Analysis Of Eleven By Sandra Cisneros

The older people become the wiser they are. “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros describes the life of an eleven year old girl who has come to realize that no matter what age people are; people still are their childish selves at times. At eleven years old Rachel realized all this.The reason the overall message of “Eleven” is that we still contain the same emotions as we do as children we just age over time is because it 's been portrayed as adulthood is different from childhood but who you are as a person does not change.
Rachel sadly on her eleventh birthday had to go to school. She didn’t feel like she was eleven that day and she rather wished she was one hundred and two. “Today I wish I was one hundred and two I’d have known what to say when Mrs. …show more content…
Rachel did not quite have the birthday she had wanted to but at least she had come to realize that when the girl who actually owned that ugly sweater admitted it was hers all along, the teacher 's response told just how age was different from our emotions. “I take it off right away and give it to her, only Mrs. Price pretends like everything’s okay”(Cisneros 3). Mrs. Price is obviously older than Rachel. However, the difference is that with the incident with the sweater was not that big of a deal to Mrs. Price at all but it was to Rachel because she was the one who had to be called out in front of the whole class not once but twice. Once for the fact that it was somehow apparently hers when it was not and the other fact that she was then told to put it on. The difference here is that the situation really was not all that important to Mrs. Price but it was to Rachel. The maturity level was shown through this scene between a teacher and a student. A teacher got over the whole situation and let it go that she was wrong and Rachel seemed to have taken it a bit to heart that she was shocked that Mrs. Price did not care about the sweater any longer or for the fact that she was