Eleven year olds don't often have correct grammar at all times. In the story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros the author creates a character named Rachel, Rachel has just turned eleven. During the story Rachel is accused of owning an ugly red sweater. Throughout the story Cisneros creates the voice of Rachel making her sound like an eleven-year-old child. Cisneros creates the voice of Rachel by the repetition of the word “and”.
Throughout the story “Eleven” Sandra Cisneros creates the voice of the main character Rachel by the repetition of the word “and”. For example in the text it states, “And when you wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven,...”, in the text it also states, “And you don't feel eleven at all.”.The text also
Imagine it’s your 11th birthday, an exciting event that should be fun and happy, but it turns out to be depressing and disgraceful. Well, that is what happened to the main character, Rachel from Eleven. Rachel is forced to wear an ugly red sweater that isn't hers which makes her cry. She repeatedly wishes she were wiser than eleven because she doesn't know how to respond to her situation properly. Similes and repetition contribute to the depressing mood of Eleven by Sandra Cisneros.
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 the fire within Rachel. She is a defiant and pouty little girl who out of stubbornness has to defy the sweater in her mind. “It’s maybe a thousand years old”, she says to herself in act to degrade the filthy red sweater even more. The sweater to Rachel has become an eternal battle of ages. She is torn on whether or not to stand up and act bigger th...
Mericans was a short and straightforward story. The main character was a young female, Micaela, who was also the narrator, started off with very detail descriptions of the setting. Such stories always give its reader an idea of the author’s reason behind the story. Mericans is simply about a young girl who is in a conflict between two different cultural groups, America and Mexico. While, Eleven, is also short to the point conflicting story, however, the main character is conflicting between her. Eleven is about a little girl, Rachel, the narrator, who just turned eleven years old and wishes she were one hundred and two years of age instead. As she feels that turning eleven has no specific relevance. Comparing these two characters, they depict what most children feel towards adults, which is a certain type of frustration. Throughout the stories, its gives the readers some knowledge and detailed description of what the characters undergo.
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People act much older or younger than they actually are, have you ever acted that way. In the brief story Eleven by Sandra Cisneros, the main character Rachel turns 11 while at school. At school her teacher, Mrs.Price holds out a red sweater accordingly asked who does it belong to. Everyone says not mine but one of the students aforementioned it was hers. So she is forced to wear it and cries in class,but a student says it was hers. From the school events Rachel nevertheless as reactions less mature or more mature. There were a few instances during her school day when Rachel reacted to events identical to an immature child.
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Children have the tendency to be shy and introverted, but the character Rachel from the short story “Eleven” reaches a whole new peak. Sandra Cisneros writes Rachel in such a way that even if the readers did not understand the main idea of the short story, they would understand that Rachel is a measley, little girl who has trouble standing up for herself due to her young age.
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The phrases she chose are also significant because they allow us to see that her shift in language represents, and coincides, with her shift in emotion and tone. Ph...