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Auggie pullman is a boy who is starting his first year at a public school.He is in the 5th grade and has a disorder. Everywhere August goes he gets stared down. Some people even asked if he wasn in a fire. When August first goes to school he only has one true friend.Even though kids at beecher prep change their minds about august,most of them bullied august because they judge august appearance,they wanted to follow julian,and they were afraid. First of all, august was bullied because of his appearance. According to A teen and a trolly reveal society's dark side people bully august because of appearance. People are more likely to sacrifice someone who was disable or was ugly. Auggie was compared to darth sidious by jullian . August most …show more content…

Then more and more people started to cheer. In science class someone touched august and they started a plague. You get the plague if u dont get hand sanitizers or wash your hands in 30 seconds. The tulsa race track was in 1921, it started when a white mob started to attack residents and businesses of african americans in Greenwood.
Furthermore most people feared of august,at school and in public. There was one time when a kid screamed when he saw August’s face. On his favorite holiday,it gets ruined by jack will and julian. They all thought he was coming as boba fett and they started to call him a zombie, but he was a bloody scream. He thought Mr. Tushman bribed him good grades to be nice to him. Jack was august friend in math because august let him gets the notes.
Throughout time people stopped bullying august,except for some kids at another school. August school went on a field trip,they stayed in cabins. The last day at their field trip they watched a movie amos had to go to the bathroom. They went to the woods they were dark and August heard something. They were 7th graders from another school,they asked what was wrong with his face. It was dark so they ran away and he grabbed his arm sleeve and broke his hearing aids. When he got back to his school they had an award assermoney,august got an standing

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