Crushes In Seventh Grade By Gary Paulsen

Junior High Crushes “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”-EE Cummings (Brainyquote.com). Junior High is the starting place of actual crushes. In elementary you would “like” someone because they were funny and cute. Seventh grade, not only would you “like” the certain person, but would “love” them. Crushes are often games...girls would just want to be noticed, and boys often show off. Seventh grade by Gary Soto and Girls by Gary Paulsen, exemplifies two different points of view of how 13 year olds boys will behave. 7th grade is about a boy, Victor, who had liked a girl named Teresa since young Catechism classes. Victor learns that he has a couple classes with Teresa, and suddenly his idea of middle school seemed more radiant, because now, he has the chance to talk to her. When the time comes he acts quite rude, to Teresa. She simply asks his name and instead of replying politely, he said “yeah that’s me”. After realizing he was quite rude he feels stupid, he hopes to have another class with her. The next class he has with Teresa, is French. They both don't know a lick of French, but that doesn't stop him from

They were able to talk about them, like who had better hair or who was cuter. For example they thought Elaine and Eileen were both cute, but Eileen had prettier hair (Gary Paulsen 131) Because the protagonist was afraid to talk to girls, it resulted in him asking a friend to ask a friend, to ask a friend, to ask a friend to ask Eileen out. They went to an outdoor theatre he wore his best clothes, a pullover sweater over a turtleneck, but it was summer. The character ends up sweating like a dog, and making a fool of himself. If that weren't embarrassing enough, he proceeded to yell at her when she didn't answer him. The two finally sit to watch a movie without further