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"Eleven" by Sandra Cineros
Monday, November 10, 2014
'Eleven' by Sandra Cisneros
The second piece is entitled 'Eleven' written by Sandra Cisneros. Cisneros captures what it means to be a kid and the
overwhelming embarrassment that accompanies childhood. This story about an
11-year-old's birthday manages to perfectly encapsulate what it feels like to
be that age and how that feeling never quite leaves you. As Cisneros writes,
"The way you grow old is kind of like an onion or like the rings inside a
tree trunk." You may add experiences, but you still keep the child within.
Comments are due by November 11th.
"Eleven" by Sandra Cineros
Comments are due by November 11th.
"Eleven" by Sandra Cineros
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I agree with the writer, something your birthday will come and you feel younger you're. Moreover sometimes your thinking go beyond your age.
ReplyDeleteThe expression Sandra Cisneros expresses through the character of a kid can reflect to the thought that runs along many peoples mind. As it does in mine, I can relate to everything she included in her text. As she says that you will not feel your certain age until a few days months or weeks shows that Sandra's mind clearly understands how other readers may think this also shows her strengthens as a author by catching readers attention in a much general and natural topic.
ReplyDeleteWhen you're a kid and feel afraid of something, that something just doesn't go away when you start aging. Sandra Cisneros made us all go back to a childhood anecdote most of us at some point had. Sometimes it is really hard to speak up and it's even worse when you don't learn to speak up as a child, you grow up not having the courage to do it.
ReplyDeleteI understand Rachel because when its my birthday I do not feel a year older. Many times when we are sad or acting stupid people tell us to act our age, but in reality we were that age before so technically we are acting our age. And when you are as young as eleven everything seems so big. She was still getting accustomed to the idea of growing up and acting more mature, I feel like for young kids speaking up or standing up for yourself seems like a big task.
ReplyDeleteI understand Rachel because when your a kid most of the time you don't speak up for yourself. You understand that something is wrong or something should be done differently yet you don't speak up. I personally had this problem when I was young because I was shy and would just let things happen without really giving my opinions.I also understand when she says that it takes time to feel 11. Even when you turn 11 you still might say your 10 because you still feel 10. It takes time to grow up. I could relate to this story because of person experiences in the past but it is difficult for a child to speak up for themselves at a young age.
ReplyDeleteI can relate to Rachel. When I was a little girl, I was always afraid to speak up. I was shy and whatever my teachers said I would do. Another thing I can relate to is when she says that not only is she eleven, but she's ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two and one. No matter how old we get we will always have those days when we are sad or moments of silliness. Your age doesn't matter because there will always be something you do that isn't your age. I always hear the expression "act your age" but really, there are always going to be times when we act immature or just simply not our age.
ReplyDeleteLike Rachel’s experience, some people will be afraid of when they are growing up. They doubt their own abilities are not enough for their own ages. They are afraid of losing some rights, like Rachel cried like 3 years old. It becomes a shame behavior when he is 11. I agree author when people one year old grow up that not mean everything has changed. Everything just like yesterday. But people should know how to learn and raise them up. That needs a process of growing up. When Rachel turns to 11, I think the birthday remind him to be stronger. And he doesn’t have to shame of himself when he is crying. Growing up is not mean limiting behaviors, it means people become steeled through hardship and to be stronger.
ReplyDeleteSandra Cisneros is a genius, I love the way she explains we're not just that one age but to also remember we were once younger. That we are allowed to be any age we want to at our own free will, and she describes it through the perspective of Rachel. The urge of wanting to feel older but yet you're still to young. Ironically, I am one of those people to believe I will be a kid at heart and forever young... Not forever but you get my drift. I feel as if you can use this as an excuse to feel young again. Currently I wish I was young again, where I know I'm not constantly being judged upon the decisions I make, from playing tag with my elementary school friends (who I actually still have contact and play tag with when we're bored) or playing games such as yugioh or pokemon. I hate the fact I can't act as young as I want to because I'm a certain age and people expect us to act our age.
ReplyDeleteAs I'm reading this short story I must say that I wasn't interested at all. The story was very catchy in the beginning because we can all relate to having a birthday and by saying that we carry all our previous ages with us was very clever. The emotions that she used for different ages made clear sense and yes sometimes we are a certain age but can act like another. The part where I was confused as to why the story turned into a scenario about a sweater. The only way that I can relate the story to her birthday is by the younger emotion she felt when crying. I think the author could of created a better story to clearly define what she meant turning eleven.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with you when it comes to the twist in the story about the red sweater. What teacher really forces you to do something you don't want to do? This story was out of the ordinary to me but I agree with the author, when our birthday comes we carry all our previous ages with us and it takes some time to get use to saying our new age. To relate emotions with our younger age, I don't agree with that. I'm nineteen and when I need to cry I cry, I don't feel as though I'm a two year old. As you grow older and wiser you learn how to handle and control your emotions better.
