Eleven By Sandra Cisneros

The average kid has someone they look up too. They want to be older so they can do whatever they want. Then when they are all grown up they want to be a kid again. They realise how they have wasted their life focusing on the future. When something bad happens they wish to be the age they are not and when someone is young they wish to be older and/or younger. People are always wishing to be an age they are not. Something really bad happens and embarrassment overcomes the body, the first thing that comes to mind is wishing to be an older and/or younger age. The short story, Eleven by Sandra Cisneros, is about a young girl, named Rachel, who wishes to already be in the future due to being embarrassed. For example, when the teacher calls her out,

The poem, “On Turning Ten” by Billy Collins, is about the fear of growing up and saying goodbye to your past, but not forgetting it. When growing up people feel as though, “It is time to say good-bye to my imaginary friends…”(Cisneros). Meaning that when someone reaches a certain age they have to grow up and act a certain way. It is like an invisible code that comes along with growing up. The picture by Hannah Galvin, called “Growing Up”, demonstrates the different stages in life that an average person will go through and shows how kids look up to adults. It starts off with a baby crawling, to a toddler and a child looking up to the young adult. This shows, how starting from a young age kids have a role model that they look up to and admire. They set goals for themselves and base their life on their future. They want to become an NBA player so they train everyday of the week, they want to become a surgeon so they get straight A’s and nothing less. People set high goals and push themselves, but when they get older they don’t think about the future and don’t want to grow up. The adult in the picture looks stiff, mad, sad, and his body language reads as though he does not want to move on. Sometimes people get caught up in their dreams and when it is too late realise how unhappy they are, because they never lived in the present, they never lived