In the short story by Sandra Cisneros, “Eleven,” the author has a negative, frustrated attitude towards being eleven. The author conveys this by using literary devices such as symbolism, and repetition. The author’s use of symbolism is demonstrated in the red sweater. To the author, the red sweater is something that she is embarrassed about since its “ugly,” “raggedy,” and “old” (25). Similarly, she feels the same about her previous ages that are still a part of her- a burden that simply humiliates her in front of her classmates, as seen when she starts “crying in front of everybody” (53). In addition, the author compares the red sweater to a “big red mountain” that she “moves to the corner of [her] desk,” revealing that it is an enormous