Ramona is quite the precocious young lady, kindergartner in fact. She has waited years and years to participate in the school Halloween parade. When, at last, she gets to be participant instead of spectator, she asks her mother to find the scariest, most gruesome witch mask EVER.
With mask on, Ramona heads gleefully off to school the morning of the parade only to discover, (there must have been some kind of great sale at the local K-Mart), a dozen other kids with the same horrifying mask running around. Ramona was mischievous to the boy she liked, pulled Susan's boing-y curls, and even messed with the beloved Miss Binney (teacher).
But, being a little naughty wasn't any fun because NO ONE knew who she was. Ramona began to wonder if even her own mother would know which witch was the baddest witch. To quote Cleary,
"The feeling was the scariest one Ramona had ever experienced. She felt lost inside her costume....What if everyone in the whole world forgot her?"
This was the point in the story where Ramona ripped off her mask and felt incredibly relieved to hear Miss Binney call out her name to join the parade. Ramona ended up with her class, but not without running back inside to quickly label her witch's hat with her name (in masking tape).
This chapter illustrates an important lesson. There are so many masks in life and the more we disguise ourselves, the more comfortable we become in some kind of foreign world. Anonymity is too easy to claim.
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"To be what God intended you to be as a woman depends on the way you think,
believe, dress, and conduct yourselves as true examples of Latter-day Saint womanhood,
examples of that for which you were created and made. "
