Summary Of Seventh Grade By Gary Soto

First, he didn’t have rules and policies or it was not mentioned in the story. Second, Victor was trying to impress someone that he had a crush on. Third, victor and seven classes. Also, he takes French class and he got to choose an elective for a class. Victor, got to choose witch language class like Spanish of French. Also, Victor had a crush on this girl he knew from catechism. He made a secret handshake with his friends. Victor thinks he will like 7th grade!

As in all stories and articles of literature, the short stories “Seventh Grade” and “The Melting Pot”, written by Gary Soto and Anna Quindlen have a conflict. A conflict is a problem between anything or anyone. There are multiple types of conflicts. In these stories particularly, there are internal and external conflicts. An internal conflict in presented in “Seventh Grade”. An internal conflict is a problem between a person and him/herself. An external conflict is a conflict between someone and an outside force. This aspect is shown in “The Melting Pot” several times. All stories have a conflict, but do these conflicts all have winners?

The two short stories, “The School Play”, written Gary Soto and ”Eleven” written by Sandra Cisneros develop the topic of school problems. In both of these stories, the main characters deal with their problems differently. Also, the main characters have a very different individuality. The theme of these two stories is that the people at school can affect what people think, feel, and do. Even though these two stories very different they are also alike.

In Gary Soto's story Seventh Grade, the protagonist is going back to school and it is the first day. The story’s main character, Victor, makes goals for himself at school. Not only does he want to be a good student, but Victor also faces the conflict that he likes a girl named Teresa which he can’t even talk to. In the beginning of the story, Victor tries to impress her by doing math at lunch because she is smart in math. Victor hopes and thinks that it will make her come over and she would talk to him. Victor is hoping that this will develop into a good relationship then maybe later on a possible date. When that does not work, Victor decides to try French class to impress Teresa, but Victor’s dilemma is that he doesn’t know any French. Victor is shy in the beginning of the story, but through Teresa, he becomes more dynamic. In the story Seventh Grade, Victor learns through shyness, love, and courage that makes him change overall throughout the story.

The story I am analyzing is ”Seventh grade” is a story made by Gary Soto. This short story is fiction because although Gary Soto relates to Victor, the main character, the events are unreliable. Gary Soto wrote this short story for the sole purpose of entertaining the audience made of middle schoolers. The theme of this short story is what really grabs the attention of readers because the readers are able to relate. With that being said, or in this case typed, the theme is that it is nerve wracking talking to your crush. The point of view of this story is third person limited which means that the narrator is not part of the story but instead is told through the eyes of one of the characters. Although if the story was third person omniscient

To begin, Victor is just like a typical seventh grader because he has a crush. On page , Soto writes, “As Teresa walked down the hall, Victor walked the other way, looking back, admiring how gracefully she walked, one foot in front of the other.” This quote shows that Victor is just like a typical seventh grader. He really fond of Teresa, you could even say he loves her. Victor loves to just watch Teresa walk down the hall. He would rather be with Teresa than hang out with his friends because he likes her so much. A normal seventh grader has a crush even

Without looking at Mr. Bueller, Victor mumbled, ‘Frenchie oh we we gee in September.” ” This shows that he lied when he said that he could speak French, when clearly he cannot. Due to this, he embarrassed himself.

Seventh Grade There are multiple of different changes to the character's mindset in the story “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto; for example Victor was feared of explaining something in French that will make Teresa assume he wasn’t wise enough, how both Victor & Teresa became more pleased between each other instead of an awkward feel, and how Victor became more courageous communicating to Teresa. ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­First of all, Victor was anxious of exclaiming something peculiar to Teresa, so he would have a fixed mindset because he is thinking negatively about what he will say in French that might gravely embarrass him in front of Teresa. In the text it states “La me vave me con le grandma,” he said uncertainly. Mr. Bueller, wrinkling his face in curiosity, asked

