Question

Why didn’t Maddie ask Peggy to stop teasing Wanda? What was she afraid of?

Answer 1

Hint: This story represents the issue of ragging in schools and colleges. In this story, a girl named Wanda is the main character who faced the issue of ragging. She is the one who gets teased by her classmates as she is a poor polish girl. She is different from all her classmates who were Americans. She used to wear a faded blue dress in school every day.

Complete answer:
This is the question extracted from the story “The Hundred Dresses” by El Bsor Ester. In this, a girl named Peddy along with her classmates used to raggle Wanda because she is a poor girl. While ragging Maddie asked her to tell them about the number of dresses owned by her. Wanda replied to her question by saying “a hundred dresses”. Due to this sentence, everyone makes fun of Wanda.

According to the question, we need to tell the reason that Maddie being a friend of Peggy didn’t stop her from teasing Wanda.

Maddie is my best friend. She is not right on her side because a true friend is always truthful to others. She didn’t stop Peggy and never told her she was doing wrong. Maddie wants to stop Peddy for bullying and making fun of Wanda but still, she never did the same. All of us have that one true friend who is a companion, good adviser, listener, and companion and is the one who stops you from doing wrong. But in all these senses Maddie is not a true friend of Peggy; she never advised Peddy to do the right things. She did this because she doesn’t want to lose Peggy as her friend and wants to save her friendship. She is afraid because she also belongs to a poor family and wore hand-down clothes. She feared that she might be a new target of Peggy’s mockery.

Note: The main aim of this story is to teach us that it is important in life to be satisfied with what we have. Although being content is a very hard thing to achieve, yet it is not possible. For an instance- Wanda was a poor girl but she was never upset about it. She was a talented and quiet girl. She won the drawing competition with the reference to dresses Peggy made at the time of mocking her. Whether poor or rich, talent always gets appreciation. Everyone clapped for Wanda when she stood first in the drawing competition.