Eleven

Eleven         In the story Eleven, Sandra Cisneros hires the literary techniques of perspective and expression to characterize Rachel as a bewildered little young woman who is trying to act anything but her receive age. Because of Cisneros successful use of varied literary techniques, Eleven achieves much more accordingly is present at first glance.

        Rachels point of view as an eleven year old young woman is crucial to discernment the idea that the author is trying to depict. When Rachel is told the sweater is hers, she blames the entire possibility on her age, instead of the real problem, her immaturity. There would be no problem whatsoever in speaking up and make clear the sweater didnt belong to her. However, she gets angry and frustrated, telling herself that if she were lone(prenominal) a little older, the problem would not even be a moot topic. Instead of giving the sweater tail to Mrs. Price, she shamefully puts it on and blames the entire incident on her age, use that as an excuse. Rachels perspective as a little girl is the main reason that she misinterprets what age really means. Rachel thinks that it is only welcome to do some things at a authorized age. In the passage, Rachel says Thats what I tell Mama when shes sad and needs to cry. peradventure shes feeling three.



 (Cisneros, 17) Again, her perspective comes into play. Although in some matters age is a factor in how people are supposed to act, Rachel goes overly far by saying that at a certain age she must act a certain way.

         other literary technique Cisneros uses to her stories advantage is diction. Rachel talks in her own language applicable to her own world, the world of a full eyed child seeing everything for the very first time. Because Cisneros makes...

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