Gary Soto uses appearance and thoughts, actions and speech to characterize Victor’s pretentiousness in his story, “Seventh Grade”. At first, Victor’s friend, Michael comes up to him with a ferocious scowl on his face. When Victor inquires Michael about the scowl, he tells Victor it’s what male models to to attract women, and Victor tries it on a few girls and thinks it works. In all possibility, the girls could have been attracted to it but were most likely taken aback when he scowled at them. Once again, Victor shows his pretentiousness in French class while trying to impress his crush, Teresa. He raised his hand when the teacher asked if anyone knew French, but since he didn’t know how to,

The short story “The Last Dog” by Kathrine Patterson has a different theme to everyone who reads it. The theme I found is “don’t be afraid to find out things for yourself.” The story conveys this theme in many ways. Characters, language, lines of dialogue, all ways the theme is showed to the readers. I personally liked this story because I love science fiction.

I have stated, finding the theme of a story can be tricky even for adults. Additionally, the information I gathered from the q and a on the first day, also illustrated these students are no different than anyone else. Many of them struggled at this skill. Each day I instructed another lesson on the theme, additional students understood the differences between a theme and a moral. The hard one for students to grasp is the difference between the theme and main idea. I stressed in every lesson that students need to remember, the theme is the message the author is trying to convey to us. The main idea can often be directly linked to the title, To Kill a Mockingbird the reader can ask themselves; what does it mean to kill a mockingbird? Perhaps even; what is a mockingbird anyway? From those initial questions, the reader can derive a clue to the maid idea, but that idea is far removed from the theme of the novel. The theme of any text also relates to how we feel about something, or even what we want to do about something, because we have read this authors’ text.

The theme in a story is the truth or the main message. Theme also involves a life lesson. In the short story, “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi,” by Rudyard Kipling, the theme is clearly evil is punished and good is rewarded. The snakes, or the antagonists, are the evil in the story. While Rikki-tikki, the protagonist, is the good in the story. In the end, the snakes have perished and Rikki-tikki has won. The short story contains many actions, as well as dialogue, to prove this is obviously the theme. I understand how some people might think the theme is protecting those who are not able to protect themselves is a duty which everyone owes to society, but I will prove that my theme is the true message in the story.

To begin, in the story “Seventh Grade”, the conflict is both internal and external. The part of the conflict that is internal, is where Victor has feelings for Teresa, and he doesn’t want to show them. In his head, he is reluctant and conscious about what might happen if Teresa doesn’t like him, and knows the penalties of telling her. The part of the conflict that is external, is where Victor keeps trying to impress Teresa, by scowling and speaking

In the story,”Seventh Grade” Victor embarrassed himself by acting stupid in front of the girl he likes all the time. For example, “He stretched out lazily in an attempt to disguise his snooping.” (paragraph 34) It is clear that, Victor’s action shows that he is hoping that he could see Teresa so he keeps on looking back and forth to see if she is there or not. Victor’s action is also showing that he wishes to meet Teresa so he can talk to her, so he keeps peeking around while pretending to do something else. As evidence,”Frenchie oh wewe gee in September.” (paragraph 47) As you can see, Victor lied to his French teacher that he can speak French so he can impress Teresa, but ended up embarrassing himself in front of her. He also made fun of

Next, I’m going to start with the negative consequences of Victor’s experience. First consequences of Victor is Victor’s fake French speaking. In French class, Victor notice that Teresa was in the same class as he was. Victor had the idea to say he spoke French when Mr. Bueller asked if anyone spoke French to impress Teresa. When Victor admitted he spoke French, Mr. Bueller asked Victor a question, “Parlez-vous français?” which means “Do you speak French?”. Victor didn't know what to say. He tried to speak French, “La me vave me con le grandma” which ended up wrong. Mr. Bueller didn't understand a word Victor said, so Victor tried again “Frechie oh wewe gee in September” but ended up wrong again, so Mr. Bueller walked away. I too am in French