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Commentary On The Short Story - School Essays

Commentary On The Short Story

The irony of life is that as you grow older you want to experience your youth again, while at the time you are young all you want is to be older. In "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros, Rachel is only eleven years old, yet she would rather be one hundred and two. She feels that the old age will give her the respect and wisdom to be able to stand up for herself. Through the use of point of view and diction, Cisneros develops Rachel’s character and shows that despite her youth, Rachel is capable of feeling and expressing ideas and emotions universal to all ages.
Rachel is a round character who has learned a lot about growing up from the experience she has had on her eleventh birthday. She ...

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The embarrassment Rachel feels is made apparent through the use of point of view, when her teacher makes her take the lost sweater in front of the whole class. Even if the ugly sweater with red plastic buttons and a stretched out collar and sleeves were hers, she would not admit it since “it was maybe a thousand years old,” Rachel informs the reader. The teacher puts the sweater on Rachel’s desk, insisting that it belongs to Rachel; despite Rachel’s objections, the teacher makes her put the sweater on. Rachel tells the reader then that she wishes she were one hundred and two. If she were that age rather than eleven, then she would have known exactly what to say and would not have ended up crying in front of the class. If she were older, Mrs. Price would listen to her denials and not ignore her. She would have the courage to say “not mine, not mine” boldly out loud instead of just getting sick inside. With any other point of view, the effect ...

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Added: 8/9/2004 12:22:36 AM
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