Explanation: The punctuation rules for a sentence don't apply to statements between parentheses within a sentence; that is why in the first option, the first word in the parentheses should not have been capitalized, and in the third option, there shouldn't be a period after the last word in the parentheses.
August Pullman, a 6th grader with a facial disorder. It’s his first year of middle school at Beecher middle school. Not many people were interested in being friends with a “freak”, as they called him.
