Wednesday, September 21, 2011
"Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros Response DUE FRIDAY 9/23
Yesterday we read Sandra Cisneros' short story titled "Eleven." In a comment to this post, please choose the word or phrase that you think is the most important to the story as a whole. Include your choice, and then explain why you believe the word is significant. What does it reveal about the story or character as a whole?
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"because she's older and the teacher, she's right and I'm not." this is an important quote to this story because it shows how she feels belittled threw the story and her she shows how she feels since she isn't old, she has no power. Threwout the story she is struggling with this feeling of helplessness because she feels she has now power. Making her have none.
ReplyDelete"What they don't understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you're eleven, you're also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one."
ReplyDeleteI think this part is important because, Cisneros relates to the different ages all through out the story. She goes back and refers to the numbers when she does different actions caused by her emotions. This passage is like the guidelines for her short story.
"Because the way your grow old is kind of like an onion or like rings inside a tree trunk.."
ReplyDeleteAs you get older you gain more layers of wisdom, you learn more about yourself. The age just builds up and even though, on your birthday you might not feel that age, your still a year older. The character explains that not everyone understands birthdays, everyone is still one, two, three, four, and five years old. The years pile on like layers of onions or rings in a tree trunk.
"I wish I was invisible but I’m not. I'm eleven and it's my birthday today and I’m crying like I'm three in front of everybody."
ReplyDeleteI think this is an incredibly important line to the story because it shows the main character, Rachel’s, emotion at the moment. The whole short story is about emotions and ages. Also the last part about how crying makes her seem like a three year old is a big part from the story because the whole time Rachel compares emotions to ages.
"You open your eyes and everything's just like yesterday, only it's today. And you don't feel eleven at all."
ReplyDeleteI believe this is an important quote to the story because Sandra is saying that her age doesn't affect her. She still feel like she's "still ten" and the fact that she is a certain age is just a number to her. It's as if she's disappointed that despite turning eleven she doesn't feel any older.
"even if it belonged to me I wouldn't say so. Maybe because I'm skinny, maybe because she doesn't like me, that stupid Sylvia Saldivar says, "I think it belongs to Rachel." An ugly sweater like that, all raggedy and old, but Mrs. Price believes her."
ReplyDeleteThis is an important part of the story because this is when Cisneros starts to describe the embarrassment Rachel experiences. This also describes the ugliness of this sweater since she wouldn't admit it belonged to her even if it was.
"because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion or like the rings inside a tree trunk or like my wooden dolls that fit one inside the other, each year inside the next one." I chose this quote from th story beacaue the write uses a lot of similes and becausE what she says is true. Growing up u get bigger and bigger and sometimes you don't like it but it is a Part of life.
ReplyDelete"because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion or like the rings inside a tree trunk or like my wooden dolls that fit one inside the other, each year inside the next one." I chose this quote because i fell the same way because i do all the time act like a five year old or a two year old saying why,. Or no. Or mine so I can relate to this quote.
ReplyDeletei choose the quote "and when you wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven, but you dont." i think that contributes to the story as a whole because the reading is about the fact that when you turn a new age you are still the same age you were all the years before so when this girl turns eleven she still acts the age of 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1
ReplyDelete"Like some days you might say something stupid"
ReplyDeleteI choose this quote because it shows how people can act younger than they actually are.
"Like some days you might say something stupid, and that's the part of you that's still ten. Or maybe some days you might need to sit on your mama's lap because you're scared, and that's the part of you that's five."
ReplyDeleteThis quote is important to the story because it shows how the main character thinks. She isn't just eleven, she is also ten, nine, eight, seven, etc. She believes that you act the way you are because of the other ages you once were.
"What they don't understand about birthday"
ReplyDeleteThis is kind of saying, people are dumb and bassically adjusting that to herself to display that, a birthday is a serious purpose or maybe being head birthday person, she has to be the target the main purpose of the day. She thinks people who don't follow this role, don't understand birthdays. Maybe people should understand is maybe what she trying to spit out.
"because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion or like the rings inside a tree trunk or like my wooden dolls that fit one inside the other, each year inside the next one." I used this quote because i feel like each year you get older it stays inside of you and you act younger then you are supposed to sometimes.
ReplyDelete"maybe oneday when your grown up maybe you will need to cry like if you were three". I choose this quote because it show that you will always do something that you would do now but you would do when you were younger.
ReplyDelete"Like some days you might say something stupid, and that's the part of you that's still ten"
ReplyDeleteI think ths is the most important phrase or saying in this story because everyone can agree that's they've said something stupid and could relate to this.
"What they dont understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when your 11 your also 10, 9, 8..." I think this is most important to the story because when she was at school she said how she got embarrassed and wanted to cry when she kept telling the teacher the sweater wasn't hers. As she would say, she feels that way because those are her younger years showing.
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