“Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” - Blaise Pascal
“It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a good friend.” - Charlotte Cody
In the story, August demonstrated the Blaise Pascal precept. He used kind words all year just because that is who he is, and at the end of the year, not only did he get a big award for greatness, and kindness, but he also changed the minds of a whole lot of 5th graders with the help of his new best friends. Summer and Jack accepted Auggie for who he was and encouraged him to do things that got him where he was at the end of the year. Julian demonstrated the Charlotte Cody precept. He seemed a tad bit friendly at the end of summer when he was giving August a tour, but when school started he was treating August in a way that no one should ever be treated. Jack also demonstrated this precept, since he was being extremely friendly to August at the beginning of the school year, but August overheard him talking bad about him on Halloween, which was not being a good friend at all.
“Your deeds are your monuments.” - Inscription on an Egyptian tomb
This Egyptian tomb precept is important to me and my life because I always like to think that what I choose to do, will affect my reputation. I remember hearing about what my reputation could turn out to be in elementary school, and ever since that, I kept it in my head. Now, I always think that my good deeds can affect the way that people look at me, just like how a monument represents the remembrance of a famous person or event.
By Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium ("my way" Uploaded by russavia) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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