Station Eleven, a science fiction novel written by Emily ST. John Mandel, tells the stories of characters’ lives and careers before and after the Georgia Flu, is a strong infection causing infected patients’ deaths within forty eight hours. Mandel describes feelings and actions of characters about their home islands, their places in their world, and two categories of art, high and low, which trigger survivors’ different responses, to mimic modern citizens’ emotions and points of view about their current society. By constructing an imitation of modern citizens’ feelings in the book, Mandel shows readers how their lives will become after losing their current positions in order to remind them that they need to appreciate what they have and not
In the story Eleven Rachel, the narrator acts more like a child. The author states, “I put one arm through one sleeve of the sweater… I sit there with my arms apart like if the sweater hurts me, and it does.” Knowing children, they would probably look for the worst in situations they don’t like. They would then try to over exaggerate to get their point across, like “the sweater hurts me.”
Plot: This story takes place in antebellum Louisiana in 1856. A friend of Morgan Davis has recently died, so her daughter is in the Davis family’s care. She is 14 year old Rachel.
The author, Sandra Cisneros, uses literary techniques in “Eleven” to characterize Rachel by using metaphors, comparisons, and repetition. In the beginning of Sandra Cisneros’s short story, she states that when a person becomes an age older they will not feel a difference. The character Rachel explains that in different situations, for example, “Like some days you might say something stupid, and [you will feel ten]” a person might feel different from their actual age. She then competes growing old to layers of an onion, rings of a tree, wooden dolls that fit inside each other because, according to her, “that’s how being eleven years old is”.
In the story"Eleven", Rachel acts more like a child than a tween. One reason Rachel acts more like a child is in paragraph five,"If I was one hundred and two I'd have known what to say when Mrs. Price put the red sweater on my desk instead of just sitting with that look on my face and nothing coming out of my mouth". This shows that Rachel acts like a child because she "sat there with that look on my face" or showing emotions without speaking. Another reason might be in paragraph ten said,"I finally say in a little voice that was maybe me when I was four".
This is explained in the phrase," Can count on it to keep things on schedule. " Furthermore, this shows that she is looking after her sisters and herself by keeping things on a 'schedule' by constantly checking the time on her watch which is very impressive for an 11-year-old girl. However as I also said before, she can act like a little child. This is proven in the line," I wanted to squeal and ooh like a seven-year-old girl meeting tinker bell. " The author compares her to a seven-year-old to show that she is still a little girl, and has the desire to be a child, just like any other girl.
What core elements define the essence of humanity? In Mandel’s novel, one is compelled to reconsider the defining characteristics of humanity. Mandel structures the plot of Station Eleven around the main character Arthur Leander’s life. Throughout the novel, Mandel explores a series of sub character’s perspectives of the flu pandemic and each of their roles in the post-apocalyptic world it creates, encouraging the reader to delve into the relationships between humanity and art. Book reviewer Justine Jordan from The Guardian summarizes the book perfectly by claiming that “Station Eleven is not so much about [an] apocalypse as about memory and loss, nostalgia, and yearning” (Jordan, par. 5).
At the beginning of the story, we learn that it is her eleventh birthday. She is at school and her teacher is asking the class who owns a sweater that has been in the coatroom for a long time. No one is claiming the sweater, which Rachel describes as “ugly . . . raggedy and old”. A student says that the
The teacher, Ms. Price picks up a sweater and asks the class if anyone is missing a sweater. A student says that it's Rachel's, and the teacher gives her the sweater without even thinking. Rachel thinks and speaks in a way that is very reminiscent of an eleven year old. There is a youthful, innocent tone in her voice, especially when she says “I wish I was one hundred and two instead of eleven” without actually thinking about the disadvantages of being that age. Throughout the day, she references home and how she longs to go home to celebrate with her family and eat cake.
In Sandra Cisneros's essay entitled with “ Eleven”, she tried to convey a girl who is at the age of eleven traumatized by a power struggle with her teacher through simple diction. In the essay, she explained that Mrs. Price insisted and kept yelling at her to put the sweater “right now” with “no more nonsense”, and Rachel believed that her teacher was “always right”. The diction in these instances suggests that there is absolute authority where a child like her has no voice in an adult world. She also chose a great descriptive words to describe the red sweater such as “ all itchy and full of germs that aren’t mine”. Those words stress the fact that how disgusting the sweaterter was and how she was intolerable of it.
She is still a child.” (Capote 177) This evidence shows that other people also see her as a child. Buddy said this because he is still young, but she is his best friend. As we see this we could put childish as one of her character traits.
R stands for Risible, which means laughable. A stands for amazing, because she is awesome. C stands for childish, because she has a child in her that she will never outgrow. H stands for huggable, because she is a pillow when you need one. E stands for energetic, because she is full of energy.
She wants to act like a teenager but doesn’t want to grow up. She knows that growing up isn’t all what it’s cut out to be and decides in the end that she wants to take her time in growing up and getting
Age: the length of time that a person has lived or a thing has existed. In the short story“Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros. Talks about Rachel the main character on here eleventh birthday. Cisneros uses this to her advantage to characterize using details, specific language, and figurative language to explain her day.
The tone of the story is important in making the story sound like it is being to through the eyes of an eleven year old girl, such phrases like “pennies rattling in a band-aid box” and “my whole head hurts like when you drink milk too fast.” All these are certain phrases that would be used in an eleven year old's life, bandaids for the bumps and scrapes, and the milk that your parents would make you drink. That is the tone Eleven sets, a young girl telling us her humiliating story while she is still a child. Sandra Cisneros does an excellent job at using literary devices to characterize Rachel in “Eleven”. By using imagery, simile, and tone we can see that Rachel is a empathetic, bashful, wise, but still naive in her own ways.
