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Hey, pretend it’s your eleventh birthday and everything is going very well. Then all a sudden something terrible happens and you're in the middle of it. Want to hear more? Keep reading and find out! In Eleven, author Sandra Cisneros reveals a theme: Coming of age. Thus, this story is about Rachel, expecting to feel eleven but she doesn’t. Although, This story takes place in the classroom when Ms. Price claimed that an ugly sweater was Rachel’s. For example, The main character, Rachel, has a conflict when she says, “when you’re eleven, you’re also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one.” Based on this, we can see that Rachel has point when she says when your eleven you all the ages you were before. From that quote, there’s a meaning were the ages you were before still reflects on you, such …show more content…

Price, asked who this ugly red sweater was for and Rachel responded, “Not me”, sounding like a three-year-old. No one can remember who the sweater was for, so Sylvia Saldivar says, “I think it belongs to Rachel.” Not knowing who it was for Ms. Price believes her. When Sylvia said that Ms. Price put the sweater on Rachel’s desktop, Rachel came out with a response saying, “ “That’s not, I don’t, you’re not…Not mine.” sounds like a four-year-old trying to get their words out. For Ms. Price to not know who the sweater is for she still let Rachel have it because she’s always right and the student is wrong. Then, Rachel cries when Ms. Price told her to put the sweater on because she keeps pushing it at the corner of her desk. The other reason why she cries is that it had germs on it that didn’t belong to her. She felt like a two-year-old crying in front of the class and her friends. Sooner or later, The owner of the red sweater, Phyllis Lopez remembers that the sweater is hers. Rachel shoved the sweater off and gave it to Phyllis, Ms. Price acted like everything was okay, which

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