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Charles By Shirley Jackson And Seventh Grade By Gary Soto

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In the story Charles by Shirley Jackson, and Seventh Grade by Gary Soto, there are many settings for the story and each of them are very important one way or another. In “Charles” a boy named Laurie kept on arriving home from his kindergarten talking about this other boy named “Charles” who was doing rude or fresh things that would surprise Laurie’s parents, after that the parents went to a PTA meeting and figured out that it was Laurie the whole time doing the actions of “Charles”. In “Seventh Grade”, it’s the beginning of the school year and it shows a boy named Victor who has a crush on another girl named Teresa, during that time he tried to get certain electives with Teresa so he can be with her and talk to her. But he then embarrassed himself trying to look good in front of Teresa. Still he ends up meeting with her after class and Teresa asks him to teach her some french so then Victor ends up checking out three french textbooks. The setting affects the plot in general by showing that without some of the setting the plot would be totally changed. …show more content…

This setting is important because everyone meets new friends at the start of the year and the electives get chosen at the start of the year. Hence the part where Victor tried to choose classes to where he’s with the girl he likes, Teresa. Although the setting doesn't really change a lot it has minor differences to where everywhere he goes in the school, including the cafeteria, french room, lockers etc. The setting of “Seventh Grade” affects the plot by a longshot because if it was in the beginning of the year maybe Victor wouldn't be able to choose an elective with the girl he likes

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