1)What they don 't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that 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. And when you wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven, but you don 't. You open your eyes and everything 's just like yesterday, only it 's today. And you don 't feel eleven at all. You feel like you 're still ten. And you are --underneath the year that makes you eleven. 2) Like some days you might say something stupid, and that 's the part of you that 's still ten. Or maybe some days you might need to sit on your mama 's lap because you 're scared, and that 's the part of you that 's five. And maybe one day when you 're all grown up maybe you will need to cry like if you 're three, and that 's okay. That 's what I tell Mama when she 's sad and needs to cry. Maybe she 's feeling three. 3) Because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion or like the rings inside a tree trunk or like my little wooden dolls that fit one inside the other, each year inside the next one. That 's how being eleven years old is. 4) You don 't feel eleven. Not right away. It takes a few days, weeks even, sometimes even months before you say Eleven when they ask you. And you don 't feel smart eleven, not until you 're almost twelve. That 's the way it is. 5) Only today I wish I didn 't have only eleven years rattling inside me like
Everybody wants to feel important on their birthday; whether it be their seventh birthday or their seventeenth birthday, growing a year older is still important. Sandra Cisnero’s “Eleven” depicts the day of a young girl’s eleventh birthday. Through the use of imagery, narration, and similes, Sandra Cisneros characterizes Rachel to explain her day as turning eleven wasn’t as good as everyone would hope it to be. Sandra Cisnero characterizes Rachel as a girl who over analyzes every action and who has high expectations for herself and others. Rachel focuses heavily on the little things, whether it is that Sylvia Saldivar giving her a hard time or over who owns the ugly red sweater.
Eleven is a story that talks about a little girl named Rachel who turns eleven, but feels as if she is anything but. She says it takes her months before she can remember that she is in fact, eleven. The author also says that we will never just be one age we will be three sometimes and cry and cry until our hearts ache no more. Or sometimes you need someone to hold you and tell you everything is okay, this part of you is five. In the short story ‘Eleven’ the author uses many literary devices like figurative language, imagery, and repetition.
The confrontation with the teacher and how the author put it in her writing is very beneficial to helping us understand who Rachel is, a person who thinks age is just a number. “Im eleven today. I’m eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, and one, but I wish I was one hundred and two.” Rachel believes that age has no bearing on how one should be treated( someone appraises someone) and when one does turn a different age it has no effect on that individual and that is is just another day. (X)“You don't feel eleven, not away. It takes a few days, weeks even, sometimes months before you say eleven when they ask.”
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.
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.
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Eleven is a very confusing age according o Rachel. She believes that when you are eleven you don't feel like it and on certain days act like a different age leading up to elven. In the short story Cisneros uses symbolism to show how soft spoken and shy Rachel is. There was a red hat in Rachel's classroom that her teacher believed was her's, because of her classmate Sylvia. Rachel was humiliated and felt very embarrassed,
Growing up is a process that every kid have to go through. Most kids who grow up notice the changes, and it can either improve or disrupt the person they are. Some kids don’t notice a change at all, and they still feel like the same person from the previous age. In “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, the author use similes, diction, and imagery to express the emotions and the struggle that Rachel is going through as she turns eleven.
But I can lie on my bed and remember every digit” (Line 8-12). As adults, remembering the ages prior to ten years old is not very easy, and the feeling we felt when we were going from the single digit age, to the double digit age. That’s all you want as a child is to be able to be a year older, and when you finally get older all you want as an adult is to be a year younger. “But I can lie on my bed and remember every digit. At four I was an Arabian wizard, I could make myself invisible by drinking a glass of milk a certain way. At seven I was a soldier, at nine a prince” (Line 12-16). Collins use of metaphor illuminates the broad imagination of a child, and the infinite possibilities of what they can
In “Eleven” the author, Sandra Cisneros, uses literary techniques to characterize Rachel. Rachel is a young girl who wants to feel “102”. Her birthday and she is explaining how she has turned Eleven but doesn’t feel any different from her past ages. Cisneros use of literary techniques allows you to understand exactly where Rachel is coming from and see things from her perspective.
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Sandra Cisneros story Eleven is an influential piece about the struggle of Rachael on her eleventh birthday. Rachael is a young girl who is harassed with understanding how to feel about her birthday, a day which is delightful for most but not for her. She fights through her age and maturity to be understood, but fails. Told from an insightful first person Eleven contains simplistic diction and a good use of similes to characterize Rachael as a neglected and sad girl with an advanced outlook on birthdays
Now that Karley is 11, she probably realizes that double digits bring changes in her life, her feelings and even
“Eleven” portrays how no matter what age we are, we carry all of our previous years with us; our thoughts, feelings, experiences, and more. Everything that has happened to us in the past does not just go away, these memories stay with us. In the short story, Cisneros states, “When you wake up on your eleventh birthday, you expect to feel eleven, but you don’t.” Referring back to the writing prompt, this sentence expresses the theme of “Eleven” by explaining to the audience that if not for a calendar, we would not associate a number with our growth. We would simply go through life, maturing based on our previous experiences and our expanding knowledge of the world around us. The calendar ties us to a date, an age, although we may not believe