Complex sentence: At lunch, Carmen, a self-assured, cocky Latina spitfire, asks Mr. Meyers if she can skip class on Friday to audition for West Side Story, he tells her that it would just be another role for her to hide behind.
Split into simpler sentences: At lunch, Carmen, a self-assured, cocky Latina spitfire, asks Mr. Meyers if she can skip class on Friday to audition for West Side Story. He tells her that it would just be another role for her to hide behind.