"Because he's a nice kid" (pg119)!
Summer is a girl who saw August sitting all by himself in the lunch room. She saw the looks he was getting from the other children and the whispering going on behind his back she immediately decided to steer away from the crowd and sit with August. She admits that at first she sat with him because she felt sorry for him but after getting to know him better she realized that he was "fun"(pg120). She enjoyed the way August likes to play Four Square. He was real in her eyes not trying to be too grown-up.
"He's just a kid. The weirdest-looking kid I've ever seen, yes. but just a kid" (pg119).
Summer stood up against peer pressure the moment she sat with August. She didn't care what others thought of her at that moment she was just being a friend. During a Halloween party that she was invited to by one of the popular girls she was told that one of the boys of the super mega popular group liked her and if she would stop hanging around Auggie she could also be in with their group. She would have to choose. ultimately she faked having to go to the bathroom and while she was in there she called her mother to pick her up. She told the girls the next day that she had a stomach ache and had to go home. When August came back to school she returned to her place at the lunch table with him.
Summer is the kind of kid I'd love to have around. She is strong in her values and she believes that everyone should be treated like humans even if they have a special need or disability. Every adult and child should take a real good look at Summer she is the epitome of what a real friend looks like.
"Character is like a tree and reputation is like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing".
Abraham Lincoln
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