it is hometime where he had to go home so Auggie moods change from quiet to speak out. "You can't blend in when you're born to stand out".]]> 2018-07-05 03:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431252 Doris https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431293 2018-07-05 03:12:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431293 Wesley https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431298 Similarities:
In the introduction of book and movie they both have the same lines, " I mean sure, i do normal things . I eat ice cream. I ride my bike. I have an XBox."
Auggie's dad said the same idiom/simile in the movie and book "Lamb to the slaughter"

Differences:
Auggie had old friends Christopher, Zachary and Alex. Auggie is still friends with Christopher but they live a far away, Zachary and Alex started school and they met new friends.
On the way back home when the Pullman family was visiting Christopher's house, Auggie's parents were talking about August going to school. ]]> 2018-07-05 03:12:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431298 Angeline G https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431306 The movie includes the intro in the book, How august explains how he feels ordinary. The movie still makes the audience feel sympathetic to auggie, however, a chunk of important details are missing from the book, like via's protective nature around auggie, his history with Christopher, Zachary and Alex. Even the chapter when auggie retells his birth is more detailed than the film. The movie zooms past all of auggies past, instead, focusing on his school and current life.]]> 2018-07-05 03:12:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431306 lukas https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431311 similierties:
we both felt sorry for auggie at the start and to page 14.the mood and tone is also the same because it's very happy and bright.the protaganist is auggie because the book/movie is based on him and his face


diffrences:
the diffrence is when auggie starts school we start to feel sorry for him when hge starts school.also when auggie starts school an antagonist comes in the story and that's julian. julian is against auggie so that makes julian the antagonist.julian is the antagonist because he bullies auggie and he is against him and his face.]]> 2018-07-05 03:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431311 Justin https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431314 Similarities:
On the book and the movie Auggie says something on the beginning of the movie/book. 

The book and the movie also have the same enemies and also it says in the book that also said on the movie that he has 27 surgeries.

 In the movie it also said the chapters and the same orders like on the book. They also have the same characters like in the book and the movie.

Difference:
On the beginning the book didn't tell the setting of the first part of the movie. 

The book told that Alex, Christopher and Zach were Auggie's past friends however it didn't say it in the movie.

Auggie is still friends with Christopher however the live far away from each other.




]]> 2018-07-05 03:12:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431314 Aiden https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431336 Similarities: One similarity is that they repeat the first line of the book saying he's ordinary but not by his looks

Differences: One difference  is that they say he like minecraft and he's good at sport on his Xbox. 

There are differences between the book and the movie because the original starts with the book in Palacio way of writing whereas a movie director would want their movie to be exciting and not like the book where it is in different perspectives and not like how they only say their part of the story. ]]> 2018-07-05 03:12:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431336 Rio https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431458 Similarities:
The first 2 pages Auggie talked about how different he is to everyone else around him because he was born differently and had 27 surgeries.

Differences:
August said in the beginning "I'm not an ordinary kid" which makes him way different to anyone in the book because of his face not being ordinary to anyone.August may look different to everyone but he does what EVERY kid does like eat ice cream,play on his Xbox and ride his bike.

Point Of View:
Auggie's point of view is different to everyone else's view because he is talking about how hard his life is when he had 27 surgeries and everyone teasing him.The other points of view are not talking about their young life but are talking about their life right now.



]]> 2018-07-05 03:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431458 Angelin https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431490 Similarities:
  Auggie's mood & point of view are the same. In the beginning Auggie starts off as the narrator of his part he starts off as ' I'm not a ordinary 10 year old kid. I mean sure, I do ordinary things.I eat ice cream. I ride my bike......' and so on he the later he talks about his birth and so on.

Differences:
not many thing are different but some Dialogue are a bit different.]]> 2018-07-05 03:15:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431490 Vaia https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431514 similarities:

In the book you  know that he is thinking to himself  and what things makes  him ordinary. Then when he hears his parents talking they say ' lamb to slaughter'. he is really smart but he doesn't seem to show it out until someone asks him or he is nervous at first. 

Differences: 

he introduces his family but he didn't say that Via wasn't good at pretending that he wasn't normal. she even said in the book 'What the heck are you looking at' but in the movie you can't quite see that.]]> 2018-07-05 03:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431514 Jayden and Landros https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431553 Similarities:
When the movie starts off it shows Auggie and they tell you about the things that he believes make him ordinary. As it says in the movie " Well ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away in the park." It also says in the book and movie that " If I could find a magic lamp and I only had one wish I would fish I had a normal face.'
Differences:
The book tells us that Auggie before had friends, but in the movie they didn't mentioned them. During the birth scene in the book Auggie's mum said the nurse kept on farting, but in the movie the the nurse didn't fart during Auggie's birth. In the book they said" Lamb to the slaughter." But in the movie it didn't have that sence ]]> 2018-07-05 03:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431553 Liv https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431700 The book and movie both start off with Auggie narrating about how he believes how he's really like everybody else and does similar things to everyone else. Except, the movie doesn't actually have as much details as the book, in the book includes things such as his love for Star Wars, his surgeries, his struggles in his everyday life, birth etc. Instead, in the book, it's just a few different scenes which last a few seconds of those different things. The book got into much more detail however the movie is more straight forward. Auggie's mood and point of view are really just the same in the book and movie. The movie makes the audience/readers feel really sympathetic for him but it misses really important details that helps make the readers feel more sympathetic for Auggie and helps the readers understand why things are like what they are. An example is Auggie's old best friends and his history with friendships with Christopher, Alex and Zachary. He's still friends with Christopher but they live far away from each other and they rarely see each other like before. He has slowly drifted away from Alex and Zachary. The book also made you visualise it yourself and doesn't really show you background information like what Auggie's bedroom looks, what Julian, Amos and Miles look like; what they visually did to Auggie; in that case the movie actually has more details.]]> 2018-07-05 03:18:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431700 Ryan https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431985 Similarities:
The book and movie both start of with I know i'm not an ordinary 10 year old kid and that he does ordinary things like eat ice-cream, riding his bike, playing sport or having an Xbox

Differences:
The beginning is much shorter than the one in the book. When August was in the car, in the book they then said Lamb to Slaughter but in the movie they are in their bedroom when the father says it. That difference is called setting.]]> 2018-07-05 03:22:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269431985 Andrew https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269432465 Difference: August says that he is an ordinary by eating ice cream, play xbox and ride a bike but he don't have a ordinary face from others and haves 27 surgerys

 ]]> 2018-07-05 03:29:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269432465 Calvin calvin_itula https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269432757 Simularities:
Both the Movie and the novel, had about 70% of the same dialougue. Now for simularity no. 1.

No.1:
In chapter 1, Ordinary, it states:  ]]> 2018-07-05 03:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269432757 Sesilia: https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269432920 Similarities: 

]]> 2018-07-05 03:35:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269432920 Okej https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269432925
Sim]]> 2018-07-05 03:35:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269432925 Angelina https://padlet.com/ibrahim_matar95/ikbml2m982kj/wish/269433380 Differences:
In the book it’s says “the camera dropped into a million pieces…” but in the movie it doesn’t show any camera dropping. In the book it says there was a midwife who was farting the whole time but in the movie it also doesn’t show that sene. In the book Summer was the first person who  made friends with Auggie but in the movie it is jack who made friends first. Also in the book Auggie goes to summers house but in the movie Auggie doesn’t. In the book Summer goes to someone's party and in the movie she doesn't. In  the book  Auggie gets hearing aids but in the movie he doesn’t. In the book it shows Auggie walking up for camp but in the movie it doesn’t. the movie also missed on


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