EVELEEN In the story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros. The girl Rachel is very insecure about herself. Rachel's birthday is coming up soon and she has a not very great day at school on her birthday. I am going to give you three reasons on how Rachel is very insecure.
In “How to Handle a Bully,” by Kathiann Kowalski, an experienced journalist, Kowalski reports the different strategies to stop bullying. She informs that bullying is at its peak in the late teenage years, but can start in an early age. Kowalski concurs that girls intimidates as much as boys; however, they do it differently. She explores many reasons why bullying occurs at the first place, and who starts bullying. Kowalski exemplifies the situations that victims could be in, and the solution on how to handle the bully.
The story, Eleven, by Sandra Cisneros, is about a girl named Rachel and an awful red sweater. Rachel is forced to wear the sweater, although it isn’t hers. We can learn from this book to stand up for ourselves. Rachel didn’t and was forced to wear the sweater even though it wasn’t hers. She also got embarrassed in front of the entire class, and to top things off, her birthday was ruined.
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.
“Eleven” Juxtaposition Analysis Many people do not like getting older and want to restore their youth. In the short story, “Eleven,” the main character, Rachel, struggles with growing up while she still feels like her younger self. Her younger self shows when her teacher does not believe her when she says a sweater is not hers, then makes her put the sweater on. In the short story, “Eleven,” author Sandra Cisneros uses juxtaposition to develop the theme of mental age versus physical age. The author, Sandra Cisneros, uses juxtaposition many times in the story.
Bullying harms people. In “The Girl Who Loved Her Horses” Drew Hayden Taylor explored that emotional abuse can negatively impact people. Danielle experienced many emotional abuse in her life such as getting bullied at school and at home by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend. This can result in major side effects to a child's life such as mental issues, depression, and stress. “Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.”
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.
The video “to this day” by Shane Koyczan, based on the poem by the same name, reveals the permanence of the emotional damage bullying causes the victims. In addition, two interviews with the poet reveal his personal experiences with bullying. The poem explains how he mainly got bullied throughout his whole childhood, and how that really ruined his future, how people are constantly calling you names and labeling you for your appearance. In this poem the bullied child overcame the bullies and became famous because of telling his own story, his own point of view, his own experience. To start with, how all the bullying beginned with was all because a simple innocent thing all kids do, confuse two words or think their the same and have the same meaning.
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 “ELEVEN”, a girl called “Rachel” goes to school on the day of her Birthday. As a result of many actions that take place that day, she end up crying. Rachel's character is developed through repetition, imagery, and the Order of events. throughout the story repetition was used to State points. The use of repetition was used to emphasize The point that the sweater was not Rachel's.
Wim Wenders with full name Ernst Wilhelm Wenders was born in Düsseldorf in August 14,1945. He graduated from high school in Oberhausen. After that he studied medicine in Freiburg and philosophy in Düsseldorf between in the 1963 – 1965. However, he left the university and moved to Paris in 1966 to become a painter. After that, he failed on the entry test at France's national film school IDHEC.
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.
This article explains what is bullying exactly. Bullying is any form of psychological, verbal, or physical abuse that occurs repeatedly among schoolchildren over a period. Statistically, the dominant type of violence is emotional and occurs mostly in the classroom and courtyard of schools. Bullying is a kind of torture, methodical and systematic, in which the aggressor sums up the victim, often with silence, indifference or complicity of other comrades. The author explains some characteristic and consequences of bullying.
Bullying is an undesirable, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves actual disparity of power. According to Megan Brooks bullying is a serious public health problems, with significant short-and long-term psychological consequences for the child who is bullied and the child who is the bully. This only tells us that bullying can lead to difficulty that a certain children may experience and will have either short or long term problem. “Bullying has long been tolerated as a rite of passage among children and adolescents, but it has lasting, negative consequences and cannot simply be ignored.” Committee chair Frederick Rivera, MD.
Bullying has been named an “emerging public health issue requiring intervention” (Ansary, Elias, Greene, & Green, 2015, p. 27). As a major problem in schools around the world, the issue of bullying must be addressed in order to keep students physically and emotionally safe. The act of bullying not only affects the well-being of the person being targeted, but it also affects the rest of the school community too. It can be difficult for teachers, principals, and superintendents to make an ethical decision about what to do when bullying occurs because there are misunderstandings about what bullying is, leading to the improper identification of situations.
