Heartwarming / Wonder (2012)

• The whole movie as Auggie makes friends and gets through the fifth grade.
• Despite initially bonding with Via over allegedly both being only children, Justin is quick to forgive her when he learns the truth.
• A small one, but the exchange between Jack and his mom.
  Jack: I'm a bad egg!
  Jack's Mom: You're a good egg.
• Jack apologizing to Auggie for teasing him on the Minecraft server.
• Just Jack and Auggie's entire friendship montage, since it's abundantly clear how much this new friendship means to Auggie and how it makes him start truly enjoying going to school after having been lonely the entire time. It also begins with Jack making Auggie feel better about the way he eats by also eating messily, causing the two of them to burst out laughing.
• In the movie, when two teachers break up the fight between Jack and Julian, Jack seems to realise what he's done and turns into Mr Browne's chest, crying. Mr Browne holds on to him, probably breaking school rules but just wanting to comfort a crying child.
  • Also, Mr Tushman's response to Jack's letter claiming responsibility for the fight.
• Julian apologizing for his actions to Mr. Tushman in the movie and clapping for Auggie in the graduation ceremony. In the book he didn't feel remorse until the summer and skipped the graduation ceremony.
• At the start of the movie, Auggie constantly wears an astronaut helmet to hide his face, until it mysteriously goes missing. Just before graduation, his father confesses to hiding it.

  Nate: You have to understand, you were wearing it all the time. I never got to see you anymore. I missed your face! I know you don't always like it, but I love it. It's my son's face.

  • In the book, this exchange goes a little bit differently:
    "Come on, Auggie, please try to understand," he continued, putting his hand under my chin and turning my face towards him. "You were wearing that helmet all the time. And the real, real, real, real truth is: I missed seeing your face, Auggie. I know you don't always love it, but you have to understand...I love it. I love this face of yours, Auggie, completely and passionately. And it kind of broke my heart that you were always covering it up."
• Just how close Via and Auggie are. Of course they have the typical sibling spats but it's made clear that Auggie values his sister's advice and Via doesn't resent her little brother for taking up most of their parents' attention. The movie even mentions and shows a child Via wishing for a baby brother on her birthday.
  • One excerpt from Via's chapter mentions that she got a baby doll as a little girl to practise being a big sister, whom she adored. Once she met Auggie, after an initial moment of confusion, within a day she had forgotten all about the doll.

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