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,...
Rachel attempts to cling to the only thing she knows to be true about herself -- her beauty
Do you feel like you act your own age? DO your emotions ever take over you to the point where you can't handle it? Sandra Cisneros's "Eleven" is a short story that characterizes Rachel. The author conveys figurative language, details, and imagery to describe Rachel.
[...] My lip bleeds a little.”. Her former best friend Rachel or rather Rachelle mouths to Melinda “I hate you”. To bring the pain away from her mind she brings pain to her body. To forget all the things Rachel did, “IT” did. Everytime something triggers her or brings her to the past she resorts to self harm or self degradation.
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.
She is described to have, “sapphire-blue eyes, white eyelashes, and platinum hair that falls to her waist.” (47) There is no doubt she is viewed as a beautiful young girl by the Congolese and there is no doubt why her sisters are jealous of her. The Congo people literally would pull on her hair just because they needed to know it was real hair. Now Rachel looked at the Congo people with a bit more judgement and wonderment than they did.
Yvonne Allen does not have any right to wear her headscarf in her licence photo due to the security issues it would create. She believes that her rights are being infringed upon, but doesn't realize that a licence is a privilege not a right. It is hard to argue this fact when it says literally nowhere in any law or precedent that any U.S. citizen has any right to a licence. Allen only uses two defenses one of which is how her faith is tested “in a way that was humiliating and demeaning”(8), a judge will never consider this as a good defense on why she should get her licence, because it is based on emotions not law. Her other defense was how Muslim women were allowed to wear their own headscarves in their driver's license photos, but this seems
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”.
In the story"Eleven", Rachel acts more like a child than a tween. One reason Rachel acts more like a child is in paragraph five,"If I was one hundred and two I'd have known what to say when Mrs. Price put the red sweater on my desk instead of just sitting with that look on my face and nothing coming out of my mouth". This shows that Rachel acts like a child because she "sat there with that look on my face" or showing emotions without speaking. Another reason might be in paragraph ten said,"I finally say in a little voice that was maybe me when I was four".
In the short story ¨The in Group,¨ an unpopular girl in the eighth grade by the name of Eve is challenged, resulting in added pressure and meager judgement. To begin, Eve attends a small school where very few people fit in, but everyone clandestinely seeks popularity. One day, a popular girl in the class approaches innocent Eve while reading another girl’s diary, and Eve ¨sat down, laughing till [her] side hurt, heard [her] voice finally blend with the other¨ (22-23). Before, Eve was another basic, unknown girl, but when she was put in a burdensome situation, pressure was applied, resulting in her hurting
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.
Often in sermon ministers, pastor persuades their audience to behave in spiritual or moral fashion. Such is the case in ‘’ From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’’ where he describe how the Lord gives sinners a second chance. Edward wanted to impact his audience by appealing to their fear, pity, and vanity. Edward had a powerful impact on his Puritan because of his use of cautions tone, vivid imagery and authority’s language. Edwards’s had powerful impact on his puritan audience because of his use of caution tone.
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.
While reading the story, you can tell in the narrators’ tone that she feels rejected and excluded. She is not happy and I’m sure, just like her family, she wonders “why her?” She is rejected and never accepted for who she really is. She is different. She’s not like anyone else
Even though Laura didn’t start bullying Rachel, she hurt Rachel more than classmates include Diane. Rachel has a different outfit with others, different background, and different interests, that lead her to be a victim of the violence already. First, in the conversation between Laura and Rachel, Laura decided to act kindly to Rachel, although she had many opportunities to be unkind. Follow the flow of the story, Laura has given the speech and the topic for it were acceptation of difference and tolerance, which are basic human rights. At the and of the story, she joined to bullying Rachel and started to laugh at her.
