Summary Of Eleven By Sandra Cisneros

The process of life is like growing layers, you aren’t just the age on the outside, you’re all the other ages below the layer shown. This can be seen in the story ‘Eleven’ by Sandra Cisneros. In this story, the main character realizes that by growing up, you don’t lose your other years, you just gain another. She realizes this when she has a horrible day in school and even though it’s her birthday and she is eleven now, she has moments throughout the day where she feels a lot younger, “I’m feeling sick inside, like the part of me that’s three wants to come out of my eyes,(page 2)”. This quote displays that even though we’re older, we still have part of us that’s younger. We all have part of us that’s three and just needs a good cry. We can all remember a time when we had to act as old as we could to be professional and had to bury down that thought of going back to when we were three because you can’t cry right …show more content…
The author better explains the thought of age in layers when they state, “little wooden dolls that fit one inside the other, each year inside the next one.(page 1)” This imagery really develops the idea of age in layers from the author’s point of view. You can just imagine when your birthday comes around, a slightly larger doll comes to encapsulate the previous one. Sometimes you just need to hastily dig through the layers of dolls until you get back to your childhood and can remember what it felt like ‘back then’ when you get one of those nostalgic moments. Looking at life this way is quite beautiful once you really think about it. The fact that, you’re getting older, but you still have all your past ages and past experiences to help you through the next, ever evolving chapter of