Summary Of Eleven By Sandra Cisneros

In the Mosaics Reader, I enjoyed “Eleven” written by Sandra Cisneros the most. On the 11th birthday, Rachel was humiliated in front of her classmates by an insensitive teacher. It recalls a similar experience that I had when I was in the primary school. In her essay, I can see myself in it. I am quite sympathetic to her feeling about growing up as she wrote “And when you wake up on your eleventh birthday, you expect to feel eleven, but you don’t…everything’s just like yesterday.” That is the feeling I have every year, especially this year when I became eighteen-year-old, an adult. On my 18th birthday, my appearance might grow older, but in inside I am still a little child. In this essay, she uses several interesting similes. My favorite simile