33 Just picturing her in her satin gown and a Congolese diamond digger in the same universe gave me the weebie jeebies. So I didn’t think about it anymore. Rachel, as the oldest, portrays maturity and wise more than the other sisters but then diminishes it by discarding the topic at hand. Rachel, the eldest sister, has further considerations and more insightful worries than the other siblings.
For the most part it's like Ruthie is a child. The author uses things like similes to portray Ruthie’s childlike character. The author uses literary elements such as diction and figurative language to portray Ruthie’s childlike character by using things like similes to portray Ruthie’s childlike character. Ruthie is childlike because she likes balloons.
In the short story Eleven by Sandra Cisneros Rachel clemonstreats her multiple years of her eleven years old self two important times. One time Rachel asks less than is three because she has a sweet shirt that is not hers. She don't want the sweatshirt the sweatshirt is not her but she don't say anything. The teacher put on her deck and the teacher tell her to put it on.
In the beginning of the book all her old friends would make faces at her and not say anything but by the end of the book Rachelle started to realize that things happened to her and she needed her. When Melinda first gets to school she is trying to find someone to sit by in the auditorium for freshman orientation. While she is doing that she thinks to herself, "The kids behind me laugh so loud I know they're laughing about me.
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”.
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.
Considering that Knowles' actually wrote the book with an adult audience in mind, the portrayal of the older is innocence. One of the smartest things Knowles does throughout the novel that still sends a message to anyone who reads the book is that adults can be innocent too. Whether fabricated or simply lacking in authority, adults can gain some innocence back, just as children lose innocence. (Examples) Mr. Patch-Withers and other adults succumb to the "selfish" ways during the summer session of Devon.
Shame and the Power Hierarchies in Cisneros Author of I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame, Brene Brown, wrote in her book, “We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others” (Shame). Shame is an effect of the situations each person has to face and can feel negatively about. Each person feels shame differently as some people ignore this shame; others feel the weight of the shame on them.
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 this assignment I will discuss, compare, contrast and appraise between the constitutional architecture of South Africa and that of the United States of America. History The history of the American constitution puts a lot of emphasis on the Declaration of Independence. Like the South African history of colonialism and segregation, the American constitution is indirectly structured to ensure that the injustices of the past are not repeated.
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
Read this essay made by me, Rebecca Nylund, to see what character trait the characters represent more. The best character to start with is Rachel, from Eleven by Sandra Cisnero. One of the character traits I believe she possesses is that she’s sensitive. For example, in the story it states that she started to cry in front of the class on page 235. I’m pretty sensitive, but even if everyone’s eyes is on me I probably would have at least held it in.
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.
