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Sonia Sanchez's Short Story 'Norma'
In the short story “Norma” by Sonia sanchez describes young Sonia at George Washington high school in alabama. The story starts off with Sandra in her math class asking for help and her teacher assigns a classmate named Norma to help her. Sandra is a good student. She gets good grades but never really understands the topics. She doesn't think very highly of herself. Norma is a math genius in Sonia’s eyes. She wears dresses with petticoats underneath every day to class. She was fluent in French with an amazing accent. Sonia liked french with Norma till the incident happened. One day in French as Norma was speaking French with the teacher. Sonia and some other girls were talking about the french teachers arched back and making fun of it. This
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