She was immature whatever she was doing because she was only eleven at that time. Nea mom also mentions that “You are not thinking. That your problem. You always not think.”
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 Chapter 9-14 Holden Caulfield leaves Penecy Prep and heads to New York City. Where he will stay for a couple days before winter vacation starts and he will head home. Delaying breaking the news to his family he got kicked out of school for as long as possible. These chapters are where Holden’s loneliness becomes abundantly clear. The reader is subjected to many long rants by Holden about the company he wants, though he attempts to settle several times.
On page 151 Of “Eleven” Rachel also feels deep emotion after putting a red sweater on. “That’s when everything I’ve been holding in since this morning, since when Mrs. Price put the sweater on my desk, finally lets
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.”
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.
11thchapter On the next day, the pledges take a trip to the fence around Chicago. Tris had another nightmarish, this time Peter mistreating her to get her to admit to being changed. They take the train to the screen, with Tris staring at Four's forces the whole way Intelligent. The screen around Chicago is guarded by guns, though no one knows what they're keeping out or keeping in.
Tween or Child? Kamalika Kummathi Critical Thinking/ S2 In the story “Eleven,” Rachel, the narrator, acts more like a child than a tween. The text mentioned that the “sweater hurts me and it is itchy and full of germs that aren’t mine.” (Paragraph 18)
Stories are the foundation of relationships. They represent the shared lessons, the memories, and the feelings between people. But often times, those stories are mistakenly left unspoken; often times, the weight of the impending future mutes the stories, and what remains is nothing more than self-destructive questions and emotions that “add up to silence” (Lee. 23). In “A Story” by Li-Young Lee, Lee uses economic imagery of the transient present and the inevitable and fear-igniting future, a third person omniscient point of view that shifts between the father’s and son’s perspective and between the present and future, and emotional diction to depict the undying love between a father and a son shadowed by the fear of change and to illuminate the damage caused by silence and the differences between childhood and adulthood perception. “A Story” is essentially a pencil sketch of the juxtaposition between the father’s biggest fear and the beautiful present he is unable to enjoy.
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.
Rachel Watson is not a good person. She is obsessive, petty, manipulative, and is delusional at the best of times. However, she has a some redeeming characteristic, her strong sense of morality and hate for greed and selfishness. Over the course of the novel Rachel exhibits an unnerving amount of obsessive behavior. Rachel knows Megan and Scott’s lives, their habits, and the house they live in, claiming to know the “color of the the curtains in the upstairs bedroom [...] the paint peeling off the bathroom window frame and that there are four tiles missing from a section of the roof on the right-hand side”, while undoubtedly creepy and possibly untrue, it reveals another side of Rachel, an observant and slightly delusional side.
In her internal dialogue she enounces, “Today I'm eleven. There's cake Mama’s making for tonight, and when papa comes home from work we'll eat it. They will sing Hapoy Birthday, happy birthday to you Rachel, only it's to late.” For Rachel her day has been crippled at school and wishes this day could be long gone. This internal dialogue illustrates how much Rachel is
She was feeling like a younger person. Rachel stated, “When you wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven, but you don’t… You don’t feel like you’re eleven at all. You feel like you’re still ten. And you are-- underneath the year that makes you eleven “ (1).
Reading Response Three Many details in the tales told by the three old men in pages 1190--1197 are relevant to Shahrayar 's situation. Shahrazad is using these details to change him from an angry, misogynistic murderer into a loving husband. Through storytelling, Shahrazad is able to change Shahrayar in three ways. After Shahrayar was betrayed by his wife he became cruel and violent because of the pain he was in.
"The Night Driver" is a short story by Italo Calvino (1967) that emphasize the struggles of human relations and technology in a postmodern era. The narrator, which I 've concluded is X, gets into an agreement with his girlfriend, and she tells him that she 'll go after Z, his rival. To save their relationship, X, drives through the rain at night to see her. As he is driving on the superhighway, he fancies the thought of her driving towards him in the other direction, along with other cars and even X on the superhighway. A character 's inner journey shows how much a character goes through changes –whether good or bad- in the story.
