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Lindsey Cassinelli IB/Honors English 11 Mrs. Henle 6 November 2002 Age DOES Matter Many adults agree that children today are growing up too fast. Currently, children are beginning to mature at earlier ages than in the past. In Sandra Cisneros's short story, "Eleven," the protagonist, Rachel, is one of these children. Rachel is a dynamic character who wakes up on her eleventh birthday to find that she still feels ten years old. Rachel questions the significance of age eleven when at school, she gets humiliated in front of her class by her teacher, and wishes she were older so she would know how to handle the situation. Through Cisneros's use of elementary similes, repetition, and imagery, Rachel's childlike characteristics are revealed. Rachel's young perspective on life is exposed through the comparisons she makes. Rachel feels no change when she turns eleven and describes growing "like my little wooden dolls that fit one inside the other,...

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