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,...
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.
Mrs.Price finds it hard to believe that the sweater isn’t Rachel's because it has been in her classroom for along time so when she asked whose it is and someone says it’s rachels. Mrs. Price is going to think it is hers. When Rachel and Mrs. Price were arguing back and forth no matter what rachel says Mrs.Price has more power over her because she's the teacher. So it's hard to believe that the sweater wasn’t Rachel’s because only one person is saying that it is hers and no one else is admitting that it is there’s. She comes to the conclusion that the sweater was Rachel by everone in the class saying it was Rachel’s for example in the story Sylvia Saldivar says “i think it belongs to Rachel”.
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 "Tenth Day: Tenth Story" innovates upon the form of the allegorical tale by revealing complexity throught the characters Griselda and Gualtieri. Throughout the text, Griselda seems to be seen as a loyal and patient woman, yet on the otherside she has detached emotions with herself. For example: when Gualtieri makes her believethat her children are dead, she is emotionlessand is loyal to her husbands side. Additonally, the narrator employs complex characteristcs with Gualiteri as well. The ambiguity of Gualiteri 's persona with in constant change between his subjects and his loyal wife.
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”.
Around the age of 7-11 I remember I would always play kick play at school. I would always be the person who rolls the ball for the other team to kick. I remember one time the ball was rolling in front me and I was trying to pick it up but another person ran up behind me to try to get the ball but instead of that he step and smash on to my finger. That accident left a small scarf on my index finger for life.
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.
The Fan Club Did you know that an average of 160,000 teens will skip school everyday due to bullying? Information found from dosomething.org. Man, that's a lot of students who are affected that much, then feel the need to skip school due to pain and embarrassment. In the story, The Fan Club, by Rona Maynard main character Laura feels as if popular crowd is snickering and whispering behind her back. She is struggling internally trying to understand why.
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).
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.
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.
Miss Moore, a mentor plans a summer trip for the children in Harlem to an expensive toy shop, F.A.O Schwarz to teach them a lesson about the value of money. One of the children is Sylvia and she has an arrogant behavior by saying, “Back in the days when everyone was old and stupid or young and foolish and me and Sugar were the only ones just right” (Bambara 304). Sylvia thinks that she is the smartest person in their neighborhood until Miss Moore comes. Sylvia does not like Miss Moore at all and she “kinda hate her too” (304). She hates Miss Moore because she feels that someone is better and smarter than her in their neighborhood.
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.
Cassie, the narrator leads us through all the disaster and trouble that her and her family have been through. Cassie's interactions with negative uses of power is directly responsible for Cassie's coming of age. Cassie starts coming of age by taking care of Little Man, and standing up for Little man against people. Every morning, during the way to school Cassie
