Eleven By Sandra Cisneros And El Similes Analysis

Many people have heard the saying “act your age.” When our birthdays come around most people think that they will fill more mature and act older; yet when our birthdays come around do we really feel any older? Sandra Cisneros remonstrates this in her short story “Eleven,” About a little girl name Rachel on her eleventh birthday. This short story discusses the events that go on during Rachel’s birthday and the emotions that go through her mind during all the experiences that she has on the day of her birthday. In Sandra Cisneros’ outstanding short story, “Eleven,” Cisneros, using characterization and conflict, shakes up a simple and predictable story to show reality rather than stereotypical ideas. Through these two literary devices, Cisneros demonstrates that even though people grow older they do not always feel older and act their age as viewed through the theme.

“Everyone is smart in different ways. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life thinking that it’s stupid.” ― Lynda Mullaly Hunt, Fish In A Tree. The theme of this story is you shouldn’t let anyone make you think that you don’t belong because your different and that were are unique in own special type of way and we should appreciate our differences. This is the theme because Ally learned an important lesson not to care what other people say, to have confidence in yourself, and also to accept differences and express

The novel is narrated by Mattie Cook in the first person. She is only able to speak for herself. The only thoughts and feelings she displays are her own and the story is set wherever she is.

Isolation and loneliness is one of the main themes when it comes to surviving in an isolated

Authors use point of view to send a message. Using different forms of point-of-view sends different messages to the reader. By using point of view effectively, authors can invoke different feelings, emotions, and thoughts in a reader. In The Man from Mars, Margaret Atwood uses the third-person limited point of view to create the feeling of ambiguity seen throughout the short story. This point of view allows the reader to feel the same sense of mystery, danger, and fear that the main protagonist, Christine, feels towards the strange man stalking her. Because of the point of view, the story has this impact. If told from the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person omniscient point of view, the story would be vastly different. By using the 3rd person limited point of view in The Man from Mars, Margaret Atwood allows the reader to feel same sense of mystery that the main character feels while also getting in touch with Christine's inner thoughts.

Isolation can result in a lowered self-esteem. In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the reader can see the impact that isolation has on the main character, Melinda. Melinda sees herself as a person with "Two muddy-circle eyes under black-dash eyebrows, piggy-nose nostrils and a chewed-up horror of a mouth" (Anderson 17). In this passage, we see that Melinda feels degraded just because she has no friends. Teens may also isolate themselves because of their body image. "For some, the desire to look as perfect as these models can become

Each of these 5 perspectives are effectively told in first person, through cell phone texts, journals, and homework assignments, which helped me understand the way the characters think, feel, and act. The author made the characters’ way of speaking match their personality. ““Screw this!” Izzy blurts. “I am SO outta here.” She moves towards the door, but Nerd Girl jumps up and blocks her.”(27). Most chapters end with amazing cliffhangers that make the reader come back for more. “She looks up from her phone, her face white. Her voice a whisper, she says, “...it's not a drill.””(27). The sentences the author wrote were fairly easy to understand as were the characters. There are also a few parts that are somewhat poetic. ““This is real life. Not everything has a story.” Alice smiles. “But every person does.””(85). The author incorporated several references that high school students have, most likely, read or watched in their life. “I read Hamlet in Dunne’s class.”(86). “She knows I love comics. Especially Star Wars

Human beings are not all created the same. People may show similarities, but there are always differences that set us apart. Some people embrace being unique, but some do not accept differences. Because of this, some people alienate others because of their differences. In literature, this topic can be applied to many stories that share the same idea. The idea is that people must accept others who are different from themselves. Even if it is not textually said, the vision of acceptance can be essential to the stories theme

In the story “Eleven” Sandra Cisneros uses diction and imagery to develop Rachel as shy in order to argue that everybody has value even though some of us are not heard. The last sentence of the 5th paragraph states, “ I would’ve known how to tell her it wasn’t mine instead of just sitting there with that look on my face and nothing coming out of my mouth.” This sentence shows us how taciturn she is because she wants to speak, but she just doesn’t know how to say that it wasn’t hers. The text uses imagery to lead us to believe she is shy because it creates a negative picture of a girl just sitting there with her mouth awkwardly open looking like she wants to say something but nothing is coming out. It illustrates to the audience how shy she

Did you ever known someone who acts different from everyone else? In the novel Schooled by Gordan Korman, Capricorn Anderson, or ,Cap,, doesn’t act like everybody else because he and his grandmother live alone hidden from the “hungry money rat race of society”. In the novel Rain can no longer take care of her grandson Cap, because she broke her hip. He has to go to C Average Middle School since his grandmother can’t homeschool him anymore. Rain and Cap are different from other people because they believe in peace not war but society is tough to get through because society has war, bullying, and hurting. Now Cap has to go to school where there will be fights, annoying kids, mean teachers/kids and so much more.

“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them.” This quote from Mitch Albom along with these short stories shows how everyone can be effected by the time period when a child reaches the point in their life when they start understanding how to handle and comprehend some important thig ns and transitions in their lives.

What would it feel like knowing that you're different from everybody else in your community besides one other person? In the book “The Giver” by Lois Lowry it shows the struggles of a boy named Jonas who has just been given the assignment of Receiver of Memory. He doesn't know how to handle being different from the rest of his community. In his community everything's the same.Without experiencing knowledge and wisdom a community cannot grow.

You can feel like the world can crash down sometimes, it happens to everyone. When you try to shut everything out everything can fall. That is why you need to stand up for yourself. In the book, Eleven by Sandra Cisneros, a girl name Rachel has to learn how to stand up for herself on her 11th birthday she tried to shut everything out. Sometimes rachel is overemotional and sensitive. Thats one reason why she should learn to stand up for herself. She is sometimes lonely. Also, she is negative sometimes. So, Rachel learns to have to stick up for herself.

This narrative makes the reader feel as if the characters are speaking to them directly, highlighting their rejection, loneliness and self-dismissal. As the two protagonists use everyday speech it makes them seem more lifelike and appealing to the reader as we feel more involved in the journey that they both go on. We are also given a deeper insight into the boys themselves because if the novels were told from a different perspective we wouldn’t see their viewpoint on certain, important and influential situations. Through the first person narrative we also understand their thought processes and feel their pain, such as when Holden gets upset when he finds out Stradlater is with the girl he used to like. Their view point of different situations allows the reader to further develop their understanding of the characters.

From birth, children are taught to embrace their uniqueness and show it off, except when that uniqueness is perceived as too strange to the world around them. There is an unspoken line that lies between what society deems as normal and not, and once they cross into being “un-normal,” they become isolated, are talked about, and ultimately the people around them attempt to conform them. According to researchers at Texas A&M University, about one in five babies born end up having some type of physical disability ranging from deafness to cerebral palsy (Disability). These children are separated from others due to their impairment, and are sometimes even taught to separate themselves from others, causing them to feel like monsters. A situation