The voice an author uses when writing a story dictates the way the story sounds and what feelings a reader experiences when reading a story along with many other things. Clearly an author's voice influences many things and the way an author establishes the voice is essential to the development of a character. Sandra Cisneros develops Rachel's voice in the story, “Eleven” by writing in the view of an eleven year old girl and illustrating how an eleven year old would act. During the article, “Eleven” there are many mistakes including run on sentences and sentence fragments that the author purposefully made to convey Rachel's eleven year old thoughts. In the text it states,”I don’t know why but all of the sudden I’m feeling sick inside, like the part of me that’s three wants to come out of my eyes, only I squeeze them shut tight and bite down on my teeth really hard and try to remember today when I am eleven, eleven.” This run on sentence shows how an eleven year old may talk. Rachel is a child and nervous so her thoughts are likely fast and in only one sentence. Cisneros clearly conveyed and developed Rachel's character by using this technique because it advanced the …show more content…
Sandra Cisneros developed the voice of Rachel as an eleven year old in, “Eleven” by writing the way an eleven year old would think and illustrating how an eleven year old would act through Rachels actions.
The voice an author uses when writing a story dictates the way the story sounds and what feelings a reader experiences when reading a story along with many other things. Clearly an author's voice influences many things and the way an author establishes the voice is essential to the development of a character. Sandra Cisneros develops Rachel's voice in the story, “Eleven” by writing in the view of an eleven year old girl and illustrating how an eleven year old would