In the story “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros is a story told as from the eyes of an eleven year old girl. The narrator at times‚ gives the reader the feeling you are really reading a story written by an eleven girl and not a grown woman. One can tell this by the author’s word choices throughout the story. Like the narrator repeatedly uses the word “stupid”‚ which to me is a word an eleven year old would really use. As she describes multiple things as “stupid”‚ such as describing her classmate Sylvia
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“Spotlight” are quite similar in style‚ but not in voice. They may have the same revolving theme of mean teachers and breakdowns‚ but the tones they take and even the sentence structure they have is completely different. “Eleven” is a story by Sandra Cisneros‚ which is about a girl named Rachel and an ugly red sweater. While in class‚ Rachel’s teacher is asking the class whose red sweater it is. Rachel is seemingly the only one in class that doesn’t say that it’s hers‚ which makes one of her classmates
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In both of the text about Okita’s poem and "Mericans" by Sandra Cisneros basically both talks about American Identity because if you go back in the poem and read Okitas poem it speaks on American identity more than anything else and how she had experience culture differently from others because where she came from it seem to be a generation thing in the family and how it was is where ever your family was from that was where you was from. Okita’s poem also has a little bit to do with culture heritage
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Have you ever struggled on standing up for yourself? Sometimes people don’t have the courage to stand up for themselves when challenged with problems. In the story “ Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros‚ the main character‚ Rachel‚ is faced with many challenges that she doesn’t face at school and challenges that she doesn’t face with her fellow classmates. For example‚ Rachel loses herself when challenged by her teacher‚ Mrs. Price. So there was an ugly old sweater that had been sitting in the locker room
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Have you ever been so scared or nervous that you just stop and cry? In the story ¨Eleven¨ by Sandra Cisneros a scared‚ shy 11 year old girl gets stood up by her mean old teacher in front of all of her classmates. Did I mention it was her birthday? Yes she got stood up by Mrs.Price on her birthday. But Rachel never seemed to want to put herself out in the open. She was always either too scared to talk or she got cut off but whatever the cause may be always be willing to put yourself out in the open
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Daughter”‚ the author Sandra Cisneros expresses her struggles as being the only daughter in a Mexican family of six sons and how these facts have affected her life and made her the person she is today. Sandra Cisneros mentions “I am the only daughter in a family of six sons. That explains everything.” Being the only girl in a large family has‚ in a way‚ forced Sandra to spend time alone with herself because Sandra’s brothers would not spend time with Sandra. This allowed Sandra to spend more time thinking
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people who we look up to is a basin human instinct. The narrative‚ "Only Daughter" by Sandra Cisneros‚ shows us readers how no encouragement and acceptance can determine how a persons life may turn out. Cisneros’s challenges affect her life in so many ways‚ but it shapes her to the wonderful writer she is today. The narrative‚ "Only Daughter" by Sandra Cisneros‚ is about being the only daughter out of six boys. Cisneros informs us how she felt left out because her father would tell others he was the
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Crawford English February 03‚ 2014 Compare and Contrast Sandra Cisneros’s essay‚ “Only Daughter” is an autobiography about being raised in a family of six brothers‚ and how she is desperate for her dad to accept her for whom she is‚ and what she has become‚ a writer. “When he was finally finished after what seemed like hours‚ my father looked up and asked: where can we get more copies of this for the relatives?”(114). In this quote‚ Cisneros’ dad really shows how proud he feels towards his daughter
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Title: Only Daughter Author: Sandra Cisneros Bio: Sandra was born in Chicago‚ Illinois in December 20‚ 1954. She was the only daughter in a poor Mexican family of 6 brothers. Being the only girl caused her to isolate herself and look to reading and writing as a form communication for herself. Her first novel was “The House on Mango Street” which deals with growing up in Chicago as a Latino. She received several award including the “Before Columbus American Book Award” and two “National Endowment
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In the section “Red Clowns” from the book The House on Mango Street‚ Sandra Cisneros illustrates how being chosen is not as innocent as society makes it seem when the character Esperanza gets raped. While Esperanza and her friend Sally are at a carnival‚ Sally is chosen by a big boy and leaves with him (99). Sally is chosen because she was pretty and her being chosen was a positive event for her as she left voluntarily. She gets to be the fairy tale princess and gets a happy ending for the night
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