An Essay On Eleven By Sandra Cisneros

In Michael Gerard Bauer’s novel “Don’t Call Me Ishmael”, Ishmael went through being bullied by Barry, feinting in front on his first debate, falling in love for the first time, and making new friends. This results in Ishmael labelling his Year Nine experience as “the toughest, the weirdest, the most embarrassingly awful and the best” year of his

The authors of both pieces of literature demonstrate the concept that change is not instantaneous in a more concrete connotation. In the sample of “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, the text discusses the concept that as a young child grows, they also retain physical attributes, and may occasionally feel the need to express them. For example, the narrator states that “one day when you're all grown up, maybe you will need to cry like if you're three.” This physical action is necessary in humans from a very young age upward. Eventually, someone may learn to control their actions, and will change their personality enough so as not to be so emotional. However, this change takes a very long time. In the poem “Same Song,” both children desire to alter,

In the piece Eleven, a young girl Rachel uses specific choice of words as well as some figurative language to show her strong feelings towards the old ragged red sweater that was mistaken for hers. When her teacher Mrs. Price had mistakenly assumed that the sweater was hers, and placed the sweater on her desk. Rachel looks back on the incident and exclaims “Only today I wish I didn't have inky eleven years rattling inside me like pennies in a Band-Aid box. Today I wish I was one hundred and two instead of eleven because if I was one hundred and two I'd have known what to say when

The most important lesson for Rachel that comes out of this situation is that after wearing the disgusted sweater she has become even older, and it was tied to the experience instead of the birthday itself. She understands that it is the challenge she needs to grow up faster as she will receive additional benefits of behaving the way she wants and resisting to the outside irritators. As for the literature techniques, the author applies language, diction and symbolism to reveal the issues of experience, aging, knowledge, power, authority and freedom. The discovering is gaining age are conveyed with the help of the memories of eleven-year-old girl on her birthday. Rachel resists her humiliation from Mrs. Pierce, and that is the exact moment when her “smart eleven” comes as well[2].

In the story “Eleven”,Rachel is forced to wear and ugly burgundy-colored sweater,by her teacher, that symbolizes lack of maturity,weakness,and power. There are multiple lines in this story that

Theme is the message of the story that the author wants the reader to take away from the story. In the short story “Seventh Grade” by Gary Soto. The theme is don’t pretend to be someone you are not. For example, Mr.Bueller remembers his story about how he tried to impress his girlfriend by renting different cars every time they had a date. This led to him to running out of money. He pretended to be someone he was not. Victor also tried to be someone he was not by pretending to know how to speak French fluently to impress his crush, Teresa. Luckily, no one pointed out that VIctor didn’t know French, so he wasn’t embarrassed in front of the whole class, including Teresa.

Rachel is obsessed with the idea of being perfect and needing to uphold an image of perfection, however she has finally realized this is not attainable. Living in the Congo is an

In “Eleven”, written by Sandra Cisneros, Cisneros uses literary techniques such as diction and imagery to characterize Rachel’s character during her transition from age ten to age 11. These literary techniques help to describe how Rachel feels in certain situations while also explaining her qualities and traits. Through the use of these literary techniques Cisneros also collaborated on Rachel’s feelings when she was other ages and how she felt at that time during her life.

In the short stories Eleven by Sandra Cisneros and On Turning Ten by Billy Collins both authors use multiple literary devices to achieve the theme of aging. In Eleven Sandra Cisneros uses figurative language, symbolism and mood to create the theme of aging. While in On Turning Ten the author uses word choice, figurative language and mood. The two of these authors use these literary devices to add to the theme but in different ways. These short stories both compare and contrast in their ways of achieving the theme of mood through figurative language.

The inner battle continues through use of similes and syntax patterns. Cisneros brilliantly weaves a series of vivid metaphors that of an eleven year old to further portray Rachel’s character. “Today I wish I didn’t have only eleven years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin band-aid box.” This simile characterizes Rachel as not only a child but also portrays her desire to be older. The image evokes a childish habit of collecting pennies in a tin-box, a juvenile form of a most precious piggy bank. But in addition to labeling Rachel’s age, it also hints at her feelings of wanting out. Rachel feels trapped by her ripe young age of eleven because she feels as if she doesn’t have the years behind her to justify her non-acceptance of the sweater. Afraid to say no and stand up for herself, Rachel unwillingly has to take the sweater, which “smells like cottage cheese” and hangs over the edge of her desk “like a waterfall.” Again, we see glances into Rachel’s mind and how she envisions the dreadful sweater. The images allow us to see into an eleven year old’s thoughts and see how the situation looks from a child’s eyes. Telling it like it is, as Rachel seems to do quite often, she describes the smell as cottage cheese, a

Cisneros benefits from her usage of voice to show how Rachel, the main character, struggles with growing up and to help readers relate to her. Rachel describes that “when you wake up you expect to feel eleven, but you don’t” (Cisneros 1). Explaining how she doesn’t feel a year older on her birthday, she says that she expects to. This shows how eager she is to grow up, but she’s impatient at the thought of it. However, although she wishes to be older, growing up doesn’t happen all at once. Rachel also illustrates how she’s eleven, but she says “I wish I was one hundred and two” (Cisneros

In the short story, “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, a young child named Rachel experienced her eleventh birthday in a classroom. As the story progresses there is a change in the tone- from nonchalant to sadness to anger. Cisneros uses various forms of figurative language throughout “Eleven”, such as repetition, metaphors and similes, and symbolism.

There were many relationships on The Girl Who Fell From the sky, one relationship is between Rachel and her grandma, now their relationship isn't bad but it isn't good as in Rachel and her grandma both have different perspectives on the world.”You think too much”(Heidi W. Durrow,2013,p. 34) This quote shows a basic amount of what grandma thinks about Rachel reading so many books as grandma said she wasn't allowed to attend private school and never got the chance to get into books.

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Rachel grew up in a house hold where she had to grow up really quick. In her early teenage years she witnesses her mom struggle through abusive relationships with her step dad and other boyfriends that came after. She eventually became an alcoholic. By the time Rachel was 13 year old, she dropped out of school to take the role of the emotional and financial care taker of her mother. Living in her