Eleven By Sandra Cisneros Analysis

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In life, many people encounter instances of where they want to express something, but instead, nothing happens. Whether it be a fear of judgment or rejection, inability to take action is an issue everyone has encountered before. In “Eleven,” by Sandra Cisneros, the point of view of the narrator, Rachel, highlights how important it is to express oneself, and that the best way to bring value to thoughts is through discourse. As Sandra Cisneros develops Rachel as a character, it’s displayed that though Rachel has complex thoughts, an inability to express herself, along with an innate immaturity, allows for others to easily take advantage of her.

Sandra Cisneros continually displays the complex and introspective thoughts of Rachel through her perception of growing older. Rachel’s unique view of age and birthdays is introduced in the first sentence, “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 one.” This describes how Rachel sees age as less of being the age you are, but more of a collection of your previous ages as you grow older. Similar phrases echoing this idea are seen throughout the short story. When introducing her view on getting older she describes how sometimes “ ...you will need to cry like if you’re three, and that’s okay.” In trying to respond to Sylvia’s claim that the ugly sweater is hers, Rachel …show more content…
However, as Rachel recounts her unpleasant experience on her birthday at school, it becomes apparent that she is still an ordinary child, who likes toys, and is afraid of speaking up. Through the short story “Eleven,” the distressing ordeals of Rachel teach the reader that introspection and thought will only be made most valuable through being able to communicate with others, and yet, everything comes with

Sandra Cisneros Eleven Analysis

1.14 CER Eleven In the story Eleven by Sandra Cisneros you can infer that Rachel’s teacher Mrs.Price is not very kind and is very mean to Rachel. One piece of evidence that supports my claim is written by the author in paragraph 10-11 page 69. The author writes “That’s not, I don’t, you’re not…. Not mine,” I finally say in a little voice that was maybe me when i was four. “Of course its yours,” Mrs.Price says. “I remember you wearing it once.” This supports my claim that Mrs.Price is not very…

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Eleven By Sandra Cisneros Analysis

2. The answer is B for various reasons. First of all, in Eleven by Sandra Cisneros, the statement, "That stupid Phyllis Lopez, who is even dumber than Sylvia Saldivar, says she remembers the red sweater is hers! I take it off right away and give it to her, only Mrs. Price pretends like everything's okay," best reflects the universal theme of Eleven because the statement explains that when dealing with authority figures, people need to find courage and stand up for themselves. 4. The answer…

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Eleven By Sandra Cisneros Analysis

In Eleven the author, Sandra Cisneros, uses metaphor and a child's point of view to show that who you are doesn't change just because your age does. In Eleven Sandra Cisneros uses metaphor to describe how people age and how you never completely shed who you were in the past. When Rachel is discussing how she doesn't feel eleven in her eleventh birthday she says: “What they never tell you is when you’re eleven, you’re also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four…

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Analysis Of Eleven By Sandra Cisneros

“Only today I wish I didn’t have only eleven years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box.” In “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros, we can interpret the character Cisneros paints as Rachel, with her paintbrush of literary techniques and other meathods. We are shown Rachel is not comfortable with her age. The primary technique I will point out is the repetition of the fact that she wants to be “one hundred and two.” She says that if she were this age, she would have “known what to say whe…

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Fiction Analysis Paper

Tucker English 1191 3 November 2014 Descriptiveness William Carlos William’s “The Use of Force” and Sandra Cisneros “Eleven” utilize imagery and sensory language to display the emotions of the doctor and Rachel in the respective stories. However, as imagery and sensory language are both used, each author derives different emotions from the two craft elements. This craft analysis will focus on how each author make use of descriptive craft elements in order to demonstrate separate emotions…

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