How is Wanda seen as different by the other girls? How do they treat her? you know?
Wanda is a polish girl who has settled in America with her parents. She lived in Boggin’s Height. She came to school in same blue faded dress everyday and her feet was always covered with the mud. Her last name is funny and difficult to pronounce for her classmates. Her appearance was not so perfect to be in a higher class so all the classmates made fun of her and teased her after the school hours. After being teased over her tolerance she claimed to have hundred dresses in her closet.
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