Question

What does Miss Mason think of Wanda's drawings? What do the children think of them? How do you know?

Answer 1

Hint: The context of the above question is given in the chapter ‘ The Hundred dresses’ written by Eleanor Estes. The story is about a young poor polsh girl who is judged by her American classmates. The story is an account of the writer's real life experience.

Complete answer:
Wanda is the protagonist of the story. She was a quiet girl who lived in Boggins Height which was a poor part of the town. She did not have any friends and the only time her classmates talked to her was when they made fun of her.

Miss Mason was Wanda’s school teacher. Once, there was a drawing competition in the school. The girls had to design dresses while the boys had to design motor cars. All the girls had submitted one drawing each. However, Wanda had submitted a hundred drawings of beautifully designed dresses. Miss Mason found all of Wanda’s designs beautiful and different.

Miss Mason told the class that, for judges, all of Wanda’s drawings were equally worthy to make her the winner. Miss Mason then announced that Wanda was the winner of this competition. Her classmates, Peggy and Wanda then realized that these drawings were ‘the hundred dresses’ that Wanda always talked about when they teased her on their way to school. Since Wanda was poor and wore the same faded blue color dress every day to school, Peggy and Maddie would teasingly question her as to how many dresses hung in her closet. To their question, she would always reply ‘ A Hundred Dresses’.

Note: The theme of the story is about the fact that we mustn’t tease someone just because they are different. Everybody is unique in their own sense and thus we must learn to be kind and accepting.