Seventh Grade by Gary Soto is a story based on the first day of school at a middle school where the main character is a boy named Victor Rodriguez witch was in Seventh grade. In the story Charles wrote in 1948 a little girl named Laurie is always getting in trouble, Thus She makes up a fake name for herself to keep her parents from knowing it. In the story Seventh Grade by Gary Soto the narrator develops the setting by giving details about how the school is like the emotions that people go through.
Rumors and assumptions are dangerous when it comes to keeping relationships. An example of the play “Mystery of the Suffocated Seventh Grader” is the game telephone. In the Play Perry Paulson spreads rumors and is a rumor. Liz just assumed that Principal Nolan was talking about Perry Paulson when she overheard him saying how he had killed something.
The story, Eleven, by Sandra Cisneros, is about a girl named Rachel and an awful red sweater. Rachel is forced to wear the sweater, although it isn’t hers. We can learn from this book to stand up for ourselves. Rachel didn’t and was forced to wear the sweater even though it wasn’t hers. She also got embarrassed in front of the entire class, and to top things off, her birthday was ruined.
This quote shows Victor getting tongue tied and blurting out the name of his crush because of his admiration for her. “Victor raised his hand, wanting to impress Teresa” (Soto 126) Victor had just volunteered to speak french in front of the whole class just to impress Teresa. This quote gives details on how Victor risked humiliation just to impress his
Everyone has done at least one horrible act that has caused them to feel guilty. Gary Soto is just an example of that; he wrote an autobiographical narrative called “A Summer Life” telling his story. In the narrative he gives a visualization of what he has done as a child. His unforgettable experience of stealing a pie, and trying to fight his conscious makes him rethink every horrible act. Describing every moment of how he got the pie and how amazing it taste.
Against School by John Gatto is an essay that attempts to persuade the reader that public education fails to educate its students. The main way Gatto tries to persuade his audience is by presenting anecdotal evidence and by showing the historical narrative to the education system of the Untied States. Gatto attempts also attempts to reach out to his audience by referring to commonalities in the public education system that have been experienced by many people. Overall the essay is persuasive but lacks any practical authority. The first thing the author does is provide background, background on himself and the situation with education in the United States; and, this is what the author primarily does.
In conclusion Victor made a fool of himself by blurting out Teresa's name instead of thinking about what to say. In paragraph forty two through forty seven In French Mr. Bueller asked if anyone one knew French, and Victor rose his hand. When Victor rose his hand, in French, to say he knew French when he really didn’t.
I can mostly relate to the story Oranges by Gary Soto. This story is about a boy that goes to the local drug store. He tries to buy some chocolate for a girl but is short 5 cents and he pays with an orange, and the store clerk accepts it. I did this one because this has happened to me when I was trying to buy candy also and the clerk said I was short but I couldn 't buy it so she said it was ok
In French class, Victor tried to impress Teresa. “Mr. Bueller asked if anyone knew French. Victor raised his hand, wanting to impress Teresa” (Soto). Victor lied to try and impress Teresa. He tried so hard to get Teresa to notice him, making it entertaining.
There it was, standing in the distance, a tall gloomy gray-colored building. With a few splashes of blue paint added to the dull cement to add color to what would otherwise be a lifeless building. This building was non-other than the one and only Stoller Middle School. I never referred to it as a middle school but more as a prison, it was full of rules that were put in place just to suck away any possible fun from a child’s mind. Maybe I didn’t like the place because I was suspended five times from it.
So, it 's been four years since his mom died, and ten-year-old Bud Caldwell takes off from his third foster home in search of a better way to live his life. He 's sick of being an orphan: unwanted, unloved, and all alone. On his own, he finds out how rough it is in Michigan in 1936, during the Great Depression. He meets many kind people along the way who help him complete his most awesome quest: to find the man that he thinks is his father. He 's looking for a guy whose picture was on some old flyers for jazz concerts his mother.
The voice an author uses when writing a story dictates the way the story sounds and what feelings a reader experiences when reading a story along with many other things. Clearly an author's voice influences many things and the way an author establishes the voice is essential to the development of a character. Sandra Cisneros develops Rachel's voice in the story, “Eleven” by writing in the view of an eleven year old girl and illustrating how an eleven year old would act. During the article, “Eleven” there are many mistakes including run on sentences and sentence fragments that the author purposefully made to convey Rachel's eleven year old thoughts.
In the story, “Seventh Grade, “ Victor, the main character, learns that with hard work and dedication you will reach your goal, through his embarrassing moments on his first day of seventh grade. In paragraph 24, Victor is asked a question and he answers Teresa, then all of the girls in his class giggled because they figured that Victor has a crush on Teresa. An example of this is, at one point in the text Victor had met up with an old friend he was doing a weird scowl thing he had seen models do, so later on Victor had tried it and a girl looked at him and actually noticed him so he said to himself in his head maybe it does work maybe it really does. When it was lunch it was like Victor was in a maze when he was looking for Teresa, when
Victor embarrassed himself many times in the story seventh grade. In the story “Seventh Grade," Soto states that Victor's friend told to him that scowling makes girls think that boys are smart, so Victor tries it and some girls laugh. Victor is doesn't really know it , but the girls were laughing at him, because he looked pretty stupid doing it. Victor did not learn a lesson ,because he thinks the girls are laughing at him because he is good looking. Victor also got embarrassed because, he was in the same French class as Teresa, a girl he really liked.
In the short story, “Seventh Grade,” by Gary Soto, the author pokes fun at the seventh grade boys in the beginning of a school year. The main characters are Victor, Michael, Mr. Bueller, and Teresa, a girl Victor has a crush on. In the end, Victor learns that is it is always best to be himself. The author describes how Victor attempts to impress his dream girlfriend, Teresa.
