Question

1.notice how the only character given a name in this story is ms. nelson. powerful words are used to describe her impact on a vulnerable six year-old boy, one of the “sponges” that she was tasked to inspire. her degradation of his person and his future was delivered in the form of hate filled words which he referred to as “toxic venom.” how did ms. nelson’s position give her credibility or discredit her in the eyes of a six-year-old boy? answer in two to three sentences.

Answer 1

Although Ms. Nelson should be discredited because of the way she talked down to the kids, for some she is the reason why they are successful individuals today. Ms. Nelson had this young boy believing that he will never amount to anything in life and he had been embedding these words in his head since an early age. The words she said to him were very toxic to him and he lived by those words for a little bit.