Answer:
She wanted to know how to deal with her problems.
Step-by-step explanation:
In paragraph five, Rachel would have had the wisdom
to handle the situation with Mrs. Price. She says “if I
was one hundred and two I’d have known what to say
when Mrs. Price put the red sweater on my desk”.
In the last paragraph, Rachel wants the red sweater
incident to be far in the past, “far away like a runaway
balloon, like a tiny o in the sky, so tiny-tiny you have to
close your eyes to see it”