Class = 10th
Chapter = The hundred dresses-1
Q - Did wanda have a hundred dresses? Why do you think she said she did?
Answers
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Wanda was teased everyday by her classmates after school hours. They used to make fun of her dress and her name. One day tired of all the teasing and taunting, she claimed of having a hundred dresses and sixty pairs of shoes, but nobody believed her.
She was a determined girl and had a great amount of self - confidence. For her number of dresses were not important but the inner talent which had the real value.
Answer:
No, Wanda didn't had hundred dresses. She said so to get out of daily taunts and and teasing because of her blue dress. They find her dress routine to be too monotonous.
step-by-step-explaination
Wanda was a girl who was a was a Polish immigrant. Here , she got admission to a school of American students. Her classmates find her name to be too different or wired. Also as she belonged from a poor family , she didn't had different clothes to wear. So, she repeated same clothes everyday.
When her classmates noticed this, they started to make fun of it. Her clothes were faded. So annoyed from these tease, she one day said that she has hundred sets of dress and 60 sets of shoes, though she didn't actually had them. Wanda lied that she had hundred dress in her closet. At the end we read that after the results of drawing competition , her classmates realised that Wanda has painted hundred beautiful sets of dresses which was amazingly too beautiful. They ended up concluding that Wanda is a good artist.
Writer:
ELEANOR ESTES
Theme:
Theme revolves around the fact how people discriminate , and judgmental have attitude people.
Moral:
We should accept people as they are because they are no other creature than another "fellow human".