Short Story 'Norma' By Sonia Sanchez

In the short story “Norma”, author Sonia Sanchez describes how she vows “to never agree again” because Sonia learned to never follow someone else’s lead. Sonia describes how Norma, one of Sonia’s classmates, “explained the factoring process in such an easy manner”, which reveals that Norma was believed to be a genius during her childhood, and was likely to be very successful (4). Because of this fact, Sonia admired Norma and wanted to be as successful as she thought Norma would be, attempting to follow Norma’s lead. However, when Sonia meets Norma several years later, Norma is living on the street, a “woman of four children, with tracks running on her legs and arms”, while Sonia “went to Hunter College”, which illustrates how the student everyone