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Humiliation is a part of being eleven. In the short story eleven by Sandra Cisneros, she shows us Rachels attitude toward age and characterizes her through the use of several different literary devices. Eleven is about a girl who has her eleventh birthday, and finds herself in a very uncomfortable situation, in which she reacts differently. One of the first things that I can closely relate to is the way Rachel describes life as “ the way you grow is like an onion or like the rings of a tree trunk or like the wooden dolls that fit one inside the other.” (19-21) This speaks to me because Rachel seems like as a soft spoken girl Since she is reflecting on age, it shows us that Rachel does a lot more thinking than she ever does when she when she is talking. Cisneros through the use of simile, shows us a very basic comparison of how years in a person can show up at any time or point in life. It shows us that you don't exactly feel old but eventually you do. A good example of this is when Cisneros states, “You don't feel eleven not right away… and you don't feel smart eleven not until you're almost twelve.” …show more content…

This also tells us that people at any given point in their life can experience and emotion and be any age at any time, again though the uses of simile. The simile shows us exactly how rachel feels; it shows us how humans can at one point can feel like they want to be older or younger based on life

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