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Eleven By Sandra Cineros Analysis

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The story "Eleven" by Sandra Cineros is written in the first person point if view. It‘s very important that Sandra Cineros wrote this story in the first point of view, because if she wrote the story in a different point of view you won‘t really feel what she‘s she‘s felling and you won‘t hear what really going on in her brain and how she felt about this situation. Her thought‘s were actually helping express the theme of this story and if we can‘t hear her though‘s then the theme of the story wouldn‘t be as clear. The theme of this story is demonstrated when the main character says "because the way you grow old is kind of like an onion... each year inside the next one. That‘s how being eleven years old is". Cisneros is trying to say that if

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