Claiming The Sweaters Summary

In the beginning of the story, When Rachel woke up, her friend Missy called her and told her the news, Tommy Feathers was dead. When she heard the detective tell the suspect that “ he had the right to remain silent” all of a sudden Rachel stopped talking. Bastian Fauvell was a mean

In “Eleven,” Rachel’s teacher, Mrs. Price, hears from a student, Sylvia that the student belongs to Rachel. Mrs. Price thought she was correct since at first because Sylvia all of the sudden gave her the idea that it is Rachel, and Mrs. Price goes along with it. In lines 47-50 it states, “That’s not, I don't, you're not… Not mine.”.....”Of course it's yours! Mrs. Price says I remember you wearing it once.”

Price puts the sweater on her desk. In the text it states that “‘That's not, I didn't, you're not... not mine,’ I finally say in a little voice that was maybe me when I was four”.This demonstrates her weakness and lack of self confident because she is unwilling to express that the sweater isn’t hers and that shows how shy and passive Rachel is. Another thing that Rachel says in this story that demonstrates her weakness is the fact that continuously she states “not mine” yet this was not being spoken out loud. A line from the texts shows the reader her

Rachel sends Sarah with a basket of food to get a pass so they can leave Boston. At the time it was necessary. Sarah is able to trade the food for a pass. They quickly pack their stuff and leave Boston. While leaving, they get inspected by British soldiers and are found to be smuggling food. The soldiers try to take the food, only to be yelled at by Lady Frankland, a Tory and close friend of Rachel's, who is also riding into Boston. They move on safely to Watertown.

The next two times Cisneros presents the reader with a simile is to reference the red sweater. After the teacher had put the sweater on Rachel’s desk, she talks about feeling sick and wanting that feeling to go away, but when she opens her eyes and, “the red sweater’s still sitting there like a big red mountain” (n.p.), she begins to think about how to get rid of the sweater. Before she is able to accomplish this Mrs. Price notices how, “it’s hanging over the edge like a waterfall” (n.p.), and demands that Rachel put the sweater on. After this incident, Rachel buries her face in her, “stupid clown-sweater arms” (n.p.). As mentioned earlier the collar and sleeves of the sweater are stretched out. The last use of similes and metaphors in, “Eleven,” is found in the last sentence of the story- “ I want today to be far away already, far away like a runaway balloon, like a tiny o in the sky, so tiny tiny you have to close your eyes to see it” (n.p.). Cisneros is comparing the distance a balloon will travel away from its owner to the distance she wishes this day was away from her.

The author's word choice that she uses helps characterize Rachel very well. For examples, in lines 47-49, the author explained how Mrs.Price tagged the red sweater to Rachel. "Maybe because I'm skinny, maybe she doesn't like me, that stupid Sylvia

I think Rachel was looking for the ways for her independence and willing to protect Bert during the trial. Rachel believed that Bert was innocent.

Well Rachel did When the teacher said, “Who owns this sweater?”, a girl said it was Rachel’s. The teacher said “I remember you wearing it Rachel.” Rachel felt butterflies in her stomach because she knew it was not hers, and it was disgusting. Also, no one stood up for her.This means, it is just one more reason why Rachel should learn to stand up for herself. Rachel was very lonely on her 11th birthday. This is important to notice because, No one was there to make her feel special. Rachel learns to stand up for herself because sometimes others are afraid to

Rachel’s understanding of age reflects her age to grow up. From her point of view, the older you get, the wiser you are. This is why she doesn’t try to keep arguing with Mrs. Price when accused of being the owner of the red sweater. “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 Mrs. Price put the red sweater on my desk.” Rachel feels that if she was older than Mrs. Price then she would've been able to deny that the red sweater was hers. Being able to shut in her emotions, however, shows off her maturity. All the while she was having a heavy internal conflict, she didn’t let it show on the outside.

Not only did she sit there for hours trying to prove her point but she didn’t waste her time though. The man that was accused of killing the young was charge for a year and then he was out of jail because they believe he was incented. After all that hard work trying to get him locks up the court freed him because of Rachel poor testimony

Rachel is a generally nervous person throughout the course of the story. She constantly worries about what the town, and more specifically her father, might think. Lawrence and Lee establish this when Rachel goes to the jail to visit

In the story rachel says, “That’s not, I don’t, you're not… Not mine,” This shows that she doesn’t feel comfortable talking in front of a crowd, therefore she may be a little shy, which obviously isn’t helping her statement, as to the sweater not being hers. Another reason as to why Rachel is shy is when Rachel continuously says she wanted to be anything but eleven. This shows that Rachel was shy or even scared to face conflicts because all she wanted was for it to be over, or never to have happened. Lastly Rachel was shy when Sandra Cisnero told the readers, “I finally say in a little voice”. When the author added “in a little voice” it showed that Rachel was scared and nervous to talk in front of her

Along with that, no one sided or stood up for Rachel when Mrs. Price was yelling at her. This proves that Sylvia and Phyllis don’t want to be Rachel’s friend, nor anyone else in her class. Throughout the story Rachel learns to stand up for herself even when she is nervous. Therefore, Rachel is

Kayla then told her side of the story to Mrs. Smith. Rachel was apparently talking about Kayla’s family problems to other people, which is a private matter. One of the girls, Rachel told the information to, tweeted it out for the whole school to see. To get revenge on Rachel, Kayla thought it was only fair to get her back by embarrassing her to the whole school through social media.

They say all marriages go through something like this” (98). This thought of Rachel’s is interesting. For me, it emphasizes her misconception that women should simply accept infidelity as the norm. Infidelity is defined as a breach of mutual trust in an intimate relationship. In the beginning of the novel, Rachel believes that this definition applies only to women. Subsequently, we observe Rachel to become depressed and deeply saddened as she views herself as the victim being blamed for her husband’s