Nobody should be made fun of because he or she is poor. Elaborate with reference to the lesson ‘The Hundred Dresses-1’. (100 -120 words).
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Wanda Petronski in the class: Wanda Petronski sat in the seat next to the last seat in the last row in Room No. thirteen. Only ‘rough boys’ who didn’t get good marks sat there. It was this corner where there was most scuffing of feet and most roars of laughter when anything funny was said. It was also the corner where one could find most mud and dirt on the floor.
Very Quiet and Lonely: Nobody knew why she chose to sit in the last row. Perhaps she came from a place Boggins Heights. It was the place where poor immigrants lived. Her feet were usually covered with dry mud. Nobody really thought much about Wanda when she was in the class. Today she was not in her seat but no one noticed her absence.
Wanda Petronski—an Object of Fun: Her schoolmates thought of Wanda only when she was outside. Only outside the school, they waited for Wanda to have fun with her. After two days, Peggy and Maddie noticed that Wanda was not there in the class. Peggy was the most popular girl in school. She had pretty clothes and her hair was curly.
Funny Name: Wanda Petronski was rather a strange name for the children in Room No. thirteen. They didn’t have names like that. They had names easy to say, like Thomas, Smith or Allen. Wanda didn’t have friends. She came to school alone and went home alone. She always wore a faded blue dress. It was clean but never ironed properly.
Peggy Making Fun of Wanda: Peggy would always try to make fun of Wanda in a most courteous manner. She would ask, “How many dresses did you say you had hanging up in your closet?” Wanda would answer, “A hundred”. Then Peggy would ask in a teasing but polite manner, “All silk, I bet”. Wanda would reply that they were all silk and of all colours. Then before Wanda had gone very far, all the girls would burst into shrieks and peals of laughter. The only dress Wanda wore was a blue one. “What a story” they would say meaning that she was telling a lie. They would again ask Wanda teasingly “How many shoes…?” Wanda would reply, sixty pairs.
Maddie was Different: Maddie was not like Peggy. She didn’t like ‘this business’ of asking Wanda how many dresses, shoes and hat she had’. Maddie was poor herself. She often wore old clothes usually given by someone else. She felt embarrassed when Peggy questioned Wanda in a mocking polite voice. She wished Peggy would stop teasing Wanda Petronski. She pictured herself in the schoolyard, a new target for Peggy and the girls. Peggy might ask her where she got the dress that she had on. Maddie would have to say it was one of Peggy’s old dresses that she was wearing.
Drawing & colouring contest: Maddie began to wonder who was going to win the drawing and colouring contest. For girls, this contest consisted of designing dresses. Peggy was the favourite as she drew better than anyone else in the room. Everybody thought that Peggy would win the prize. The next day, when they entered the classroom, they found there were drawings all over the room. There must have been a hundred of them. They were all lined up. Miss Mason announced the winners. She told them that one girl drew one hundred &tops—all different and in beautiful colours. She declared that Wanda Petronski was the winners of the girl’s medal. Wanda had been absent from school for some days and was not there to receive the prize. Miss Mason asked the children to file around the room quietly and look at Wanda’s beautiful drawings. Peggy and Maddie noticed that particularly two blue and green dresses which Wanda used to talk about were displayed .
Explanation:
Yes, nobody should make fun of anybody for their appearance and financial status. Rich or poor, a person must be humane and honest. Even though Wanda Peronoski never wears her hundred dresses as she only wears the same dress every day, her pictures of those hundred beautiful dresses seem to say something else.