Did you know Victor Rodriguez has a crazy first day of school? He ends up talking to lots of people around school but he also embarrasses trying to impress a girl. All of this happens because victor is brave,friendly but also desperate. This all come from the story 7th grade by: Gary Soto.
Victor is a brave character in the story seventh grade. One example is when he is in French class and lies to his teacher by telling him he can speak French, but he eventually embarrasses himself by saying fake words. Another example is when Victor went along with pretending to know French to impress Teresa. So along with lying to the teacher he also lies to Teresa too.
Victor might be brave but at times he can be very desperate. He might have been
brave to lie to the teacher but he did because he was desperate for attention in class. The only reason he was desperate for attention was try to impress Teresa who has like for a long time. But during this time Victor has not impressed her so now he is becoming very desperate to do so. Along with being desperate he can also friendly. He talks to his friend Michael almost everyday. He also demonstrates throughout the story he is friendly by talking to multiple people. And in addition to talking to other people many other people gesture to talk to him instead of confronting them. This means Victor and the other people are some sort of friends. In conclusion Victor Rodriguez can be brave, desperate, and friendly. These qualities show throughout the story especially when he lies to a teacher and talks to friends. This all because Victor Rodriguez is a very unique character in the story 7th Grade By: Gary Soto.
Nobody would love or care for him so he decided to kill Victor as an act of
Victor not being able to read made him dread going to school because his teacher would require students to read out loud. Victor states how having to read out loud was not his only fear but many other things as well. He was also extremely fearful of facing the world without his mother. That is another reason victor also hated staying at school because his mother could not stay with him. After a while, Victor learned soon enough to adapt to being without his mother, realizing that everything would be Ok. He also began to make friends at school, which helped him be a bit more comfortable at school. One of the boys he hung out with the most was his friend Ramón. This boy Ramon inspired and motivated Victor to become brave like him. In Chapter four we see an example of this where Victor states “I quit crying, just like that. My God, I couldn’t believe it, this boy Ramon had to be the bravest boy I had ever seen” (Villaseñor 64).Victor makes it clear about how he admires Ramon for his bravery and also refers to Ramon’s personality as his motivation for courage. I learned how Victor in this book changes from a young fearful boy to a brave gritty young man proud of his Mexican roots. Fear is a great motivator.
When Victor flees the creature, he becomes lonely and unhappy. He rejects his own works. If he stayed and taught him the creature would at least have a chance of happiness. When the monster flees to the cottagers he learns about human nature. He quotes “I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair. My protector had departed and broken the only link that held me to th...
Victor grows up in school both on the American Indian Reservation, then later in the farm town junior high. He faces serious discrimination at both of these schools, due to his Native American background. This is made clear in both of the schools by the way the other students treat him as well as how his teachers treat him. His classmates would steal his glasses, trip him, call him names, fight him, and many other forms of bullying. His teachers also bullied him verbally. One of his teachers gave him a spelling test and because he aced it, she made him swallow the test. When Victor was at a high school dance and he passed out on the ground. His teacher approached him and the first thing he asked was, “What’s that boy been drinking? ...
In Middle School: How I survived bullies, broccoli, and Snake Hill, by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts, Rafe Katchadorian’s summer had begun and he was about to head to a summer school. Throughout the whole school year, he had broken most of the rules, which he thought were ridiculous, such as: not talking in the hallway and going to the bathroom only twice a day and his report card never saw an A. In addition, he made a million enemies and a total of zero friends. With the arrival of summer, his mother and grandmother sent him and his sister, Georgia to a summer school, the setting, called Camp Wannamorra. From the moment he stepped
He has come to believe that he had done the right thing in refusing the creatures request. The request which could of saved his friend and his wife's lives. Victor shows how selfish he can be, not taking responsibility and also believing that choosing the decision that ended his wife and friend's lives was the correct thing to choose. At this point and time, the readers are choosing who deserves the sympathy, Victor or the creature?
Victor is not able to see past the metaphorical clouds that seem to shroud his mind from seeing the truth. Furthermore, Victor is not able to let go of his hatred for the creature. In contrast, the creature admits, “But it is true that I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and the helpless” (275). The creature is able to recognize that he has made mistakes and as a result, he loathes himself.
He not only turned away the being he had brought into the world; he also denied the creature companionship, friendship, and happiness while continuing to seek his own. Victor gained new purpose and even on his deathbed holds to the principle that he is justified in desiring the death of his enemy. Moment before his death he turns to Captain Robert Walton and says, “I feel justified in desiring the death of my adversary. During these last days I have been occupied in examining my past conduct; nor do I find it blamable” (156). He even begins to lose the small amount of compassion he had for the creature’s struggle.
evil; while Victor acts out of greed. Victor’s self-centered behavior effects everyone in the novel; he hurts his family’s
Victor is a boy who tries to impress a girl and gain her attention. For example, Victor wanted to be like all of the other boys and make the girls like him, so he tried scowling and he felt unwise. A quote from the text that proves that my topic sentence is true is, “On the way to his homeroom, Victor tried to scowl, he felt foolish.” This quote means Victor doesn’t think that any of the girls are interested in him as much as they are to his friends, so he thinks that he needs to change his actions to make the girls like him. Another sentence of what this quote means is, Victor feels like when he tried to scowl that it felt very unusual to him and he felt embarrassed. My second piece of evidence from when
Schooled is a story about a 13 year old boy named Capricorn (Cap) Anderson who is a hippie from garland. the middle school is where where the story is mostly set as well as his temporary home and even partially at garland farm. The main problem Cap faces is being a huge outsider and knowing nothing about public school or the outside world or even pizza and tv is a completely new concept for Cap. Cap is a nice person and is very confident everyone else is nice to, but unfortunately for him, he was wrong.
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Throughout the book we are able to see that at a very young age the the little uglies were reinforced that they were ugly that that by the time they turn 16 years old it was expected from them to be operated and turn pretty. I was also able to see that through a very young age they were engrave that when they turn 16 they would be living the desired and comfortable live. Thus, over emphasizing the importance of beauty and how beauty holds happiness and living a comfortable life. I do not believe that 15 years olds should be allowed to have plastic surgeries because that is the time in which a teenager is passing through a developmental phase of self acceptance, and self identity. I think this is a critical time period for a teenager because he/she learns to accept themselves, by trying on different roles. Changing the physical appearance a teenager will complicate this phase of self acceptance, and finding who they really are in this world. Another thing we
I was sitting at my desk inside if my third grade classroom that was full with many students. I sat right next to my friend Eric. The teacher, Mrs. Cooksey had put four desks together so that it could make one big table. I sat with two other girls and Eric. Eric was on my right side and one of the girls who is named Yesenia sat in front of me and Keristy sat in front of Eric. We were all working on multiplication problems on a worksheet that Mrs. Cooksey handed out to us. As we were working Eric asked me a question.