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Part 2第一句话就奠定了整章的基调——“August is the Sun.”

作为姐姐，Via从小就被迫成长为“懂事的孩子”，因为先天的残疾，弟弟得到了父母更多的甚至是全部的关爱和照顾。这在via的同学生活融洽时还不明显，当她在高中受到莫名其妙的冷落而妈妈甚至都没时间来问问她坏心情是为什么时，那种内心的失落感可想而知。

这本书读得我很苦涩。人往前跑着成长时，以前的记忆就会慢慢淡化。单纯的学生时代也会慢慢蜕皮变成“小美好”，然而这种贴近真实的描写会帮你想起从前，让你想起那个时候的自己是多脆弱、敏感而无助。在没有塑造一颗强大的内心时，小孩子没有辨别能力时的从众现象，尚不具备同情心，会使被孤立的那个孩子非常的自我否定且没有安全感。没有什么比在学校里落单更让人恐惧的事情了吧~一个人在食堂吃饭？那干脆就不吃了。读到某些段落似乎体会到了主人公的全部心情，是因为我既做过那个从众的、给别人带来过伤害的人，也做过被伤害的人。

这本书让我感受到无限的温情。外婆去世前对via说的那句话，妈妈会站在Auggie门口守护他睡觉，via即使自己的学校生活糟糕却无人过问，依旧愿意去爱护弟弟，关心他发生了什么。期待后面的章节。

Words

Shuttle

If someone or something shuttles or is shuttled from one place to another place, they frequently go from one place to the other.

Eg：if I wanted mom and dad to watch me play soccer, I knew that nine out of ten times they’d miss it because they were busy shuttling August to speech therapy or physical therapy or a new specialist or a surgery.

Sarcastic

Someone who is sarcastic says or does the opposite of what they really mean in order to mock or insult someone.(If someone mocks you, they show or pretend that they think you are foolish or inferior, for example by saying something funny about you, or by imitating your behavior.)

Eg: it was the first time in his life that I heard him be sarcastic like that.

Pull

When you pull something, you hold it firmly and use force in order to move it towards you or away from its previous position.

Eg: He went to bed and pulled the covers over his head.

Eg: I pulled the new comic book away from him.

短语

1、 I had an instant crush on Justin.

2、 She immerses herself in getting August’s costume ready, since we all know Halloween is his favorite time of year.

3、 I think I probably would have used this weeping session as an opportunity to tell Mom everything that was going on at school with Miranda and Ella.

4、 “Do people go out of their way to avoid touching you, via?” he answered, which left me momentarily without an answer.

造句：On my fourth year in college, I immersed myself in searching a job. If I had an opportunity to meet an hr, I desperately wanted to use this showing session as an opportunity to tell them how prominent I am.

Guiding questions

1. Who had always been the sweetest to August? What happened between Miranda and Olivia?

Miranda.

Miranda had always been good about calling Olivia as soon as she got home from summer camp. But this time she didn’t. And Olivia found that Ella and Miranda had gotten together a few times during the summer without her.

2. Did her mom check in via before she went to bed? Why?

No, she didn’t. She intended to, but at that time August was having a bad mood and mom was helping him through it.

3. Did August want to go back to school? Why?

No. He had overheard some very mean things some guys were talking about him, and he was hurt that one of these guys was his “best friend”.