Eleven By Sandra Cisneros Analysis

Eleven. That's how old Rachel is. She is also ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, and one. In Eleven by Sandra Cisneros, the teacher finds a red sweater and asks whose it is. There was a pause of silence until Sylvia Saldivar said it was Rachel’s, and she tried to deny it but the teacher believed what Sylvia said. I think Rachel needs to learn how to stand up for herself. I think Rachel gets overly emotional and sensitive. Secondly I think she is lonely. And last I think she is very negative about some things.

The first reason why I think Rachel needs to learn to stand up for her is she gets overly emotional about things. For example she started crying when she had to put the sweater on, which I think she shouldn’t of been a baby about it and
I think this because when the teacher tells Rachel to put the sweater on, but Rachel tries to say it wasn’t her’s, nobody stood up for her. This shows that maybe she doesn’t make friends easily. Additionally in the story when Rachel is thinking to herself she only mentions her mom and her dad not any friends, which leads me to think maybe she doesn’t talk or have any friends. I think Rachel is lonely and needs to learn how to stand up for herself.

Finally a way to show that Rachel needs to learn how to stand up for herself is that she can be a bit negative. For example Rachel puts the sweater up in the corner of her desk instead of being mature and dealing with it. Also in the story she is mean to her classmates for example she says,¨Phyllis Lopez is even dumber than Sylvia¨. This definitely shows that Rachel needs to learn to stand up for herself and that she is being negative.

As you can see in the story ¨Eleven¨,is that you need to learn to stand up for yourself and if you don’t, bullying and everything else is not going to go away. So next you see someone getting picked on or even you will you stand