Part 7: Miranda

I was excited to finally get to read about Miranda. From Auggie’s point of view she seemed like a very kind girl, one person who never seemed to see Auggie’s face as a downfall. She was the one who bought him his astronaut helmet that he wore for two years. She called him at the beginning of the school year to see how he was doing even though things were a bit awkward between her and Via.

There is almost always a reason behind why a girl suddenly changes her appearance or suddenly befriends a new group of friends. I was waiting to find out what her underlying reason was, turns out her parents had a bad divorce in a short amount of time with not many answer for Miranda. Safe to say that’ll get someone to change and try and cop with things in a different way.

I believe Miranda just lost her way, “The truth is she hadn’t changed at all: we had. We’d become these other people, and she was still the person she’d always been” (pg 239). She hadn’t must for her lies at camp to come back to school with her, she hadn’t meant to completely cut Via out of her life. She didn’t even like hanging out with her crowd, she just wanted to escape her home life and not talk about it which is exactly what her new group of friends allowed her to do. Giving up her opening night roll in the play, I believe was Miranda accepting everything in her life and making amends with Via and her family because she really felt as she was part of their family. She missed them.

Miranda always had August's best interest at heart. She got the director of the play to change the play from The Elephant Man to Our Town.  Elephant Man was a play about a man who was terribly deformed. She said her little brother had a birth defect and it would hit too close to home. Even though August wasn't her brother, she did it to protect both him and Via. They were her family after all.