Sweater

“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…

to your local thrift store. Look for mostly wool sweaters. It doesn’t have to be 100% wool, but it need to be majority wool or natural animal fiber. Look for fibers like angora, cashmere or merino.…

“Saving Penguins, One Sweater At A Time” (Kristin Lewis). Did you know that little penguins are a species of penguin, so named because they can range anywhere from 10 to 12 inches tall (Kristin Lewis). When oil gets on penguins their feathers clump up, when this happens it exposes their skin and allows all the cold water and poisonous oil to get to their skin and make them cold (Lauren Tarshis 16). The penguins from “ The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and “ Saving Penguins, One Sweater At A Time”…

you're teacher is mean. Rachel struggles to see thing aren't always the way they seem to be because it was her birthday. Like when Sylvia said that ugly sweater belongs to Rachal’s. Also when mrs.Price belived her that the stretch out could be a jump rope sweater was Rachles. She wanted to be invisible, so she didn’t have to deal with the sweater. Some more evidence is she was feeling sick like part of her that is three wants to come out. As well as when Mrs.Price…

story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros is about Rachel’s eleventh birthday and reveals that children are hesitant to stand up to adult authority figures. Mrs. Price confronts Rachel with an ugly red sweater that she believes belongs to her. When Rachel is unable to stick up for herself, she is forced to wear the sweater that eventually ruins her birthday. Rachel feels powerless over her own situation. For Rachel, age is based on the experiences one gains over the years versus the actual age. Rachel…

tells the story of Aboriginal women, who make Cowichan sweaters from hand rolled wool and who remain generally invisible to the world. Filmed in the southern Vancouver Island, it shows their cultural and their bravery from their past to the present. It demonstrates how those Aboriginal women are resourceful to keep their families alive and to keep their heritage. This movie shows several families of generation whom made those Cowichan sweaters. With their traditional technique and process, we…

named Rachel. Today is Rachel's eleventh birthday. In class, Rachel if forced to claim an ugly red sweater that isn't hers. Sandra Cisneros uses language, images, and organization to characterize Rachel. Throughout the story, she uses language to show how stressed the red sweater makes Rachel. She writes that Rachel bites "down on" her "teeth real hard". Rachel is not only stressed about the red sweater but she is also stressed about turning eleven. She feels pressure to act more like an eleven…

schooling in her short story “Eleven”. In this story Rachel, the protagonist, is mortified when her teacher, Mrs. Price, forces her to put on a gross, smelly sweater that does not belong to her. Seemingly innocent, the sweater actually represents Rachel's fear of not fitting in. Mrs. Price uses her position of authority to rid her classroom of the sweater, at the expense of Rachel's embarrassment. Without even the teacher on her side and her confidence shattered,…

forces Salvador to be faced with tough situations that strengthen his character. In “Eleven,” the narrator moves “the red sweater to the corner of [her] desk with [her] ruler”(Cisneros). This imagery is used in order to show that the sweater is having a super negative impact of the narrator’s life. The ruler shows that the narrator does not even want to touch it, and the sweater is moved to the corner of the desk because the narrator wants to be as far away from it as possible. This experience…

Ray Bradbury’s “The Sound of Summer Running” and Sandra Cisneros’s “Eleven” both have a charter that puts on something for the first time and include many descriptive emotions. In both stories, the main character puts on the clothing items to and are both overwhelmed with feelings, some good, some bad. In “The Sound of Summer Running” the clothing item is a pair of sneakers that symbolizes freedom and a new beginning to the Douglas, the main character. “The tennis shoes silently hushed…