Conflict Winner Short Story

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In the seventh grade, short story we can all relate to sometimes we have crushes on other people and we do everything we can to get them to notice us. In the melting pot, all they want is for the ad people to go away and the good people to stay. But it ended up that the good and bad people left. Like when the story talked about the teens on the roof playing heavy metal music at 3:00 am.
In other word the melting pot and seventh grade are excellent stories, but the question is, do they each have a conflict winner
Let’s go over 7th grade. the beginning of the story is Victor a kid that just got back from summer break and his friend Michal learned how to scow. Then Victor learns that his crush is in his homeroom and French classes. When the bell rings he tries to get her attention by “bumping into her”. Then he tries to spark a conversation before going to class. In his French class, he tries to impress her by saying pretend French words. She thinks he knows French and asked him to tutor her and he says yes knowing that she is good at math and he’s not. there is a winner here because he gets to hang out with her and teach her while she gets to help him with math.
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In the melting pot the story takes place in a neighborhood that has many diverse cultures and languages. There are a lot of bad people in her neighborhood, but also good people and her and her children are friends with the next-door neighbor. There is also a cool Mexican restaurant that replaced a bar. she loved this because she did not want a bar in the middle of her neighborhood because there was a lot of children. When the rockers on the roof moved out; however, the good people moved out too. The mother did not like the bar, the no goods, and the

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