In the short story “Norma” by Sonia Sanchez it describes the perspective of a character named Sonia. Sonia is a shy person who attends George Washington Highschool. She is a character who sees herself as an average learner. She needs help a lot of help in many subjects and studies hard after school. Norma steps in and helps Sonia. After Norma was done helping Sonia starts to look up to Norma as a mathematical genius and will easily past college. She assumes good things about the way she is a mathematical genius and that she would easily get into college. In the beginning of the story, Sonia is in math class and needs help. The math teacher attempts to help by showing her the answer but not explaining what to do. She then receives help