Norma By Sonia Sanchez: A Short Story

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In the short story “Norma” by Sonia Sanchez, a girl named Sonia looks up to a fellow classmate by the name of Norma. While in middle school, Norma hated French and since Norma hated french, and so did Sonia but only because norma didn't like it. Norma got kicked out of out of high school because she got pregnant. After Sonia graduates from college she sees how much Norma's life had taken a turn and no longer looks up to her. sonia saw that Norma had four children and did a lot of drugs. Sonia agreed to meet Norma again someday, but then left and agreed never to agree again. Sonia agreed never to agree again because, she had always looked up to and agreed with Norma, but now Sonia sees and understands that Norma has ruined her life. To begin with, Sonia always did what Norma did and tried to be like Norma as much as she possibly could. …show more content…

the teacher got really mad a Norma and yelled at her, but Norma just kept on talking. Eventually the teacher got onto the entire class and called all of them savages. Norma then preceded to pack her things and leave the classroom. ever since that day Norma hate French class and never really tried that hard in it at all, but only because Norma didn't like French Sonia didn't like French either. Sonia had absolutely no reason to dislike english but all it took was for Norma to stop liking it. At the very beginning of the book Sonia was having problems in math class and her teacher was having problems explaining the equation any batter, so Norma went up to the board and helped. Sonia had mentioned how Norma was one of the smartest kids in her grade and about how she had admired Norma. Sonia talked about how Norma probably never even had to study for anything because that's just how smart Norma was. Even though Sonia and Norma weren't really friends, Norma was still always willing to help and Sonia really liked that about

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