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.
After Mrs. Price tells Rachel to but on the sweater and Rachel does the first sense she uses is smell Rachel says “when I put one arm through one sleeve of the sweater that smells like cottage cheese”, it puts the reader right there with Rachel you start to think what cottage cheese smells like. Then soon after that she uses touch, Rachel says “with my arms apart like if the sweater hurts me and it does, all itchy and full of germs that aren’t even mine” still the author does a good job on making you feel like you are there, she also makes you think on what an itchy sweater feels like. The sense of hearing was kind of hard because after Rachel puts on the sweater, starts crying, Phyllis Lopez says it’s hers Rachel says “There’ll be candles and presents and everybody will sing Happy birthday, happy birthday to you, Rachel”, even though this isn’t happening in the classroom she imagines it and can hear
The narrator's profound admiration for Hugh serves as a symbol, underscoring the stark contrast in childhood experiences between those who are perceived as "strange" and those who are not. Hugh's can be portrayed as a "different in a good way" individual, benefiting from societal norms as a tall, white male. This emphasizes the inherent advantage experienced by those who conform to societal standards, highlighting the potential ease of their childhood compared to those who are perceived as "different”. Another example of the hardships of being different in childhood is the experience of Rachel Grenier, a marginalized and bullied girl with a troubled past. Rachels bullying becomes apparent when the narrator says, “Christy, a bully with one green eye and one brown, and her henchmen, finished in the showers and made their way into the common area to tease the lesser of the group.
Rachel Price is a beautiful young girl who joins her family on a one year mission trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo. She is a girl who likes herself a little too much. She is completely vain and self-conscious. Rachel is constantly worried about her appearance, as most teenage girls are in the United States. She brings along with her a mirror just to keep in touch with herself.
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".
Macy Scharpf Chin Honors English 9, Period 4 23 January 2023 Past events can often define the actions someone takes and who they are in the present. If society takes the time to analyze these actions, individuals can figure out the feelings of one another in a certain moment. “Speak” by Laurie Halse Anderson delineates the thoughts and feelings of a teenage girl, Melinda, as she navigates the highs and lows of high school, while carrying the weight of a past traumatic event. In the passage from the book, “Speak”, author Laurie Halse Anderson uses different types of figurative language such as similes and metaphors, as well as repetition to reveal Melinda’s negative thoughts on her past and current feelings about high school.
Ray Bradbury’s story”The Sound of Summer Running” And Sandra Cisneros 's story”Eleven both of the characters Douglas and Rachel both put on a piece of clothing and their emotions are different from each other. Douglas puts on a new pair of shoes and is happy about that, here is my support from the story,’’j. While In Eleven Rachel has to put on a ugly sweater that smelled like cottage cheese here is my support from the story,”That’s when everything I’ve been holding in since this morning, since when Mrs.Price put the sweater on my desk, finally lets go, and all of a sudden I’m crying in front of everybody.”
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.
Station Eleven is a story filled with many different plotlines and backstories, all intricately woven together to paint a fascinating image of life after the Georgia Flu pandemic. The character development is one of the most intriguing parts of the novel, as the reader is surprised again and again with the actions and connections of each figure. Many of the characters enter both as background members in some scenes and as main characters in others, so that their stories flow smoothly with the others. Two characters that this can be applied to are Tyler, Arthur’s son, and Kirsten, a child actor turned into a performer with a travelling groupe after the near-extinction of the human race. They both grew and developed out of this tragedy, being
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)
This young girl is fighting with her emotions and is going against reality to find out the real truth about her life and what really happened. Below is how the young girl manages to do all that and what struggles she faces while trying to find the impossible. This also shows a deeper look of how much this young girl grew mentally throughout the book. In the novel, the author tells
She, for one night each year, donned a mask in the hope of normalcy. This is the only time she believed she was happy. Every other day in her youth and adolescence she was faced with constant adversity. Her own mother was unsupportive and only aided Lucy in
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.
The 19th century in Europe is marked as one of the most revolutionary periods in medical history. This is due to the fact that science and statistical analysis were integrated in proving the cause of urban plagues such as typhus, yellow fever, and cholera. Louis-René Villermé and other hygienists came onto the scene between the 1820-1840’s to investigate the epidemiology of 19th century diseases, and concluded that there was a significant correlation between disease and poverty; epidemics such as cholera, nearly always caused more deaths in the impoverished population than the rich. This had to do with the rich having more resources to practice hygiene and live in sanitary conditions. Villermé, a French public health advocate, concluded that,
This because she is a capricious protagonist who can be perceived as utterly, unstable and unreliable. In one passage she cries and feels pity for herself, and in the following she expresses maternal compassion and care for others. Alice’s constant changes in size are puzzling for her. She seems to struggle in order to comprehend her identity, but the various oscillations in size and in life phases cause considerable confusion on her. The concept of identity can be also associated to an adolescent’s socio-emotional development.
