Compare And Contrast Eleven By Sandra Cisneros And Brownies

“Blowing out someone else’s candle won’t make yours shine bright”(Anon). This quote shows that there absolutely no reason for someone to make someone else sad, because it won’t cause them to feel any happier. Nobody should be treated differently for any reason Eleven by Sandra Cisneros, and Brownies by ZZ Packer both have a narrator who is really shy, nobody cares about what they say, and are mistreated by others. This causes them to hate a lot of things they liked.

In Eleven there were many instances when Rachel and Laurel were portrayed as shy, for example in Eleven, the teacher wrongfully said that the sweater that was owned by Rachel when it was actually owned by Phyllis Lopez, and she replied, "That's not, I don't, you're not …show more content…
For example in Eleven the teacher didn't apologize for wrongly forcing rachel to wear a sweater that didn't belong to her, “I take it off right away and give it to her, only Mrs. Price pretends like everything's okay”(Cisneros,pg.4). this showed that the teacher believed that she didn’t need to apologize to rachel because rachel is younger and since she is older she is right but when she realized she was wrong she didn't admit it. Another example of this is in Brownies Rachel was being treated unfairly by her classmates. They called her by a nickname of something embarrassing that happened to her and never let her talk they drove her so angry that she was just done with it ,and didn't even want to be around any of her classmates anymore until Daphne decided to ask about what laurel was talking about and actually listen. "As I watched the trees blur, I wanted nothing more than to be through with it all :the bus ride, the troop, school—all of it."(Packer,pg27) this quote shows how she has been pushed so far that she decided to give up on school her friends and Troop