“ELEVEN” BY SANDRA CISNEROS

            The story Eleven by Sandra Cisneros, it tells the truth about birthdays and growing up.  Honestly, I don’t think that many people feel that they are the age they are right now, and it takes time to feel like you are maturing. Just like Rachel which is the main character and I think is the most I liked, experiences this. On her eleventh birthday she does not feel eleven, but ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, and so on, she feels that she is younger, and says that it takes time to feel like you are eleven. My least favorite character is Mrs. Price, just because I had a teacher like that once, and I can honestly say I know what is like to be embarrassed in front of the whole class, so I can say when the Mrs. Price made Rachel put on the old sweater that wasn’t actually hers, and made her cry, is when I felt more empathetic with the main character.  I really like this story because I think that everybody goes through what Rachel went trough, and I don’t think it stops, because I’m twenty three years old and I feel like I’m still twenty two, and it happens every year.