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Summary Of Seventh Grade By Gary Soto

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In the story “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto the setting took place on the first day of school where Victor meets this girl named Teresa that he really likes he thought that this year would be the year he ask’s out Teresa. This also took place in Fresno, CA where it is really really hot so Victor wants to take French because he might move there, but he has no idea how to say anything he just tries to impress Teresa by scowling and trying to speak French, but it dosen’t really work out.He doesn’t really like his classes like, French or math so he tries to hide in the back so he can’t get called on, but he tries to act like he knows what he is talking about to date Teresa. One day the teacher calls on him and he starts saying random stuff in French to impress the girl, but one day he actually impresses Teresa and Victor ends up teaching her French. …show more content…

This setting is important because this is where everything happens. This is the most important setting in the story because this is where this kid so called Charles ends up being completely bad. screaming and hitting people. This setting was also in the beginning of the school year if it took place more in the year Charles’ parents would of knew that there was no kid named Charles in his class he was the one that was causing all this trouble the whole entire time throughout the story. At the end of the story it doesn’t go to well once they find out there is no kid named Charles in the

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