What Was The Cause Of Victor's Failure?

In the short story, “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto, Victor is the hero. Victor struggles to make Teresa “his girl.” Victor plans out how to attract Teresa. However, he makes many failures to impress Teresa and embarrasses himself. In the text, it states, “Mr. Bueller asked if anyone knew French. Victor raised his hand, wanting to impress Teresa […] Victor was too weak from failure to join the class,” (Soto 4-5). Victor wanted to impress Teresa so much that he did something that he didn’t know how to do, such as speaking French. Victor affects the conflict of the short story. Victor is determined, amiable, and hopeful. He started to take action to accomplish his goal. In the text, it states, “He [Victor] wanted to leave when she [Teresa] did

He had planned to talk about his book Macho, but when he faced the crowd of teachers, his experience at school came back into his mind. He said he had faced a lot of abuse and his efforts to overcome bad teaching and become a writer. He admired good teachers with all his heart but criticized bad teachers. That presentation was not what the audience expected. Some reacted cruelly and left, but most of audience stayed and listened to him. After that, Victor was invited to give more speeches to let the audience know what worked in their education system.

Throughout the story Victor replays moments in his mind. Times when he and Thomas were best of friends. Times when he loved listening to Thomas' visions about life and stories with hidden lessons. Times when Thomas was there for him and even a time when Thomas helped to save his life. The good memories turn to visions of Victor turning his back on his best friend. Victor is faced with the reality of his cruel actions and choices. Of how he chose to go with the rest of the 'pack' and attack the 'weak' one. Victor recalls being drunk when he was fifteen and beating up Thomas for the fun of it. How all of the other boys on the reservation just stood and watched and how he may have continued beating Thomas

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.

In this adaptation, the writer ensures that Victor is unhinged and carefree but a loyal friend to Igor and other people in his life. In addition to being brash, Victor is humorous in most of the scenes. This is implied when Igor pleads with him to rethink the experiments since the police were after the duo. While his friend Igor wanted to make a world a better place and hopefully be remembered for inventing new ways of healing the sick, Victor seeks to redefine the meaning of life and death. From the writing, it is clear that Victor did not really intend to get anybody hurt. His character is simply deranged and he ends up risking the lives of the people around him. The writer

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.

Victor has become obsessed with studying (something no one should ever be interested in) and has locked himself in his room studying for days on end. He "applied so closely, it may be easily conceived that my progress was rapid. My ardour was indeed the astonishment of the students, and my proficiency that of the masters... Two years passed in this manner, during which I paid no visit to Geneva, but was engaged, heart and soul, in the pursuit of some discoveries which I hoped to make". (7) This early application of himself is what drove him to become lonely and reclusive, shying away from all who attempted to come into contact with him. He is also inspired in this chapter to start his reanimation project. He becomes consumed in this one project spending many months alone in the top of his apartment assembling his creature. He raided slaughter houses, grave yards, and dissection rooms to furnish what he needed to create his monster. The lines between life and death became blurred

Vocabulary Words Caprice (n) - a sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behavior No one could better enjoy liberty, yet no one could submit with more grace than she did to constraint and caprice. (Page 4-7) Victor, throughout the course of the novel, grows with a greater mercurial temperament. He exemplified the word capricious. At one moment, he could be joyous with Elizabeth and then the next moment turn to despair as he thought of his horrible creation which snuffed the life of his youngest brother, William and dearest friend, Clerval.

Victor experiences alienation throughout the entirety of his life. From his childhood and family, to his scientific work and society, he chooses isolation. Victor was an only child in a ‘perfect’ family. He acquires an attraction to science and begins to educate himself. Victor tells of his past to Walton, “I was, to a great degree, self-taught with regard to my favorite studies. My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child’s blindness, added to a student’s thirst for knowledge” (Shelley 26). To begin his scientific studies, Victor leaves his family. He hardly has any contact with his family, and his isolation from them seems to have no effect on him at all. He decides when to have contact with his family at his discretion.

It is Victor's story that truly exposes the true theme of the story, with him speaking of his days as a child and his first friendship with the girl his parents adopted. He lives a fine life, full of joy and happiness with friend plentiful. When he goes to college he is without friends, but soon befriends one of the professors and engaged in lengthy conversations with him. This isn't the same friendship as before, lacking the real love and companionship of his family, and he soon begins work on his creation. He so overwhelmed by the idea of creating a perfect person he is blinded from the deformity of the creature. When the creature is finished he examines his work and is mortified by it, running and hiding he escapes the creature that soon wanders away. Soon after Victor becomes sick and deathly, he shuns society and people and is almost dead when his friend Clerval arrives at the college. Clerval nurses Victor back to health, but Victor isn't physically sick, he has just

     When Victor was nine years old, he was molested by a priest at a Mission School. Because of his experience, he distrusts and avoids most aspects of the church. Religion plays little, if any, part in Victor?s life.

The way Edward Bloor reveals Victor’s character is to show that although he may seem mean, and tough he cares about his friends, and is passionate about soccer. During the soccer game against Kinnow Middle School when Victor’s head started to bleed he was stubborn, and insisted on playing. Even when the coach had tried to convince Victor that he has to get to the emergency room, he argued multiple times. When Victor finally decided that he couldn't play he motivated the team, and started yelling “War! War! War!”.

The chapter begins with the introduction of Victor himself and his family in Geneva. This chapter reveals the young innocent boy whom at some point of his life had a happy family. The death of his mother is unfathomable that later on is one of the factors that induces him into creating a monster. As he starts his future in the University of Ingolstadt, he takes his pride, high hopes and ambition and little did he know that

To an intellectually enlightened community the contradiction should have been apparent: They detained Victor and forced him to learn how to live as a proper human being in civilized society; he was treated every step of the way as if he were an animal. The inconsistencies were nowhere more apparent than they were in the often times tortured mind of the main scientist overseeing the progress of Victor, the young and gifted Dr. Itard. It was Itard who subjected Victor to inhumane treatment from keeping him on a leash during walks around the grounds, to using violence to arrive at a desired level of obedience. While popular opinion had Victor as some kind of savage creature, which justified the type of treatment he received, Itard disagreed. His own radical beliefs that Victor was more than animal had already condemned his own methods. (1)

Victor studies and ignoring having a social life and his family. He Fascinated by citation of life, he begins to study about how the human body built. After a couple of year of a lot of work, he masters all the work his teacher gave him, and discovering the secret of life. He hidden away his woke from everyone, thinking of way to make his