Class 10 English Chapter 6 The Hundred Dresses Part 2

Answer:

Mr
Pertronski’s letter said that Wanda would not come to school
anymore. They were moving away to a big
city. He also said that there, nobody would ask them why they had
funny names because there were plenty of funny names in the city.

Answer:

Miss
Mason was unhappy and upset. She said that
she was sure that none of the boys and girls of Room Thirteen would
purposely and deliberately hurt anyone’s feelings. She
preferred to think that what was said was said in thoughtlessness.
She thought of it as a very unfortunate thing to have happened and
wanted everybody in the class to think about it.

Answer:

After
listening to the note from Wanda’s father, Maddie had a very
sick feeling in the bottom of her stomach. She could not concentrate
when she tried to prepare her lessons. She had not enjoyed listening
to Peggy ask Wanda how many dresses she had in her closet. However,
she had always stood by silently and that was as bad as what Peggy
had done. She had thought that they were being mean.
She could put herself in Wanda’s shoes. Later, she even called
herself a coward.

Answer:

Maddie
wanted to tell Wanda that she had not meant to hurt her feelings. She
felt that she had to do something, whether
Peggy felt badly or not. She had to find Wanda. She had the feeling
that Wanda might not have moved away as yet. She thought that Peggy
would climb the Boggins Heights with her, and together, they would
tell Wanda that she had won the contest; that they thought she was
smart; and that the hundred dresses were beautiful.

Answer:

Peggy
had told Maddie with pretended casualness
that both of them should go and see if Wanda had left the town or
not. The excuse that Peggy thought up for her behaviour was that she
never called Wanda a foreigner or made fun of her name. She also said
that she never thought Wanda had even the sense to know that they
were making fun of her. She thought Wanda was too dumb. However, she
appreciated the fact that Wanda could draw so well. She was making
such excuses because she was feeling bad about what had happened,
thinking that it probably was her teasing because of which Wanda left
the school.

Answer:

Maddie
hoped that they would find Wanda. She wanted to tell her that they
were sorry that they had picked on her; and
that how wonderful the whole school thought she was. She also thought
of requesting her not to leave the school. She even thought that she
and Peggy would fight anybody who was not nice to her.

Answer:

Wanda’s
house looked shabby but clean. It reminded Maddie of Wanda’s
blue dress because it was also very shabby and faded, but clean.

Answer:

Maddie
was not happy as she could not find Wanda at her home. She could not
sleep that night. She thought about Wanda, her faded blue dress,
and the little house she lived in. She also thought about the hundred
glowing pictures, which were all lined up in the classroom. At last,
Maddie thought really hard and after a long time, she reached an
important decision. She decided that she would never stand by and say
nothing again. If she ever heard anybody picking on someone because
they were funny looking or because they had strange names, then she
would speak up. She did not even mind losing Peggy’s friendship
over it. She knew she could not make things right with Wanda.
However, she had decided that in the future, she would never make
anybody else unhappy again.

Answer:

It
is likely that like Wanda, other members of her family also faced
ridicule and mockery because of their long and different names.
Wanda’s family moved to a big city as
in the city everybody had funny names, so they would not face as much
trouble in this regard. However, life could still be difficult for
them as they could be teased about various other things.

Answer:

Yes,
Maddie was right when she thought that her silence was as bad as
Peggy’s teasing. She was right because even though she felt bad
about it and never teased Wanda herself,
she did not say anything to stop it. A person who sees something
wrong happening in front of him/her is as much an offender as the
person committing the offence. Maddie was too afraid to say anything
because she did not want to lose Peggy’s friendship. Also, she
was poor herself, so she feared that everybody would make fun of her
too.

Answer:

Peggy
believed that Wanda was dumb as she could
not understand why Wanda said she had a hundred dresses, even when
everybody knew that she was poor. She knew everybody was laughing at
her. Even then, she kept giving the same answer. She even described
the dresses she said she had. That is why Peggy thought Wanda was
dumb. She changed her opinion later when she saw the hundred dresses
Wanda had talked about. She saw the drawings and was highly impressed
by their beauty. She realized that Wanda was a very good artist.

Answer:

The
girls wrote a friendly letter to Wanda telling her
that she had won the contest. They also wrote how pretty her drawings
were. They asked her if she liked the place where she was living and
if she liked her new teacher. They wanted to say that they were
sorry. However, they ended up with just writing a friendly letter.
They signed it with lots of X’s for love.

Answer:

No,
they did not get a reply. Maddie was more anxious for a reply as she
thought a lot about it. She would put
herself to sleep making speeches about Wanda and defending her from
great crowds of girls who were trying to tease her. Before Wanda
could press her lips together in a tight line, which she did before
answering, Maddie would cry out and ask everybody to stop and then,
everybody would feel ashamed the way she felt. Peggy, on the other
hand, had begun to forget about the whole affair. This shows that
Maddie was more anxious for a reply than Peggy.

Answer:

The
girls came to know that Wanda liked them even though they had teased
her as she had asked Miss Mason to give the green dress with red
trimming to Peggy and the blue one to Maddie. Later when Maddie
looked at the drawing very carefully, she realized that the dress had
a face and a head, which looked like her own self. The
head and face in the drawing given to Peggy looked just like Peggy.
That is why the girls knew that Wanda liked them even though they had
teased her.

Answer:

The
important decision that Maddie made was that she would never stand by
and say nothing again. If she ever heard anybody picking on someone
because they were funny-looking or because
they had strange names, she would speak up. She did not even mind
losing Peggy’s friendship over it. She knew she could not make
things right with Wanda. However, she had decided that in the future,
she would never make anybody else unhappy again.

She
was unhappy that she could not find Wanda at her home. She could not
sleep that night. She thought about Wanda, her faded blue dress, and
the little house she lived in. She also thought about the hundred
glowing pictures, which were all lined up in the classroom. She was
feeling guilty of not having said anything when everybody else was
teasing Wanda. It was her guilt that made her think very hard and
arrive at the important decision.

Answer:

Maddie
and Peggy had written a letter to Wanda. Though it was a friendly
letter, Wanda must have understood the emotions behind the writing of
that letter. Therefore, Wanda’s
request that two of her drawings be given to Maddie and Peggy could
be her way of telling them that she had forgiven and forgotten.

When
Maddie and Peggy did not receive a reply to their letter for a long
time, they felt that perhaps Wanda was still hurt and angry.
Therefore, they were surprised when they came to know that Wanda had
asked Miss Mason to give them two of her drawings.

Answer:

Wanda
would have been aware that the other children were teasing her. She
would have known that the children intended to make fun of her
poverty, and would have laughed at her whatever she might have said.
This could have been the reason for her exaggerating everything
whenever she answered their questions.