Eleven

Eleven

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  ELEVEN By Sandra Cisneros
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  Writer: Sandra Cisneros -Sandra Cisneros is an American writer and poet born on December 20th, 1954, in Chicago, Illinois. She is the only daughter of seven brother known by “The house on Mango Street(1984). Moreover, Sandra, during her childhood, became shy and reserved and could never commit to a lasting friendship or a relationship due to his father job, an upholsterer that kept his family moving from city to city.
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  Plot - The storyis about a girl by the name of Rachel, who is turning eleven. However, she doesn`t feel this age, but she does feel like a girl from all different ages below eleven. She explains that she would love to be older so that she could take her own decisions and really feel like an eleven year old girl. During this story, Rachel`s vulnerability sentences her to suffer and feel like a three year old girl. This happened because of her innocence and non capacity to deny the problem she had to confront.
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  Characters: - RACHEL: Childish,mature, not self confident, shy, not popular, innocent, vulnerable, ashamed, bullied, insecure, weird, sensible, overanalyzed things, helpless and sad. - MRS.PRICE: She was Rachel's teacher. - SILVIA SALDIVAR: She was one of Rachel's classmate. She was also a bully who made Rachel wear that ugly sweater, which wasn't from her. - PHYLLIS LOPEZ: She was also one of the girl's classmate. After the class ended and Rachel had suffered using the sweater, Phyllis, remembered it was hers. This is why, we can say she is silly.
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  Tenses - Simple present:“You don't feel Eleven, not right away” - Present continuous: “In my head I'm thinking how long till lunchtime” - Present perfect: “Because she sees I´ve showed the red sweater to the tippy-tip corner of my desk.” - Present perfect continuous: “That's when everything I've been holding in since this morning, finally lets go”
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  Conditionals: Type 1: “...Like if the sweater hurts me and it does, all itchy and full of germs that aren't even mine.” Type 2: “... And even if it belonged to me, I wouldn't say so.” Mixed: “If I was one hundred and two I'd have known what to say when Mrs. Price put the red sweater in my desk.”
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  Wishes: 1- “Today Iwish I was one hundred and two, instead of Eleven”. 2- “This is why I wish I wasn't eleven, because all the years inside me…” 3- “Only today I wish I didn´t have only eleven years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box.”
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  Vocabulary: Skinny: Is somekind of clothes which is narrow and fitting closely to the body. Raggedy and old: Not in good conditions. Itchy: A sensation of the skin causing a desire to scratch.