“Seventh Grade is a fictional short story by Gary Soto and its purpose is to entertain. This book “Seventh Grade” teaches young adults how they can search for their community and their place. “Seventh Grade” multiple languages such as French or Spanish. This book also uses third person limited narrative. An example of a simile from the book would be “It was confusing, like the inside of a watch”.
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.
This story is an example of realistic fiction. This is very easy to see just by looking at the real settings, true-to-life-themes, and believable dialogue. One of the main reasons Red Kayak is realistic fiction, is because of the use of realistic settings. The story Red Kayak has very realistic settings ranging from their home, to the river they go crabbing on.
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.
After dealing with all the guilt of the incident, he decided to turn them. Realistic fiction is a genre that refers to stories that could possibly happen. The elements needed to be realistic fiction are, credible events s, authentic characters, real settings, true- to- life themes, and believable dialogue. The novel Red Kayak is considered realistic fiction because it has credible events, true- to- life themes, and authentic characters. One reason Red kayak is a good example of realistic fiction is because the novel has examples of credible events.
In the story “Seventh Grade”,By (Gary Soto) the main character learns to be someone that he is not, but at the end learns to be himself through his embarrassing moments. In paragraph 5 it states that,” He scowled and let his upper lip quiver and girls looked at him.(Soto)This proves that Victor is not being himself and tries to be a good looking person by scowling, he,thinks that the girls like him now because he is doing that. On the way to his homeroom, the text says,“Victor tried a scowl. He felt foolish, until out of the corner of his eye, he saw a girl looking at him”.
Non fiction novels are great ways to make people aware of real life issues that happen everyday. People face poverty issues, racial issues, and environmental issues everyday of their life and are affected more than others. For example the environment is affected because of the different things people do in their everyday lives, like things that deal with fossil fuels and gas. Another example is race and how people are treated because of their specific race or religion. Issues like these are happening all around the world and most likely can be found in a nearby non-fiction novel.
By using this example of an anecdote, it is a short, true account of a real incident that happened to someone and it contains a clear plot, setting, and characters. Additionally, the
Although some aspects the famous writers contributed benefited the narrator. The tone Tobias Wolff uses to describe the writing contest is to initially improve the students’ writing skills by learning from the visiting authors. Before the contest, the narrator’s stories appeared to be dishonest and as they were “props in an act” (Wolff 110). The “props” characterized his dishonest background in his stories, making himself seem more like the other boys in his school. However Hemingway stepped in to teach the narrator that it was acceptable to have flaws in himself and his stories, in addition that he should be honest in his writing, therefore also influencing the narrator positively.
I was in a chess tournament about two years ago against many people in my school because I joined a chess club. Unfortunately, I didn 't get far in my last one and was hoping to be better this time. I was doing well until I saw a seventh grader paired with me in the semifinals. I was very nervous because last time I went against a seventh grader I lost and was knocked out from the tournament. But this time I was a lot better at chess than before so I had not a lot of doubts even though a lot of people thought that the grade seven was going to win.
In “Hunters in the Snow” main characters Tub, Frank, and Kenny are out hunting in a forest. After ‘joking’ about pretending to shoot Tub, Kenny himself is shot by Tub. The short story “Hunters In The Snow” by Tobias Wolff is an example of commercial fiction and “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell is an example of literary fiction because of their traits and how they are written. Although “Hunters In The Snow” is commercial fiction, and “The Most Dangerous Game” is literary fiction, both have some aspects of the others type. Even though “The Most Dangerous Game” is an example of Literary Fiction it has a lot of action.
Short stories are a piece of literature that holds a lesson in a small story, it has meaning behind it and with a large amount of imagery shows a picture of what the writer is trying to say. Short stories have been a very important piece of modern and past literature and always will, each story over the generations shows an evolution of not only english but also life in general. The story girl is an amazing short story by Jamaica Kincaid which has a deeper undertone of freedom while the mother explains how to be a lady. In the short story girl the mother explains how to be a lady, however with a deeper meaning of freedom behind it using a few key lines such as calling her daughter a slut.
In the short story, “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto, Victor is a seventh grade boy who is a big daydreamer, shy, and somewhat ignorant. For example in the story Victor tries to impress his crush, Teresa, in French class and attempts to respond to the teacher’s statement in French, “La me vave me con le grandma,” his teacher asks him to speak up and he mumbles, “Frenchie oh wee wee gee in September.” Embarrassed, Victor stays silent for the rest of the period. This shows that Victor was more focused on impressing Teresa than the class itself which led to this event. He was unprepared, raised his hand and realized he didn’t understand French at all
“Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life”. (Barbara Kingsolver) Fiction is an imaginary thing or event, postulated for the purposes of argument or explanation as defined by Dictionary.com. There are many literary devices that writers incorporate into their works. The main reason literary devices are used is to connect with the reader.
It 's interesting how the English language has 26 letters in its alphabet, and writers can turn them into lengthy and twisted, warm, emotional, or even a symbolic work of fiction. More than a great imagination is needed to created a compelling fictional story. It 's the way words are used to pull in readers, push them away, or bring them together. A story 's ability to he discussed is what makes it a good work of fiction.
