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Analysis Of Sandra Cisneros The St Ory, Eleven
Birthdays are meant to be special for everyone throughout their lifetime. They are celebrated with happiness in which people get a chance to honor themselves around people they love and look forward to another great year. Sandra Cisneros, the author of the st ory, Eleven, portrays herself as Rachel, an eleven year old girl who wishes to be one hundred and two years old. Rachel dislikes the red sweater described numerous times within the story. The red sweater creates major conflict between Mrs. Price and
Rachel. Cisneros characterizes Rachel’s feelings about her eleventh birthday using rhetorical devices such as a simile, tone, and stream-of-consciousness.
Rachel mentions a simile in paragraph five of how she wants to grow older. In
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