Explain Auggie's Situation As A Lamb To The Slaughter

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In the book Wonder it describes Auggie’s situation as a “lamb to the slaughter”. It’s an idiom, it means when someone or thing goes somewhere thinking everything is okay, but it doesn’t turn out to be. Auggie’s situation fits this perfectly from what I see, he went to a new school thinking it would be fine, but it’s the exact opposite. Even before school started, when they were on the tour uncomfortable situations and scenarios were already starting. In the text it says that people ask questions like “Whats up with your face?” (Page 29). Before the tour even he felt uncomfortable, he never wanted a tour in the first place. To anyone with a similar condition as Auggie this wouldn’t be considered a comforting question. This is before school has

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