Have you ever felt that on your birthday that you have not even grown one bit. That is just how Rachel feels. In the short story, ¨Eleven,¨ the author, Sandra Cisneros, illustrates how birthday 's can change who you are, and no matter what age you are turning, you are still all of those younger ages inside. In the beginning, Rachel is turning 11. She doesn´t feel any different. ¨When you wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven, but you don 't.¨. Her math teacher, ¨Mrs.Price,¨ asks who the red sweatshirt belongs to. Nobody admits to it, so the teacher goes straight to Rachel. ¨Mrs. Price takes the sweater and puts it on Rachel 's desk, but when she opens her mouth to say it is not hers, nothing comes out.¨ She feels like