“Eleven” is a short story by Sandra Cisneros about a young girl named Rachel. On her eleventh birthday, Her teacher, Mrs. Price, holds up a horrible red sweater and demands to know who owns it. Sylvia Saldivar said the sweater is Rachel’s, and Mrs. Price just drops it on Rachel’s desk. Rachel wants to throw the sweater away. Rachel thinks today is terrible birthday. Sandra Cisneros used specific writing techniques that help to describe Rachel’s issue about a receiving a misunderstanding through the eye of a child. By describing Rachel’s young voice and her thought, Sandra Cisneros shows Rachel’s feelings such as sorrow, and hate. For example, ““That’s not, I don’t, you’re not…Not mine,” I finally say in a little voice that was maybe me when
