AHW (Literary Essay)

Do you know a stalker?  In the story Seventh Grade by Gary Soto, Victor is a stalker.

 He smiled back and said, "Yeah, that's me." His brown face blushed. Why hadn't he siad, "Hi, Teresa," or "How was your summer?" or something nice? Victor wasn't giving her any privacy which is what stalkers do. Then he tried to catch up to her when she when out of the door. Then when she says "Hi, Victor." He says something and pretends that he didn't hear anything she said, even though he heard everything. Victor is a stalker becuase he stays behind at homeroom to spy on Teresa. That's kind of a stalker because he's pretending not to watch everything thing she does. But he is, and during homeroom the teacher was saying something and he was just thinking about Teresa. Then when she talked to the teacher after class, he was listening to everything she said. This is bad because Teresa might know that Victor was spying on her and be creeped out.

Another reason why he's a stalker is becuase during lunch he just looking for Teresa. The he pretends to study while he's outside, but he's just looking over his book for her. Then when he does find Teresa, he quickly moves to a table close to her. He's just trying to listen to what they're saying and he's daydreaming about her. Then when the bell rings he catchs Teresa's eye and she smiles at him. This is good and bad at the same time because she smiled at him but she might've seem him spying on her. But its mostly good because she was being nice to him by smiling nicely.

Besides, Teresa a girl he liked since catechism classes at Saint Theresa's, was taking French too. He must've barley known her, but he already likes her, so I think he spy's on her. Also he already knows that he likes her then he must've stalker her a lot. Because how would've you know you liked someone if you don't know them. So he must've stalked her a lot. This is bad because not a lot of people like stalkers. What I think about it is that if I was him I would just talk to Teresa. I think stalking him isn't going to work or she's going to find out sometime.

I think he stalks Teresa becuase he wants to know what she likes. He might want to pretend to get close to her or find out what she likes. 

In the story Seventh Grade by Gary Soto, Victor spy's on Teresa. Victor thinks that if he stalks Teresa, he'll find out whether she likes him or not. Also what Teresa likes. I think stalkers just want attention or they want to find out more about a person.