Eleven By Sandra Cisneros Summary

In the story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros is a story told as from the eyes of an eleven year old girl. The narrator at times, gives the reader the feeling you are really reading a story written by an eleven girl and not a grown woman. One can tell this by the author’s word choices throughout the story. Like the narrator repeatedly uses the word “stupid”, which to me is a word an eleven year old would really use. As she describes multiple things as “stupid”, such as describing her classmate Sylvia Saldivar. There are also times though that narrator appears wise beyond her years. She knows that even though she is eleven, she does not have that much life experience yet. As she says “I wish I was one hundred and two instead of eleven because if