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Wonder by RJ Palacio Ordinary I know I'm not an ordinary 10-year-old.
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Wonder by RJ Palacio Ordinary I know I'm not an ordinary 10-year-old.
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I mean, sure, I do ordinary things.
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I eat ice cream, I ride my bike,
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I play ball, I have an Xbox.
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Stuff like that makes me ordinary, I guess.
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And I feel ordinary inside.
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But I know ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds.
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I know ordinary kids don't get stared at wherever they go.
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If I found a magic lamp and I could have one wish,
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I would wish that I had a normal face that no one ever noticed at all.
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I would wish that I could walk down the street without people seeing me and then doing that look away thing.
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Here's what I think.
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the only reason I'm not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way.
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But I'm kind of used to how I look by now.
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I know how to pretend I don't see the faces people make.
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We've all gotten pretty good at that sort of thing.
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Me, mom and dad, Via.
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Actually, I take that back.
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Via's not so good at it.
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She can get really annoyed when people do something rude.
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Like, for instance, one time in the playground,
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some older kids made some noises.
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I didn't even know what the noises were exactly because I didn't hear them myself.
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But Via heard, and she just started yelling at the kids.
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That's the way she is.
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I'm not that way.
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Via doesn't see me as ordinary.
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She says she does, but if I were ordinary,
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she wouldn't feel like she needs to protect me as much.
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And mom and dad don't see me as ordinary either.
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They see me as extraordinary.
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I think the only person in the world who realizes how ordinary I am is me.
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My name is August, by the way.
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I won't describe what I look like.
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Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.
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Why I Didn't Go to School Next week I start fifth grade.
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Since I've never been to a real school before,
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I am pretty much totally and completely petrified.
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People think I haven't gone to school because of the way I look,
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but it's not that.
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It's because of all the surgeries I've had.
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27 since I was born.
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The bigger ones happened before I was even 4 years old,
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so I don't remember those.
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But I've had 2 or 3 surgeries every year since then.
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Some big, some small.
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And because I'm little for my age,
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and I have some other medical mysteries that doctors never really figured out,
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I used to get sick a lot.
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That's why my parents decided it was better if I didn't go to school.
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I'm much stronger now, though.
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The last surgery I had was eight months ago,
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and I probably won't have to have any more for another couple of years.
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Mom homeschools me.
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She used to be a children's book illustrator.
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She draws really great fairies and mermaids.
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Her boy stuff isn't so hot, though.
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She once tried to draw me a Darth Vader,
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but it ended up looking like some weird mushroom-shaped robot.
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I haven't seen her draw anything in a long time.
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I think she's too busy taking care of me and Via.
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I can't say I always wanted to go to school because that wouldn't be exactly true.
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What I wanted was to go to school,
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but only if I could be like every other kid going to school.
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Have lots of friends and hang out after school and stuff like that.
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I have a few really good friends now.
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Christopher is my best friend,
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followed by Zachary and Alex.
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We've known each other since we were babies,
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and since they've always known me the way I am,
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they're used to me.
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When we were little, we used to have playdates all the time.
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But then Christopher moved to Bridgeport in Connecticut.
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That's more than an hour away from where I live in North River Heights,
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which is at the top tip of Manhattan.
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and Zachary and Alex started going to school.
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It's funny, even though Christopher's the one who moved far away,
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I still see him more than I see Zachary and Alex.
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They have all these new friends now.
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If we bump into each other on the street,
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they're still nice to me though.
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They always say hello.
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I have other friends too,
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but not as good as Christopher and Zach and Alex were.
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For instance, Zach and Alex always invited me to their birthday parties when we were little,
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but Joel and Emond and Gabe never did.
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Emma invited me once, but I haven't seen her in a long time.
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And of course, I always go to Christopher's birthday.
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Maybe I'm making too big a deal about birthday parties.
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How I Came to Life I like when Mom tells this story because it makes me laugh so much.
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It's not funny in a way a joke is funny,
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but when Mom tells it,
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V and I just start cracking up.
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So, when I was in my Mom's stomach,
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no one had any idea I would come out looking the way I look.
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Mom had had V four years before,
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and that had been such a walk in the park,
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Mom's expression, that there was no reason to run any special tests.
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About two months before I was born,
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the doctors realized there was something wrong with my face,
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but they didn't think it was going to be bad.
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They told mom and dad I had a cleft palate and some other stuff going on.
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They called it small anomalies.
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There were two nurses in the delivery room the night I was born.
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One was very nice and sweet.
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The other one, Mom said,
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did not seem at all nice or sweet.
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She had very big arms and,
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here comes the funny part, she kept farting.
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Like, she'd bring Mom some ice chips and then fart.
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She'd check Mom's blood pressure and fart.
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Mom says it was unbelievable because the nurse never even said excuse me.
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Meanwhile, Mom's regular doctor wasn't on duty that night,
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so Mom got stuck with this cranky kid doctor she and Dad nicknamed Doogie after some old TV show or something.
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They didn't actually call him that to his face.
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But Mom says that even though everyone in the room was kind of grumpy,
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Dad kept making her laugh all night long.
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When I came out of Mom's stomach,
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she said the whole room got very quiet.
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Mom didn't even get a chance to look at me,
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because the nice nurse immediately rushed me out of the room.
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Dad was in such a hurry to follow her that he dropped the video camera,
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which broke into a million pieces.
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And then Mom got very upset and tried to get out of bed to see where they were going.
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But the farting nurse put her very big arms on Mom to keep her down in the bed.
