Gary Soto Seventh Grade Essay

Gary Soto manages to cleverly capture the many emotions, reactions and challenges that middle school students may face on the first day of school in his short story, “Seventh Grade”. The story follows Victor, the main character, from his arrival at school until the afternoon, as he sees old friends and attempts to attract the attention of a girl he likes named Teresa. Victor has signed up for French as his elective in hopes of having a class with her. One of the many strategies he uses to impress her is to raise his hand when the teacher asks if anyone knows French. When the teacher directly asks Victor a question he “tried to bluff his way out by making noises that sound French.” Fortunately the teacher, Mr. Bueller, chooses to ignore the opportunity to humiliate Victor, remembering his own antics with girls back in college. Under the assumption that Victor knows French, Teresa …show more content…
The script was fairly loyal to the written version, most of the scenes were in the short story that Gary Soto had wrote. Some of the actors were believable like Michael and Teresa, but I’m not quite sure about Victor’s acting or part. He didn’t seem nervous or act nervous when Mr. Bueller picked him since he raised his hand. Michael on the other hand was a really good actor in my opinion, he scowled, he acted like Victor was his best friend and acted very well. The overall entertainment rating of the video would be 4.5 pokemon balls out of 5 pokemon balls. (5 pokemon ball rating is you’ve caught my attention, and a 1 pokemon ball out of 5 is that you didn’t catch my attention) I’d say it’s 4.5 pokemon balls because there were some things that weren’t necessary as said before. Overall, I do think that the video or film was entertaining to watch, even if it isn’t