Victors 'Internal Conflict In The Story Seventh Grade'

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In the story “Seventh Grade” Victor had and internal conflict about a girl he liked named Teresa. Victor is trying to get Teresa to like him to by acting like he knows French when Mr. Bueller calls on him. Then after class Teresa ask him to help her with her French. After she ask him he goes to the library and checked out three French books. In the story “Melting Pot” there is an external conflict between all the ethnic groups in her neighborhood. Some people did not like other people but some people did it was all because of their race.

In the story “Seventh Grade” Victors internal conflict was about a girl named Teresa. When it came time to pick electives he picked French not even knowing a bit of it but he knew that Teresa was going to

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