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Seventh Grade by Gary Soto is a story about a guy named Victor who really wants to impress a girl named Teresa. The only thing is, he does wrong things to try and impress Teresa. He lies, scowls and bumps into Teresa. He is just being a bad guy, he would have confronted her rather than lying. First, Victor really seems like a good guy but behind him he isn’t. Victor really likes to scowl at girls, so they think he likes them. “On the way to his homeroom Victor tried a scowl. He felt foolish until out of the corner of his eye he saw a girl looking at him.” (291) “He scowled with greater conviction” (291). Next during French class his French teacher, Mr. Bueller asked if anyone knew French already. Victor wanted to impress Teresa so he said
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