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Student Name Professor Name Subject Date The Opinion Essay on the Short Story Seventh Grade by Gary Soto Starting a new school year is always an exciting and breathtaking event. You expect something unusual, fresh, and extraordinary to happen in your life. Victor Rodriquez, the main protagonist of Gary Sotos short story, was experiencing the similar feelings, when he started a school year as a seventh-grade student. The problems, fears, and aspirations are so familiar to each student. Thus, it is possible to argue that Gary Sotos Seventh Grade is the best story I have ever read. The setting of the story is aimed at gradual involvement of the readers into this amazing story. The action develops mainly in school, a place associated with countless emotions experienced by almost every student. It seems that the author narrates about your school, so shrewdly and skillfully he describes the impressions overflowing Victors soul. The problems of the schoolchildren, their joys and priorities are so masterly depicted that the reader constantly worries and sympathize with the heroes. Indeed, the seeming simplicity of the plot is also a benefit of the given story. Thus, no intricacies distract your attention from the masterfully depicted images of the characters. The action unfolds naturally, as if all the situations described by Soto were taken from our everyday life. The author uses irony and humor, which arouses the most sincere and bright emotions in the readers. Suffice it to recollect Victors attempts to master seduction techniques. Furthermore, our heart sinks, when the conflict occurs: we blush for Victor, who finds himself in a very difficult position. The climax of the story is also awesome. The readers wait with bated breath if the young boy will manage to extricate himself from a foolish and dishonorable satiation and expect the crucial decision from a teacher. Nonetheless, the denouement is quite positive and it let us breath freely again.

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Undoubtedly, the given story makes the readers go all the way from adaptation to new environment to obtaining true love. Thus, the author masterfully constructs the narrative and succeeds in creating an inimitable brilliant piece of literature that rightly can be considered the best story.