Eleven By Sandra Cisneros Essay

Many people across the globe have to face peer pressure at sometime throughout their lives, but Rachel from the story Eleven by Sandra Cisneros has to face lots of pressure from her peers throughout the story.Rachel is a shy and insecure girl on her eleventh birthday.Her mean teacher Mrs.Price makes her put on a sweater that’s not even hers, and she cries in front of everybody. That is why I think that the moral of the story is to stand up for yourself when faced with peer pressure.Wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it.Right is right, even if no one is doing it.

One reason why I think that the moral of Eleven is to stand up to peer pressure is because Rachel is pressured by Sylvia Salvador at the beginning of the story.Sylvia is Rachel’s …show more content…
Price throughout the story.First of all,She pressures Rachel into putting on a sweater that wasn’t even hers and makes her burst into tears.She also forces Rachel to believe that the sweater is hers, even though it isn’t.

Lastly, Rachel is pressured to grow up.I think this because Rachel explains that when she gets home, that her parents are going to throw her a big party and make her a big cake.she also says that she is extremely embarrassed that she cries in front of all of her classmates because she has to put on a sweater that isn’t hers, because she is 11, and that would be seen as childish.She has been pressured to grow up for all of her life, by her parents and her peers. Throughout the story, Rachel is pressured and overpowered by her teacher Mrs.Price and her rival Sylvia Salvador,But if Rachel had overcome her peer pressure she wouldn’t have had to put on the sweater, and wouldn’t have cried in front of everybody.That’s why I think that the moral of Eleven by Sandra Cisneros is to stand up to peer pressure.At first I thought the story was going to be all about birthdays, but it was so much

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