Gary Soto Seventh Grade Short Story

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In the story,”Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto, Victor,a seventh grader, was doing very embarrassing things on the first the first day of seventh grade which he learned from his experience. According to the text Victor thought,better yet, he wished he could start his life over (para. 52).Which meant that Victor was so embarrassed that he wanted to start his whole life over, but he learned from his experience. was that embarrassed that he wanted to start over. A river of nervous sweat ran down his palms(para. 46). the text says. That means he was ashamed of himself.He is very embarrassed and the other kids know that.He ended up learning his lesson on not to be cocky, and think before he says or does something. Victor is doing very embarrassing thing

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