Summer responds with the simple answer that she hangs out with Auggie because he is nice.
To go deeper, she also confronts them by asking why they call him "the freak" and tells them that they should stop. She explains that just because someone looks different on the outside, does not mean that they should not get to know them on the inside. It is unfair to not give someone a chance by the way they look.
When asked why she hangs out with “the freak,” Summer says that it is because he is a nice kid. She also asks those children who refer to August as “the freak” to stop calling him that. She believes that the other children are unfair to August because they judge him by his external looks, instead of trying to know him and appreciate him for who he really is.
Summer sits with August during his first lunch at Beecher Prep. This is after everybody else avoids his table. She says that she sat next to him that first day because she really felt sorry for him. She did not like how everybody stared at him and talked about him in whispers. Afterwards, she spends time with him because he is fun, and this is in spite of the fact that he is a “messy eater.” In August’s own words, he “eats like a tortoise.” This is because of the many surgeries he has had to undergo to rectify his cleft palate, so that he now chews food from the front of his mouth, resulting sometimes in pieces of food shooting off his mouth. Summer likes August because he does not care much about “hanging out” and “talking” during lunch break, like the other children. Instead, he is willing to play games like “four squares” with Summer.
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