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They were practically fighting, because Mom was hysterical,
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and the farting nurse was yelling at her to stay calm.
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And then they both started screaming for the doctor.
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But guess what?
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He had fainted right on the floor.
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So when the farting nurse saw that he had fainted,
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she started pushing him with her foot to get him to wake up,
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yelling at him the whole time.
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What kind of doctor are you?
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What kind of doctor are you?
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Get up!
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Get up!
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And then all of a sudden,
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she let out the biggest,
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loudest, smelliest fart in the history of farts.
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Mom thinks it was actually the fart that finally woke the doctor up.
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Anyway, when Mom tells this story,
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she acts out all the parts, including the farting noises.
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And it is so, so, so, so funny.
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Mom says the farting nurse turned out to be a very nice woman.
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She stayed with Mom the whole time.
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Didn't leave her side, even after Dad came back and the doctors told them how sick I was.
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Mom remembers exactly what the nurse whispered in her ear when the doctor told her I probably wouldn't live through the night.
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Everyone born of God overcometh the world.
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And the next day, after I had lived through the night,
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it was that nurse who held Mom's hand when they brought her to meet me for the first time.
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Mom says by then they had told her all about me.
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She had been preparing herself for the seeing of me.
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but she says that when she looked down into my tiny mushed up face for the first time,
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all she could see was how pretty my eyes were.
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Mom is beautiful, by the way, and Dad is handsome.
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Via is pretty, in case you were wondering.
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Christopher's house.
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I was really bummed when Christopher moved away three years ago.
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We were both around seven then.
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We used to spend hours playing with our Star Wars action figures and dueling with our lightsabers.
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I miss that.
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Last spring, we drove over to Christopher's house in Bridgeport.
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Me and Christopher were looking for snacks in the kitchen,
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and I heard mom talking to Lisa,
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Christopher's mom, about my going to school in the fall.
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I had never, ever heard her mention school before.
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What are you talking about?
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I said.
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Mom looked surprised, like she hadn't meant for me to hear that.
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You should tell him what you've been thinking, Isabel, dad said.
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He was on the other side of the living room talking to Christopher's dad.
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We should talk about this later, said mom.
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No, I want to know what you were talking about, I answered.
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Don't you think you're ready for school, Augie?
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Mom said.
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No, I said.
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I don't either, said Dad.
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Then that's it.
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Case closed, I said, shrugging,
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and I sat in her lap like I was a baby.
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I just think you need to learn more than I can teach you, Mom said.
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I mean, come on, Augie,
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you know how bad I am at fractions.
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What school, I said.
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I already felt like crying.
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Beat your prep right by us.
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Wow, that's a great school,
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Augie, said Lisa, patting my knee.
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Why not via school, I said.
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That's too big, Mom answered.
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I don't think that would be a good fit for you.
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I don't want to, I said.
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I admit, I made my voice sound a little babyish.
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You don't have to do anything you don't want to do,
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Dad said, coming over and lifting me out of Mom's lap.
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He carried me over to sit on his lap on the other side of the sofa.
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We won't make you do anything you don't want to do.
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But it would be good for him, Nate, Mom said.
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Not if he doesn't want to,
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answered Dad, looking at me.
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Not if he's not ready.
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I saw Mom look at Lisa,
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who reached over and squeezed her hand.
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You guys will figure it out, she said to Mom.
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You always have.
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Let's just talk about it later, said Mom.
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I could tell she and Dad were going to get in a fight about it.
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I wanted Dad to win the fight,
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though a part of me knew Mom was right.
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And the truth is, she really was terrible at fractions you
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この動画では、RJパラシオの小説「Wonder」の第一部が読み聞かせされています。本作の主人公、オーガストは、普通ではない自分の姿に悩みながらも、日常生活を通じて他者との関係を築こうと奮闘しています。彼の経験は、自己受容や他者との違いを理解する重要性を教えてくれます。この文章を通して、英語を学ぶ皆さんが、実生活に役立つフレーズや会話の進め方を学ぶことができます。
日常コミュニケーションに役立つトップ5フレーズ
- I'm not ordinary.（私は普通ではない）
- People stare at me.（人々は私を見つめる）
- I feel ordinary inside.（内面は普通だと感じる）
- I've had many surgeries.（多くの手術を受けてきた）
- It's better if I don't go to school.（学校に行かない方が良い）
これらのフレーズは、自己紹介や感情を表現する際に非常に役立ちます。特に「私は普通ではない」という表現は、自分のユニークな経験や感情を他者に伝えるための良い方法です。これらのフレーズを使って、日々の英会話を豊かにしてみましょう。
段階的シャドーイングガイド
この動画の内容は、英語を学ぶ上で少し難しさを感じるかもしれませんが、次のステップに従うことで効果的にシャドーイング（英語シャドーイング）を行うことができます。
- 聞く: 動画を最初に視聴し、全体の流れを把握します。
- スクリプトを読む: トランスクリプトを手元に用意し、言葉の意味を確認します。
- リピート: 一文ずつ聞き、同時に発音してみます。これにより、スピーキング力が向上します。
- 録音する: 自分の声を録音し、元の音声と比べてみましょう。これにより、発音やイントネーションを確認できます。
- 振り返る: 定期的に自分の成長を振り返り、必要に応じて改善点を見つけます。
これらのステップを通じて、shadow speechを活用しながら、英語力を高めましょう。シャドーイングサイトを活用することも、さらに技術を磨く助けになります。IELTSスピーキング対策にも役立つスキルですので、楽しみながら実践してみてください。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。