Sandra Cisneros 'Short Story Eleven'
Objective Summary
The short story Eleven by Sandra Cisneros, illustrates the challenges of growing up and becoming a new age. The main character Rachel turns eleven but still feels the parts of her that are 10, 5, and 3. When her teacher gives her an old, uncomfortable, smelly, germ infested jacket that she assumes to be hers, Rachel is unable to protest and say that she doesn't own it. The teacher forces her to wear it, she cries and lets out her 3 year old self. In the end she does not feel older at all and was unable to keep in the aspects of her younger years while enduring the challenges of becoming older.
The short story Eleven by Sandra Cisneros, illustrates the challenges of growing up and becoming a new age. The main character Rachel turns eleven but still feels the parts of her that are 10, 5, and 3. When her teacher gives her an old, uncomfortable, smelly, germ infested jacket that she assumes to be hers, Rachel is unable to protest and say that she doesn't own it. The teacher forces her to wear it, she cries and lets out her 3 year old self. In the end she does not feel older at all and was unable to keep in the aspects of her younger years while enduring the challenges of becoming older.