The short story, “Seventh Grade,” by Gary Soto is about a young boy named Victor who is going into seventh grade. He has a crush on this girl named Teresa. After finding out he is in the same class as her, he tries really hard to impress her and wants her to think he knows French.
In the beginning he just pretends that he knows French but doesn’t actually know how to speak it, but when Teresa asks him for help, he goes to the library to go check out three French books to learn. I think the theme of this story is to never give up. Even though it was very embarrassing for Victor, he pushed through. He is able to do anything to make Teresa like him.
You can see that there were many times that when Victor could have given up, but decided to not. For example, Victor could have give up when he was embarrassed and he could have not loan the books from the library and not help Teresa with her French. These are the reasons why I believe that the theme of the story is to not give up.