What Is The Theme Of Seventh Grade By Gary Soto

For Victor, getting the girl is what he is going for in 7 grade. In the beginning of the short story “Seventh Grade,” by Gary Soto, Victor, the dynamic protagonist, throughout his day tries to catch up and talk to Teresa, tries to find her and tries to impress her. He is conflicted with confidence around this girl he likes. Throughout the plot tries to impress and get her to notice him. Without his dose of confidence he fails on his attempts. He acts like most boys around his age because he doesn't know how to act or what to do. From the encouragement of others Victor changes throughout the plot. He goes from hesitant to self conscious to confident throughout the plot. In the beginning of the short story Victor is very hesitant around his crush Teresa. His first interaction with Teresa fails and leaves Victor feeling embarrassed. On page 2, lines 53 and 54 it states “He smiled back and said, ’Yeah, that’s me.’ His brown face blushed. Why hadn’t he said, ’Hi, Teresa ‘ or, ‘How was your summer?’ or something nice?“ He also showed some hesitancy watching to see …show more content…
We see on page 5, when Teresa comes up to him and starts up a conversation on how he was able to speak French.“ Yeah, well, I picked up a few things from movies and books and stuff like that” also “They left class together. Teresa asked him if he would help her with her French. ‘Sure, anytime,’ Victor said.“ Victor shows a bold side of himself when he responded to Teresa. Victor seems to be more self assured and satisfied when Teresa is talking to him and on good terms with him. When Teresa seemed like she wanted to talk with him he seemed to overcome his fear of talking to Teresa or saying the wrong thing to her. The more the two connected the more content he seemed when around