Coming Of Age Story Eleven By Sandra Cisneros

“If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius”, Larry Leissner.
Life is full of confusion, confusion is a natural emotion that everyone feels about something in the confusion packed world we exist on. The coming of age period is when people usually experience uncertainty the most throughout their lifetime. Authors sometimes use this intense time in coming of age stories and portray it in many different ways. In the following coming of age stories the authors display the confusion of advancing to the next stages of life through exercising symbolism in their writing. In the story Eleven, by Sandra Cisneros, she uses the symbolism of objects and situations to portray the confusion of growing up. Sandra starts off the story