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For me, the story Eleven definitely brought back the fears that I too experienced as a child. Sandra Cisneros does a fantastic job of portraying the unfairness and injustice we all had to experience throughout our childhood. It is certainly not Rachel's sweater but nobody, not ever her own teacher will believe her. Her image is in jeopardy here, I mean she's eleven years old and image is everything to an eleven year old girl. Every paragraph in the story illustrates exactly how a young adolescent girl like Rachel views the unfairness of life at her age.

I think one of things that made this story so great was the way she establish certain parts of the story. For instance, she first introduces the main event in the story in the end of the fifth paragraph by saying, "Today I wish I was one hundred and two...because if I was one hundred and two I'd have known what to say when Mrs. Price put the red sweater on my desk." From here you know what this story is basically going to be about but the way she presents this really draws the reader in and makes them want to read forward and see what this is all about.

The next thing that Cisneros did that I found interesting was her brilliant portrayal of exactly how a real eleven year old would have handled the situation in the given circumstances. As I read that part of the story I could not help but notice similarities between how Rachel handled the situation, and how I would have handled embarrassing situations when I was her age. In the part about her squeezing her eyes closed and putting her head down, Rachel thinks about how everything will be alright when she gets home because it's her birthday and there's a cake waiting for her back home. Who didn't do that when they were upset as a kid? Cisneros finds something that just about everybody did while they were a kid, and incorporates it into her story. This made her writing style very effective since I was able to relate to and even remember some of the times I had