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

Miss Mason appreciated Wanda’s drawings as she admired her creativity. The children were also surprised to see her hundred drawings with each drawing having an exquisite and unique design. When Miss Mason announced Wanda’s name as the winner, they stopped to look at them and whistled loudly giving her drawings a big round of applause.


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How does Wanda Feel about the dresses game? Why does she say that she has a hundred dresses?

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Why does Maddie stand by and not do anything? How is she different from Peggy? (Was Peggy’s friendship important to Maddie? Why? Which lines in the text tell you this?)

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look at these sentences

(a) She sat in the corner of the room where the rough boys who did not make good marks sat, the corner of the room where there was most scuffling of feet…


(b) The time when they thought about Wanda was outside the school hours….These clauses help us to identify a set of boys, a place, and a time. They are answers to the questions ‘What kind of rough boys?’ ‘Which corner did she sit in’? And ‘What particular time outside of school hours?’ They are ‘defining’ or ‘restrictive’ relative clauses. (Compare them with the nondefining relative clauses discussed in Unit-1)


Combine the following to make sentences like those above.


1. This is the bus (What kind of bus?) It goes to Agra. (Use which or that)


2. I would like to buy (a) shirt (which shirt?). (The) shirt is in the shop window. (use which or that)


3. You must break your fast at a particular time. (when?). You see the moon in the sky. (use when)


4. Find a word (what kind of word). It begins with the letter Z. (use which or that)


5. Now find a person (what kind of person?). His or her name begins with letter Z. (use whose).


6. Then go to a place (What place?). There are no people whose name begins with Z in that place. (use where)

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The narrative voice.

This story is in the ‘third person’ that is, the narrator is not a participant in the story. But the narrator often seems to tell the story from the point of view of one of the characters in the story. For example, look at the Italianized words in the sentences.


Thank goodness, she did not live up on Boggins Heights or have a funny name.


Whose thoughts do the words ‘Thank goodness’ express? Maddie’s, who is grateful that although she is poor, she is yet not as poor as Wanda, or as ‘different’. (So she does not get teased; she is thankful about that.)


A. Here are two other sentences from the story. Can you say whose point of view the italicized words express?


(i) But on Wednesday, Peggy and Maddie, who sat down front with other children who got good marks and who didn’t track in a whole lot of mud, did notice that Wanda wasn’t there.

(ii) Wanda Petronski. Most of the children in Room Thirteen didn’t have names like that. They had names easy to say, like Thomas, Smith or Allen.