Irony In The Seventh Grade

Braeden teased that these scenes will be emotional, as this will make Victor feel all alone similarly to how he felt when he “was left on the doorstep of an orphanage at the age of 7 by people who supposedly loved him”. Braeden went on to share how much similarities he and his character share. He lost his father at the tender age of 12 and the family he grew up in was destitute. Upon losing his father he made some life changes some he highlights resonates with his character’s sense of being alone.

there are many similarities and differences between the boys traits. so victors traits are having a crush, not very good at a few subjects, and he is a very lucky boy. so in this story Victor says he wants to make teresa his girl this year (teresa is a girl in victors class). also he says hes not good at math and that the subject doesn’t make sense. he

As the novel goes on everyone Victor once cared for are decimated in the path of his creation. "I was possessed by a maddening rage when I thought of him and desired and ardently prayed that I might have him within my grasp to wreak a great and signal revenge on his cursed head" (Shelley 103). Now, due to his unwavering lust for knowledge, all that was once good and innocent has been stripped from him. This has left him as a former shell of himself, to be compared with his own creation, solely driven by vengeance.

than Victor ever imagined. Instead, Victor honestly believes that he will be able to control his

Even though she said so many good things about his father and about things he was afraid of, Victor did not want to show any compassion for his father. It is like the story on Real Boys, Inside the World of Boys: Behind the Mask of Masculinity. Victor was hiding behind this mask so he would not show his emotions. However, after the accident, he began to think about his father. He understood that no one could be perfect and he finally saw that he really loved his father.

Anitionaly Victor is not interested in hearing about the life story of the monster, however, after begging Victor for his attention he takes notice. The story

Victor is a bright student who becomes tormented by the creation of the monster. He is evidence of the danger of too much knowledge.

Victor is the one of the main characters in the story of “Frankenstein”. He has his own ways of getting revenge which mostly occur on his own creature, although it is because of his creatures actions that makes him do what he does. One of the ways Victor got his revenge was when he destroyed

Whenever people read stories they don’t notice that the characters change throughout the story, here are a couple ways that this character changed throughout the article “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto.In the beginning, it shows that Victor is not very shy at school. In the article it says “He stretched out lazily to disguise his snooping.”( Soto 1.)This shows that he is not super nervous because he is not afraid to snoop or spy on a girl. Next, Victor got very nervous and was self conscious about everything.In the text it says “Great rose bushes of red bloomed on Victor’s cheeks.”( Soto 1.)This shows he was nervous because he was his cheeks turned red when he did not understand the question because the teacher said it in French. Finally, at the

In Chapter 21 of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Foster discusses the importance of irony. Irony occurs when something other than what is expected occurs. Irony is a “deflection” from the readers’ expectations and is used a tool that turns expectations upside down in order to make a point. According to Foster, “irony trumps everything”. Irony trumps everything because of the many paths a writer can take once he decides to bring irony into a story.

As Victors brother was killed by the creature he created, the remourse victor and his father have towards his death show weakness. Men in society are conditioned to be brought up as brave and protective. While Victors father is letting the death of

Victor’s entire life is a search for perfection; much like all the perfect objects that were gifted to him as a child. Victor’s inability

There is evidence that he likes the girl because it states that paragraph 2 when it states that “victor had liked the girl in catechism classes”. Victor had made contacts with tereza in paragraph 16 when it states that tereza had said “hi victor” and Victor had said “that’s my name”, and had second thoughts about saying what he said to her. Victor is also shy and lacks confidence because if he was not shy he would have asked tereza out already if he had confidence. The translate, in the poem “Oranges” it relates that the poem that the woman and the man who remain to not have a name state that they have a connection with each other and share no words with each other as it states in stanza 45 in the story. The man in the story started off a little shy but after a while he copes with his issue and finally overcomes it and holds the girls hand for 2 blocks as it continues in stanza 51. This shows evidence that he has gained confidence by being silent and then touching her shoulders in stanza 15 and then shortly after he stated that he saw “light in her eyes” in stanza 25 line 4. Also he finally gained his confidence in stanza 45 as it states that “i took my girl’s hand in mine for two

Dictionary of Narratology). Because if we identify the character of Victor start from his happy childhood, university environment, but since he created the human-like, the complexity of his life getting worse and worse. He tried to struggle and beated down the monster to reconcile his mistake, and went back to his hometown to safe his family but ironically he couldn’t.

In “Seventh grade” it was another normal school year except for Victor who learns sometimes it's worth the risk. Things were normal until he saw the Teresa and is willing to impress her. He first tries to ,and fails at, talking to Teresa. After Teresa said hi he replies and says, “Yeah, that’s me.” His brown face blushed.He then asks himself “ Why hadn’t he said, “Hi, Teresa,” or “How was your summer?” or something nice?” When he blushes it shows he's embarrassed himself when he says “yeah its me. ” to Teresa wishing he could've said (actual sentences from the story) “Hi, Teresa,” “How was your summer? ” or even something nice?.As if things could get worse ,he uses Teresa’s name as an example for noun accidentally when he was thinking