Eleven By Sandra Cisneros Analysis

The friends of the narrator, however, do not hide in the imaginary world of childhood and are maturing into adolescents. Sally, “ screamed if she got her stockings muddy,” felt they were too old to “ the games” (paragraph 9). Sally stayed by the curb and talked to the boys (paragraph 10).

When readers read a story written by an author they will usually think that the author likes to read books and is what led the author to writing a book. William Goldman said, “As a child, I had no Interest in reading” (Goldman 3), this can lead readers to imagining the author as a young child rather than an adult not wanting to read a book. When Readers imagine the author as a young child the image imagined can give a better sense of how the author felt as a young child. The imagination of a child giving the reader a picture to think about is less complex than that of a adult giving a reader a picture to think about.

words in the book are not trying to offend the reader there trying to tell and story and illustrate

The Effect on the Audience “I’m very anxious not to fall into archaism or “literary” diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive,” says American Novelist, James Agee. Diction is the election of words that authors use to convey messages to appropriate audiences. Writers have the ability to alter the level of diction throughout the literary piece in order to impact different levels of comprehension.

In the story Only Daughter, the narrator and author face a challenge that is only hard on them because others do not understand. Sandra Cisneros feels invisible in her family with six other brothers. At times her father treats her kindly while other times he hurts her without knowing that he does. Her father hurts her by saying he has seven sons when he only has six and a daughter. When her father says he has seven sons he tries to make people feel bad for him; they give him free things because they feel sorry for him. Cisneros does not like how her father acts when he says seven sons; he gets his way by lying.

“He meant siete hijos, seven children, but he translated it as “sons”.” This is one of the challenges the author faced growing up in a mexican-american family. The author speaks about how her culture and the way she wanted to live and be understood were always under conflict. The author is very persuasive because she is a mexican american and is able to find a midpoint between two cultures.

unfamiliar with the new world that has been placed around them. The novel S​old,​b​y Patricia McCormick, begins with a young girl named Lakshmi, living in a small village in Nepal with her mother, baby brother, and an unworthy step­father. Even though she is dreadfully poor, she is happy and lives a life of wonder and imagination with her best friend, but all too soon, everything changes when the monsoons destroy the family crops. The story continues with Lakshmi leaving to earn money to support her family and learning an unbelievable truth: she has been sold into prostitution. This novel taught me the importance of making sacrifices for loved ones and finding companions

My favorite story is the story of Eleven by Sandra Cisneros. The reason that it is my favorite because It was the first story that I heard as a child. But this story has much greater meaning for me. It was my junior year in high school, My reading teacher's name was Mrs. Morning. She assigned us the task to pick a story and she told us it was due by the end of the year. We would be telling the story in front of the class. That we should be able by year end to do this easily. I was not looking forward to it. And I must have rolled my eyes or something, I think she noticed because she asked me what my favorite story was. I told her Eleven. She continued to tell me that I would be able to tell the story. Being a teenager I just shrugged her off and pretty much labeled the class easy A but to my surprise as we got closer to end of the year.

Sandra Cisneros, an American novelist, poet, and short story writer, born in December 20, 1954, and is best known for her first novel of “the house on mango street”, she is also a winner of a couple of prizes including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and is regarded as a key figure in Chicana literature (is literature written by Mexican Americans in the united states.) Sandra has also written books such as: “Have you seen Marie?” , “Loose woman and woman hollering creek”, and “Eleven.” Eleven was published August 2010. Eleven is a short story about a young girl named Rachel who explains to the readers that “[what we] don’t understand about birthdays and what they will never tell [us] is that when your eleven your also ten, and

The two poems I chose to analyze were “Curandera” by Pat Mora and “Loose Woman” by Sandra Cisneros. They were an interesting read and made sure to reread several times to make sure I got everything I could from them. Both poems are so unique from other poems I have read; they are also unique from each other yet share similarities as well.

Scott Kruh’s “14” is a story about a Jewish boy who loves America. When reading the story, the author gives hints to his reader’s about the narrator being a pro-American, Jewish boy. “My Israeli Son” and “summers were fun, my grandmother lived in Jerusalem and I spent days exploring mysterious alleys of white stone and strange shells” (1). We know the narrator loves America when it was stated “My favorite subject in school was American history” (1).

Have you ever been in a situation where you feel uncomfortable, like your being controlled? Well, Rachel knows exactly how that feels. In Eleven, by Sandra Cisneros, which is a short story. Rachel battles all of that stuff and more. The theme for Eleven is, It can be hard to stand up for yourself.

Music is a short poem or other set of words set to music or meant to be sung. Music can also be interpreted in so many ways which is why it is a symbolic thing. When I read the play “Trifles” written by Susan Glaspell, many songs came into my head in relation to the play. There are many songs I believe that can relate to this story because there is so much emotion involved. Minnie Foster is whom the story is actually based around, even though she's not in any of the scenes. She was a happy outgoing person who loved to sing, dress nice, and be around people in general, but once she married her freedom was taken from her. Her husband did not show her affection and he didn't even want to have kids, so she was extremely lonely. She did have a pet bird that she felt a deep connection with because she too felt caged and wanted to be free. In this essay I will be talking about some songs that I felt represents the lack of women respect during that time period, as well as focusing on Minnie as a person prior to her marriage and her relationship with her husband.

She gives Rachel’s thoughts instead of just details so we can view and relate, she gives examples of her feelings so she not just an unemotional robot, and she gives examples to how Rachel is feeling. An example of all of these (in order) is; “I wish I was invisible but i’m not…” showing she wants to become invisible which readers can relate to, “Because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion or the rings on a tree trunk or like my little wooden dolls that fit inside the other, on year after the next one.” This implies that she thinks you become all the ages you’ve

When things are not always what they seem to be a dramatic change in the meaning affects the surrounding moment. Whether people are misguided by someone who said something they did not mean to or due to them not saying something at all, there are multiple reasons why a situation may become misunderstood. “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell presents a dramatic shift in what is known which cripples the original meaning and poses a new thought or idea. The structure of “Trifles” involves numerous pieces of irony that builds upon the story and, if not there, may change the very meaning of the work.