Growing Up In Eleven By Sandra Cisneros

Most people think that growing up is fun. However, in the story, Eleven by Sandra Cisneros, we see that there are downsides to growing up. You get more responsibility’s piled on you. School gets harder, and friendships get tricky. Teachers expect more from you, and you can’t just walk away from your problems. Birthdays can be a letdown because you don’t feel older, growing up is confusing, and because it’s just another day.
Birthdays can be a letdown because you don’t feel older. In the beginning of the story, the main character, Rachel, woke up on her 11th birthday and noticed she didn’t feel eleven at all! She still felt ten. Most people have probably experienced this feeling, nothing feels any different, it’s just like yesterday, but in reality, it’s today. In paragraph two, the text explained how even though you’re eleven, you’re still all the ages in the past. The author really wanted to show this is important to the reader, so every time this comes up she says 10, and 9,

In the begging of the story, the text is explaining Rachel´s theory how when you 're 11, you 're also all the ages behind you. An example of this is when the text says ¨Everything is just like yesterday, only it ´s today.¨ This shows even from the main character herself, that everyday is the same, no matter how old you are. Rachel gives a very creative example of this, using the trunk of a tree. When you get old, it is just like a trunk of a tree. We all know that trees have rings inside them, and that is just like life, just like how Rachel explained to us. Later in the story, Rachel is crying because she knows the sweater that Mrs.Price put on Rachel 's desk was definitely NOT hers. All of her feelings get mixed up, and she gets overwhelmed. Rachel has to let everything out, and she doesn 't feel, act, or look like she is eleven. In the end, you can clearly see that birthdays can be a let down because they are just another