Eleven

The narrator of "Eleven" noises very much like an adolescent girl. Many young women at that age would have problem amending somebody about an error in front of the class. The difficulty may not be that she is too timid to manage it, or does not desire to contradict the teacher. The difficulty may easily be that the mortification of the know-how is too much for her to muster her ideas and voice. In premier up to this part of the article, she states, "Only today I desire I did not have eleven years rattling interior me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box. Today I desire I was one century and two rather than of eleven because if I was one century and two I'd have renowned what to state when Mrs. Price put the red jumper on my desk." The simile of her year's interior she like pennies in a Band-Aid carton appears very childlike. Only a progeny would believe of a certain thing like that; she no question utilized to agitate penny-filled cartons round for fun. The detail that she adds up the age "one century and two" is furthermore striking. Children not ever manage anything by half. She could not just state "one hundred" because that would not sound vintage sufficient to her. The supplement of two additional years makes is appropriately shrewd and mature for her to long for. (Cisneros, 1991)

In "Eleven", the narrator, regardless of her age, expresses concepts that show her wisdom. The very notion of at the identical time being all the ages you have come to is intriguing and not solely childish. She states, "When you are eleven, you are furthermore 10, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one." This ...