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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.
Sandra Cisneros the author of Eleven she uses a lot of similes, and senses to make the reader feel like they are there in the classroom with Rachel. When Rachel is explaining “when you you are growing old it’s like an onion, or like the rings in a tree, or like the little wooden dolls that fit one inside the other, one year after another”. Sandra makes more similes throughout the story but this simile is the best on because, it’s probably the more accurate one as you get older so does your body, you get taller until you stop growing, then when you get about your late 30s early 40s you start to get gray hair plus the wrinkles start to come out. She wasn’t exactly saying that, but what she was trying to say is, even when you are getting older you don’t feel that way, you still have a little five year old who wants to come out and play.
Rachel’s entire birthday was ruined because of the ugly red sweater. She felt upset and embarrassed all at once in front of everyone. She hated that she was forced to wear the sweater. Some evidence from the text for her birthday being ruined is “I'm eleven today. I'm eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, and one, but I wish I was one hundred and two.
“I put my head down on my desk and bury my face into my stupid clown arms.” As stated by the story. The person crying and putting their arms down into their arms is a cliché reaction to crying in public with children, not tweens. A tween in a situation like this would most likely try to hold it back better, or better yet, act like nothings happening to
It was a normal sunny day. Samantha was abandoned by the parents at age 15. Samantha woke up knowing that she was not alone in her house. She felt this type of presence with her in her room. She gets a phone call from her friends she had met the day before.
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.
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".
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.
In the story of Eleven Rachel fells lonely because she couldn’t explains to her teacher that the raggedy swather wasn’t her and some of the classmates of Rachel agreed that the ugly swather belongs to Rachel. She fells unhappy in her eleventh birthday and she wished that she was one hundred and two instead of eleven and she likes to be far away like runaway balloon. Ruri in the story of Bracelet fells sad because she has to left her house in Japan for word war two and also she was upset because she had lost her bracelet that her best friend gave it to her and she feel lonely because she promised her best friend that she wasn’t going to take the bracelet off so things we can carry in our hearts and take with us no matter where we are
One major theme in Sandra Cisneros's short story “Eleven” is the coming of age. Cisneros opens the short story with our narrator's observations on aging. Rachel has already noticed that birthdays are symbolic, but do not literally represent emotional evolution. Rachel has noticed that her mother cries and gently reminds readers that it's okay for adults to cry. She reminds the readers that no matter the age all human beings can feel vulnerability and pain.
She was so mad. She thought the kid was just making fun of her the WHOLE time. So every time she was asked a question
Have you ever felt that on your birthday that you have not even grown one bit. That is just how Rachel feels. In the short story, ¨Eleven,¨ the author, Sandra Cisneros, illustrates how birthday 's can change who you are, and no matter what age you are turning, you are still all of those younger ages inside. In the beginning, Rachel is turning 11. She doesn´t feel any different.
She wants to act like a teenager but doesn’t want to grow up. She knows that growing up isn’t all what it’s cut out to be and decides in the end that she wants to take her time in growing up and getting
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