Auggie is going to school! But how does he feel or think about the current position that he is in? I think he’s feeling a little uncomfortable because it’s kind of forced. What evidence do I have to back it up? Constant times he doesn’t want to make contact with anybody. Probably he doesn’t want the other people to make fun of him. The students Jack, Julian and Charlotte don’t make that much proper contact with August either. Auggie could get the idea that they don’t like him and can get quite uncomfortable around them.

For the crying and laughing feeling, probably his discomfort took the best off him and felt like crying. But, he laughs. I have two ideas of what is going with him. One is that he decides to hide the fact he feels like crying, so he laughs (nervously) like nothing ABSOLUTELY happened. For example he ‘laughs’ away his problem.

My second assumption is that August is laughing at himself. For instance the problem is so sad but it turns funny that you just CAN’T stop laughing. My experience is once I fell down and I started crying, yet I was laughing. “I feel sad but it’s so funny!” I mean, best way to get rid of pain and sadness is doing the opposite, right?