Realistic Fiction Short Story Eleven By Sandra Cisneros

Growing up with parents who are immigrants can present many obstacles for the children of those immigrants. There are many problems people face that we do not even realize. Things happen behind closed doors that we might not even be aware of. Writers Sandra Cisneros and Amy Tan help us become aware of these problems. Both of these authors express those hardships in their stories about growing up with foreign parents. Although their most apparent hardships are about different struggles, both of their stories have a similar underlying theme.

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 short story "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros, a young girl named Rachel is characterized. Through a specific incident, Cisneros shows how Rachel does not act as old as eleven ideally should. Through repetition and metaphor, Cisneros alludes to Rachel?s personality and childish views.

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.

Sandra Cisneros writes a memoir through the eyes of an eleven year old. Turning eleven happens to be a tragic day for the main character, Rachel. Through various literary techniques such as hyperbole, simile, and syntax, Rachel is characterized. Rachel is a fresh turning eleven year old who finds herself in an awful situation on her birthday. Forced to wear a raggedy old sweater that doesn’t belong to her, she makes it defiantly clear her feelings towards the clothing item, and we see this through use of hyperboles. Rachel describes the sweater as ugly and too “stretched out like you could use it for a jump rope.” This extreme exaggeration demonstrates

“Eleven” begins with a contradictory statement, about turning eleven, that even though you turn eleven one is still really ten underneath and that it takes awhile to really transition from being ten to being eleven. This premise that utilizes subtle irony is the basis of “Eleven”; that even though one is a certain age one can still revert back to another age, in actions and feelings only of course, in moments of insecurity. How the author uses irony in this particular piece is through connection with the reader, using the subtlety of the irony to introduce an exaggerated concept of a normal occurrence, one that anyone of any age can relate to. Usually in a story irony is an active part of the plot, although it usually does not actually interact or change the plot it just exists on a conceptual level to entertain or to point a subject out to the reader. “Eleven” is different in a way however, though the irony does only exist conceptual and is not active in “changing” the plot; but it does create the plot in the first place, which is allowing for the main character Rachel to actively make the feeling of emotion turn into a much more in depth action that doesn’t only apply to this certain classroom setting but to anyone of any age, thus proving the theme. For example, in the part of the story where Mrs. Price is investigating who the red sweater belongs too, and Rachel is in question directly by Mrs. Price and she acts in a timid manner as if she was four, when denying that it was hers. Then , when she is forced to put the sweater on and she starts to regress through her ages, and

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.

Sandra Cisneros strong diction in the short Eleven aids to characterized Rachel feeling towards her infamous Eleventh birthday. Along with point view, tone and simile, these numerous rhetorical devices and many more are demonstrated throughout the entire short story. This in turns helps to point out Rachel true feelings. As the course of the short story Rachel exhibits a number of feeling about coming of age.

In Sandra Cisneros’s “Eleven,” the young female protagonist, Rachel, dreads her transition into adolescence, but at the same time, she knows that it is inevitable. When Mrs. Price forces the red sweater on Rachel, “it [sits] there like a big red mountain” and she “shove[s] it” so that it “hangs over the edge [of the desk] like a waterfall” (Cisneros 36). The author uses the “red sweater” as symbolic of this transition as well as to foreshadow menstruation. Rachel sees adolescence as an obstacle that she has to tackle before she can gain her desired wisdom that comes only with age. By pushing the sweater away, she resists the transition because she does not want to have to deal with adolescences

In this coming of age story, the character of Rachel portrays a typical young girl, who, by herself, attempts to understand age and the benefits of growing older. By using a setting of her eleventh birthday, Sandra Cisneros skillfully shows the elements that make one who they are and the difficulties that exist in growing up. Cisneros employs descriptive imagery and literary devices to describe Rachel’s experience.

It was a cold and windy day, a perfect day to uncover secrets and truths about writers I had heard of, but new little about. I entered the library to escape the weather and lose myself in books about Sandra Ciseneros and the characters she creates in her poems and stories. I began my search at a computer resource station, and then absorbed myself in the materials it provided, which were biographies, criticisms, and the works of Cisneros.

In “Eleven,” Rachel, an intellectual eleven-year-old girl, becomes falsely labeled as the owner of a red sweater. Throughout the story, Rachel experiences a rollercoaster

wants to be a free spirt and isolated. As Rachel turns eleven, her attitude towards the end of the

In “ Eleven “ a short story by Sandra Cisneros, the main character Rachel a little girl, deals with peer pressure. Peer Pressure is the influence by a individual that encourages others to change how their behaviors or their attitudes for better or for worse. Rachel faces peer pressure when a little girl Sylvia Saldivar ( a fellow classmate that rachel doesn’t like) says to her teacher believes that the ugly red sweater is Rachels. But rachel being how shy and afraid she is about saying how she truly feels just accepts that the “ ugly red sweater “ is hers.

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