“What’s the matter with you, you fool? Shouted Ramlal. “I am only taking you to school.”
Then he told his wife, “Let her wear some decent clothes today or else what will the
teachers and the other schoolgirls think of us when they see her?
New clothes had never been made for Bholi. The old dresses of her sisters were passed
on to her. No one cared to mend or wash her clothes. But today she was lucky to receive a
clean dress which had shrunk after many washings and no longer fitted Champa. She
was even bathed and oil was rubbed into her dry and matted hair. Only then did she
believe that she was being taken to a place better than her home! When they reached
the school, the children were already in their classrooms.”

Question 1 of 5

Why did Ramlal call Bholi a fool?

This was because