Eleven

Eleven         In the story Eleven, Sandra Cisneros usances the literary techniques of perspective and phrase to characterize Rachel as a bewildered little young lady who is trying to act anything but her have ripen. Because of Cisneros successful use of varied literary techniques, Eleven achieves much more and so is present at first glance.

        Rachels point of military position as an eleven year old girl is pivotal to understanding the idea that the author is trying to depict. When Rachel is told the sweater is hers, she blames the whole misfortune on her age, instead of the real problem, her immaturity. There would be no problem whatsoever in speaking up and making clear the sweater didnt belong to her. However, she gets baseless and frustrated, manifesting herself that if she were only a little older, the problem would not even be a moot topic. Instead of giving the sweater back to Mrs. Price, she shamefully puts it on and blames the entire incident on her age, using that as an excuse. Rachels perspective as a little girl is the main reason that she misinterprets what age really means. Rachel thinks that it is only acceptable to do some things at a certain age. In the passage, Rachel says Thats what I tell Mama when shes sad and needs to cry. Maybe shes feeling three.



(Cisneros, 17) Again, her perspective comes into play. Although in some matters age is a factor in how people are supposed to act, Rachel goes too far by saying that at a certain age she must act a certain way.

        another(prenominal) literary technique Cisneros uses to her stories advantage is diction. Rachel talks in her own language applicable to her own world, the world of a spacious eyed child seeing everything for the very first time. Because Cisneros makes...

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