Wonder: August's First Day of School.

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.