My Literary Essay

Claim: In the story Seventh Grade by Gary Soto, Victor is trying to hard to get Teresa, a girl he likes.

Introduction: Have  you ever tried too hard for something? Victor did this on the first day of seventh grade, the main setting of the book Seventh Grade by Gary Soto, where he tried too hard to get Teresa to like him on the first day of school.

Reason One: It's the first day of school, and Victor is looking around for Teresa, trying to impress her, and thinking about her the whole day. It's the first day of school! It's not like he has one or two days to get her. He's trying to hard! If he does this everyday he's going to get exhausted! It's not going to end well.

Reason Two: To impress Teresa, he lies that he knows fluent french, and gets himself on the very edge of complete embarrassment. It's not really worth that. He's trying to hard! To get Teresa to like him, he took a HUGE risk of being embarrassed and never getting her for the rest of the year!! He's wants it so bad that he's willing to risk everything and I think he will do any amount of work for her love.

Reason Three: Victor's thinking about Teresa to much, and sucking up his own time doing it. When his teacher asks him to say a person, he immediately says, "Teresa!" And then everyone knew he liked her. He couldn't think of anyone but him, so he said that. He's always looking for her and thinking about her. Like during recess he looks around until he sees her under a tree.

Conclusion: Victor tries too hard for Teresa, and he's probably going to have trouble this year, but have a good year none the less. I think he's going to get her eventually, but with a lot of trouble. So ya.