When August got home from his first day of school he didn't want to talk. He decided he wanted to cut off his braid so he did. I wonder if he cut it off because people asked him why he had it? Maybe he thought it would make him look more like them - none of the kids at the school had a braid. While his Mom was reading him a bedtime story that night, he started to burst out crying. He said he looked ugly to his Mom. I think he feels disappointed in how he looks, and  Hopeless because there isn't anything he can do. He probably feels like he would do almost anything to look normal. If I were August I would feel the same way. I would want to look normal to.

Every time my class continue's to read the book Wonder, I come up with questions. A question I have is why Julian is so mean so August. Maybe he doesn't like people who are different? Or he wants someone to pick on? I wonder if August will ever accept how he looks, and walk with his head up rather than down, and moves his bangs out of his face? And will he ever tell his parents how Julian hurt him.