{"id":4513,"date":"2009-03-05T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philosophyforchildren.org\/the-hundred-dresses\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T11:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T19:27:00","slug":"the-hundred-dresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plato-philosophy.org\/the-hundred-dresses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hundred Dresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_I-bvyBpij2c\/SbAaEePnoWI\/AAAAAAAAANA\/fEJYm9si-pg\/s1600-h\/Books_03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309772624810189154\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 87px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 112px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_I-bvyBpij2c\/SbAaEePnoWI\/AAAAAAAAANA\/fEJYm9si-pg\/s400\/Books_03.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><a name=\"thehundreddresses\"><em>The Hundred Dresses<\/em><\/a> by Eleanor Estes (1944) is a great book to inspire discussions about the nature of friendship, the ethics of being a bystander, and questions about what moral duties we owe to others. I have used this book with students from ages 8-18, usually taking three or four classes to read it together and talk about it.<\/p>\n<p>The story is about a young girl named Wanda Petronski, a Polish immigrant living in a small town with her father and brother. She wears the same dress to school every day. One day she tells a group of students, who have been admiring another girl\u2019s new dress, that she has a hundred dresses at home. This is the beginning of the \u201chundred dresses game,\u201d in which every day a group of girls asks Wanda how many dresses (and hats and shoes) she has, and the girls laugh at her answers. The story is told from the perspective of Maddie, one of the girls in the teasing group, who has qualms about what is going on but never says anything. The story is a moving depiction of the conflicting feelings faced by someone who is participating in or witnessing something that they sense is morally problematic, but who do not want to risk their own friendships and reputations by speaking up.<\/p>\n<p>These are some of the questions I have used to facilitate discussions about <em>The Hundred Dresses<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapters 1-2<br \/><\/strong>\u2022 Why do you think that Wanda didn\u2019t have any friends? <\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Why do you think that Wanda said that she had a hundred dresses in her closet? Was she lying?<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Was the \u201chundred dresses game\u201d a cruel way to treat Wanda? <\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Why was how they were treating Wanda bothering Maddie?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapters 3-5<br \/><\/strong>\u2022 Why was Maddie afraid to speak to Peggy about her feelings about making fun of Wanda? (pp.34-35) <\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Maddie thinks to herself that standing by silently while Peggy teased Wanda was worse than Peggy\u2019s teasing. She thinks she was a coward because she had known that teasing Wanda was wrong and had not done anything to stop it. Was she a coward? Why didn\u2019t she do anything? (pp. 48-49) <\/div>\n<div>\u2022 How do you think Peggy and Maddie felt when they saw Wanda\u2019s drawings? <\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Why did Wanda move away? <\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Are Peggy and Maddie friends? What is a friend?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapters 6-7<br \/><\/strong>\u2022 Maddie says that nothing will ever seem good to her again because she\u2019d always know that she made Wanda move away. (p. 61) Do you think she is right? <\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Peggy says that teasing Wanda about the hundred dresses probably gave her good ideas for her drawings, and maybe she wouldn\u2019t have won the drawing contest otherwise. Do you think that this makes sense? (p. 62) <\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Maddie decides that she is never going to stand by and say nothing again. (p. 63) Do you think that this is a good rule? Do most people \u201cstand by and say nothing?\u201d Why or why not? <\/div>\n<div>\u2022 When Maddie and Peggy receive the drawings Wanda made, Peggy concludes that Wanda really liked them and that everything was all right. Maddie isn\u2019t so sure about that. (p. 76) What do you think? Why was Maddie still sad? <\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Was writing a letter to Wanda the right thing to do? What would be better: to write a friendly letter to Wanda, as Maddie and Peggy did, or to write a real apology letter? Why? <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes (1944) is a great book to inspire discussions about the nature of friendship, the ethics of being a bystander, and questions about what moral duties we owe to others. 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