Eleven Short Story Analysis

Have you ever feel when is your birthday you feel the same as normal? I already past the experience that I feel the same in my birthday. A theme of the story “Eleven” is speak up for yourself. Also, do not let your age control you. In this story, is about a girl name Rachel that in her birthday she got bullied. She do not feel do not happy about her birthday that she is having elven. One aware that the author give us is that do not let your age control you. “What they don’t understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that when you’re eleven, you’re ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one. And when you wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven but you don’t.” (6) She don’t feel that she is having her birthday, she sound like is not happy of something that happen to her. “Only today I wish I didn’t have only eleven years rattling inside me like pennies in a Band-Aid box.”(7) What she wish is that she don’t want to have eleven for one day because I think for her to have eleven is not so good. She is not happy with her age.
She don’t feel happy on her day, because she kind of have a bad day, been bullied. “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.” (7) When the teacher was finding out who was the ugly sweater and Sylvia start saying that is from Rachel and that she know is not from her. "Now, Rachel, that's enough, because she see I’ve shoved the red sweater to the tippy-tip corner of my desk and it’s hanging all over the edge like a waterfall, but I don’t care.” (8) The teacher didn’t believe still to Rachel because she think that she was wearing it, but is not true. So the teacher force Rachel to wear the sweater. Do not let the age control you and with your tough day to ruin your birthday.
This character, Rachel, had a tough day, that she is kind of depressing but she need to be happy because she will have a birthday party. “Mama is making a cake for me for tonight, and when Papa come home everybody will sing happy birthday, happy birthday to you.” (8) Her parents will celebrate her birthday but she is like not so happy about the rough day she pass. “I’m eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, and one, But I wish I was one hundred and two I wish I was anything but eleven, because I want today to be far away already, far away like a runaway balloon, like a tiny o in the sky, so tiny tiny you have to close your eyes to see it.” (9) Rachel is kind of depress because of her eleven. She do not want to have eleven for one day and is like she is been
control. The author teach us to speak up for yourself and don’t let your age to control you. This story teach us about gender. A girl that is depressing on her birthday, that her age is control her. This story is has almost the same experience that I pass. But I don’t get bullying in my birthday, but I have the emotion how it feel when is your birthday and you feel that you don’t having a birthday. Is like kind of confusing the emotion, like you don’t know what to do.