Lunch
- Not surprisingly, the lunch room is excruciating for Auggie—and since kids won't let him sit down, he heads for an empty table.
- People stare and whisper about him… as though he doesn't realize they are staring and whispering about him.
- Auggie hates the way he eats. Because of his cleft palate, he still has a hole in the roof of his mouth. The way his jaw is structured, he has to chew at the front of his mouth kind of like a tortoise. Crumbs fall out. He eats "like some prehistoric swamp thing" (1.Lunch.6).