On September 11, 2001 tragedy struck in the United States. Terrorists attacked the twin towers in New York City as well as the pentagon located in Washington D.C. With a total of four aircraft hijacked, terrorists managed to fly two of these planes into the World Trade Center. Working in a normal atmosphere, New York became a city of chaos and fear after the first building was hit by the plane. Throughout the short story, “The Ashen Guy: Lower Broadway, September 11, 2001”
In the short story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, Rachel’s attitude is anxious and pessimistic using selective details and imagery. Throughout the short story, there is a continuous theme, birthdays. While most people cannot wait for their birthdays, Rachel feels quite differently. Rachel not only thinks she's eleven, but also ten, 9 , 8 , 7 , and so on. She thinks that when you “sit on your mama’s lap because you're scared,...
September 11, 2001 has proven to be one of the most horrific and diving days in American history. Taking the lives of thousands, Muslim terrorists wreaked havoc on New York City’s iconic Twin Towers, pushing citizens of the United States and surrounding countries to their limits. People have since recorded personal accounts of the catastrophe, portraying the happenings of the tear-jerking event. A consistent sense of distress and hopelessness are evident in many modern literary pieces concerning the egregious act of terrorism. In his narrative “The Ashen Guy: Lower Broadway, September 11, 2001”, author Thomas Beller establishes a significantly panicked tone through the use of detailed imagery, strong punctuation, and illustrative diction.
In the story Eleven by Sandra Cisneros I can make inference that Mrs. Price is a determined teacher. In paragraph 11 the author states” of course it's yours” Mrs. price says. “ I remember you wearing it.” Because she’s older and the teacher, she’s right and I’m not.
Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, titled the book in reference to the play The Tempest by William shakespeare. This quote is used by John in chapter 11 to express his opinions on the World State. When John sees the identical Epsilons, Deltas, and Gammas, and the systematical work they do, John is disgusted. He says, “O brave new world that has such people in it” (pg 160), repeating Miranda’s words from The Tempest. In the tempest, a girl named Miranda has been living in an isolated island, and has never seen a man aside from her father.
Eleven by Sandra Cisneros is a story about how a girl named Rachel gets accused of owning the ugly sweater that's been sitting in the coat area for a long time. It shows how the sweater makes Rachel uncomfortable and physically pains her to put it in. The story uses literary devices to show Rachels's complex reaction to the event that happened in her class with the red sweater. One literary device used in simile is when she explains how awful the sweater is “I put one arm through one sleeve of the sweater that smells like cottage cheese”. Cottage cheese is known to be terrible smelling so it further represents how terrible the sweater is and how much Rachel hates it.
In the short story, “Eleven,” by Sandra Cisneros, a girl named Rachel narrates her eleventh birthday. After her classmate, Sylvia Saldivar, wrongfully stated that a red sweater belonged to Rachel, this causes the teacher to give it to Rachel. Yet, the teacher, Mrs. Price, never took into consideration whether it actually did belong to Rachel. There are three reasons as to why Mrs. Price acted this way.
Griffin Youngs Period 1 English 10 GT In the short story, “Eleven”, Sandra Cisneros depicts Rachel as an empathetic, wise, but socially misunderstood child who feels excluded by both her teachers and her fellow students. Cisneros utilizes various literary techniques throughout “Eleven” to help bring out the characteristics of the young and bashful Rachel, whose shyness keeps her from being able to express her inner brilliance. A prominent literary technique shown by Cisneros throughout the story is imagery.
Rachel’s views herself in “Eleven,” is that she’s growing up and she doesn’t know how to handle it. There are many reasons and evidence, to back up why I feel this way. “How do you think Rachel views herself?” When I saw the question, I thought about when Rachel said, “And when you wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven, but you don’t.” (Cisneros 99)
In her essay, Eleven, Sandra Cisneros narrates the story of Rachel’s ruined eleventh birthday. Cisneros uses this to characterize Rachel as insecure about her age, shy and sensitive, especially when talking to adults, and intelligent, as shown in her description of the different ages people have within them and how they act can be attributed to them feeling a certain age. This is done through the use of figurative language, syntax, and diction. Rachel’s insecurity in regards to her age can be seen in her incident with Mrs. Price, during which she says, “I wish I didn’t have only eleven years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box”(Cisneros, 29-30).
Most people can tell how people act, but do they really know the struggle they are facing? In the story “Eleven” Rachel was having a hard time showing who she really was and she also went through many emotional changes in her eleventh birthday. In the story Eleven we learn birthdays are very special, but they do not represent emotional changes through the author’s use of simile, symbolism, and imagery. In this interesting story Eleven by Sandra Cisneros use simile, and symbolism to state, birthday are very special, but they do not represent your emotional changes.
In the book “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, the main character Rachel is an eleven-year-old girl hence the title. However, today is her birthday and she is super excited to go home and celebrate her turning eleven. But when her teacher and peers turn on her and falsely accuse her of owning the ugly red sweater, Rachel's day takes a turn for the worst. Where our story takes place in Rachel’s school, where her teacher blames her for owning a red sweater that they found laying on the classroom’s floor. The main idea of this text is Rachel is a pushover around her peers and teachers.
In the story "Eleven," Sandra Cisneros writes, "What they don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you're eleven, you're also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one.” Sandra Cisneros is saying that a person is not just the one age, but all the previous ages before. In the text, Sandra makes a point. “You will need to cry like if you are three.”
Sandra Cisneros’ short story “Eleven”, poem “My Wicked Wicked Ways”, and book The House on Mango Street have many similarities and differences in terms of style, tone, theme, character and setting. In the short story “Eleven”, Sandra Cisneros manages to convey a powerful message about growing up from the perspective of an eleven year old. The story starts out with Rachel, the protagonist, who is turning eleven today. It starts out with her at school while she's in math class.
Have you ever had a bad day where you're teacher forced you to do something you didn't want to do, in school, in front of everyone? In this short story, “Eleven” written by Sandra Cisneros, Since Rachel doesn't care about birthdays, she is feeling different types of emotions and each different line in the short story, which are crestfallen,angry, and bashful. Rachel is crestfallen when her day was being ruined. As the plot unfolds she talks back the Mrs.Price showing she is angry. Lastly, she bashful, when she is shy to answer Mrs.Price question.or things who are sad or discouraged from someone saying mean things.
