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

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.

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. He's too young for this I think. I mean, he's not going to get her the first day. It's going to take time! I know sometimes everyone might have a crush, no matter what gender, but it's just the first day.

He's desperate. 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. Some people are that way. "People will sometimes try too hard."

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. He's kind of desperate. He's just starting the year. I guess some people really want that and they need to have a girlfriend or boyfriend NOW. Not later, NOW. I guess that happens a lot.




None the less, Victor is trying too hard. And he will probably not get Teresa for a while.