Kindness - verbal/physical action that is nice, caring, using manners, respect.

Example 1: When Jack sticks up for Auggie during the fight scene with Julian .
                - Shows kindness - sticking up for a friend
                - Not letting others talk badly about friends.
                - Jack has previously not been kind, talked about Auggie behind his back.

                -  Important because - helps people make friends
                                                 - builds a persons self confidence
                                                 - makes people feel accepted / included
                                                 - if there wasn't kindness Auggie wouldn't
                                                  have made any friends, grown his self confidence,
                                                  be able to take off his helmet, feel included at Beaker prep
Example 2: When Amos and the others help Jack and Auggie fight the 7th graders.



The Importance of Family and Friendship - trust, trust of others, support systems, people you feel safe with, help build resilience.

Example 1: When the Pullamn's dog Daisy dies.
                   - Shows theme - Brings family together to grieve
                   - Show support for on another.
                    - Auggie and Via put aside their argument to look after each other.

Example 2: The fight at the Nature Reserve where Amas and the other boys come together to rescue Jack and Auggie fro the 7th graders.
 - Show theme - support because they stand up for each other
                   -  trust the boys come to help them, they don't abandon each other
                   - resilience - the boys support support each other to move forward, they are all friends now.
Important to the Story-  good relationships with friends help build trust and feel safe. He takes the helmet off.
                   - His friendship with Summer teaches him resilience, trust and forgiveness.
                   - His family are always there to support him when things go wrong at school.

Struggle between being right and being popular - being right means showing integrity - doing the right thing even when no one is watching.
- being popular means agreeing with/acting in a way others want you to, even when you don't agree.

Example 1 - when Jack chose to stay with Auggie as his science partner instead of Julian.
- Shows theme - Jack chose right over popular. Julien wanted to leave Auggie out and Jack chose not to.
- in the past Jack had picked friendship with Julian over Auggie.

Example 2 - When Summer decides to sit with Auggie instead of the girls who were talking behind Auggies back.

Shows theme - Summer chose right - not to sit and talk nasty with her friends, but to go and sit with Auggie who was alone.
- Auggie doesn't trust her at firs tbecause of Jack, Summer stays anyways and helps Auggie - link to importance of friendships.

Important to the story - the concept is relatable, everyone has to experience  this so it helps the viewer engage with the story.
- makes kindness / relationships more obvious when we've seen the persons struggles.