Eleven Essay, Research Paper

The author Sandra Cisneros, captures the innocence and insecurity of a

teennageer named Rachel, that experiences a mixed of emotions during scholl when

she calls girls in her class ‘’stupid.” The diction as we can see is very

normal for the audience to understand, because the main character is only eleven

years old. The content of the essay is composed of simple language that

charaterized Rachel, as a normal teenager that is going through transitions by

growing up. One of the major reasons for easy interpretation and connection is

done by the effective use of syntax, and tone. The reader can comprehend the

estate of mind and the athsmosphere that Rachael was involved, because Cisneros

captures the personality that Rachel had every time she became older. For

example, we see Rachels insecurity when she repeateded her thoughts through out

the passage. The introduccion to the story is composed of numbers. The

significance of them has a powerful meaning to Rachel. They express the fellings

of yesterday, but the only diffeence to her is that today she is eleven and

yesterday she was ten. Rachel brings out her innocence when she says” Like some

days you might say nothing stupid, and that’s the part of you that ’s still

ten”. By doing this the author uses simple language to connect with the

audience by the use of simmilies. For example, when Rachel created a connection

between the ring inside a tree and the way people grow. The interpretation to

this could be that humans like to relate to the past in order to a be better

person in the future and to understand how life works. Another important fact,

is when Rachel said, ” Mamma is making a cake for me for tonight, and when Papa

comes home everybody will sing Happy birthday, happy bithday to you.” Here we

see that family was a big part in her life, she uses happy memories with her

family to get away from the horror and abused that she experienced at school.

The tone of the passage is of a typical eleven grader, it is express in

thoughtful ways, how Rachel understood things in order to make sense of her

feelings and thoughts.