Question: summaries Cedric’s perception of the challenges he face at M.I.T and Ballou high school.

Quote 1: “For Cedric. M.I.T has taken on almost mythic proportions. It presents the culmination of everything he has worked for, his ticket to escape poverty.:

the quote is a metaphor.

its means that M.I.T has asked a lot of the of the students trying to get into the university