DeleteI actually disagree with the two previous comments about the "twist" in the story. I enjoyed how she took a brief break on her point of age being subjective, and not only subjective but transcendent. The author elaborated on the her point by pulling the reader into her world. For a moment I was sitting at the desk being accused of owning a sweater that did not belong to me not knowing how to answer and defend myself from this authority figure. For a moment I was eleven with the vocabulary and mental fortitude of a three year old. I really enjoyed this piece.
DeleteI can relate to the writer. I had a terrible Birthday once. I remember when I woke up on my birthday I said to myself That I shouldn't go to work. But I did anyway. well I was supposed to have gotten off work at 330pm but instead I had to work until 1130. On top of that an inmate got into a fight and i had to write a report on what had happened. I felt really sick as I was told that I had to complete my report before I left the building.All I could think of was How stupid I was because had I stayed home in the first place I wouldn't be in this predicament.I went into the bathroom to express my feelings in private so that no one could see how the tears ran down my face in sadness. Wondering how my birthday was going without me at home. I wondered would anyone be awake to great me at the door as they would have done had I reached home in time.When I finally left work I just wanted to sleep and forget all about that day.Even though it was my birthday!!!
ReplyDeleteI read this story in the third grade. Now it makes more sense to me. Like Rachel I can relate to her being afraid to turn eleven because you don't what to expect or act your age. You feel scared because if you cry you going to feel like your younger. That scared Rachael especially when she didn't know how to stand up for herself and say that it wasn't her sweater. Instead she cried and felt like she was 3. but after time passes you will accept your age and once again repeat the cycle.
ReplyDeleteThis story is recalled me some sad memories. When my birthday is coming, I always try to prepare but when the day has come it is like I have never done anything. The fact that the author was turning eleven did not mean she will have the maturity of an eleven years old. Some circumstances will bring at the surface the immature person that resides in you. She wanted to have a wonderful birthday thinking that she will be able to overcome everything as an adult as she is turning to eleven but to a great surprise, she turns to three in her eleventh birthday. Being unable to express yourself or to defend yourself is a though feeling......
ReplyDeleteI think we all go through what Rachel goes through when we don't feel we've turned a certain age on our birthday. We all most likely have wanted to grow up faster and get to that age we dream of but when we finally do it's not that big of a deal. Some of us still might have the tendency to say the age we were the day before our birthday because nothing feels different. I don't think growing up has to with your age. Growing up has to do with your mind set. You may feel scared to act a certain way because you don't want to cry like a 3 year old, or complain like a 9 year old. You want to be much more mature than what you are but at the end of the day we are all big kids, that have acknowledged when to act like one and when not to. If we didn't have a little kid inside of us we wouldn't be able to enjoy life, but we are constantly getting judged for that.
ReplyDeleteI remember when I was younger, I wanted to be old to be able to do what adults do like driving a car or working instead of going to school. And now that I am older, I wish I could get back to the times when I was a child because there were no worries at all. When I was a child, I didn't have to deal with any bills, it was a stress-free life. Sandra Cisneros says, "You may add experiences, but you still keep the child within". I agree with her that as you get older, the child in you still remains.
ReplyDeleteI simply adored this story! Its so cute and very relatable. When i was younger i had a similar situation as Rachel. Its like adults don't want to listen to you because their always right despite the situation and its very true that when they are wrong they pretend like nothing happened. This happens to me to this very day unfortunately. But I've never read such a charming little story such as this. It was really enjoyable to read.
ReplyDeleteWen we are children we think being grown up its easier because you have the freedom to do anything that you want , but what we really don't understand is that its really more stressful and also we have to be more mature . College life its hard and so stressful that you don't have time to do anything that you want to do especially if you have to work on top of that .Like Rachel she didn't know how to act when she turn 11 but as older you get you get more mature and you really don't have to think about it , it just happens because you realize what is important .
ReplyDeleteThe way Cisneros relates emotions to age is quite moving. It's hard enough to explain why we feel the way we feel towards any situation, but to be able to reason them out by just explaining that maybe today I want to be 3, is comforting. I find it easier to have an explanation behind any of my emotions, to make reason for why I feel the way I feel, so that in the end that reason can take blame for it, and not myself. But in reality sometimes we don't have a reason and sometimes we as people try not to feel a certain emotion at all because of our age and the way other people would perceive us, because "We all grow wiser with age." But in the end, we should be enlightened by Cisneros point of view, that were not just 11, but all the ages combined before 11, for it gives us reason that it is okay to feel 2.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with the author Sandra Cisneros of the article “Eleven”, specially because I experience the same feeling. I just turned 19 on last week of October, it’s been two weeks. However, I still feel that I am 18 and I don’t see any difference in my life. I am the same person doing same things I do everyday. 18 or 19 just a number to me. When someone asks me how old I am, I sometimes say that I am 18, then I have to change it to 19. In addition, the author states that when “you're eleven, you're also ten, and nine, and eight, and seven, and six, and five, and four, and three, and two, and one”. I support this because sometimes I get scare of little things like i was when I was 4 or 5. I would cry front of group of group like I was 3. Sometimes I need to sit near my parents and discuss my problems like I was 8. For that reason, I believe everyone has that child behavior inside of them, no matter how old they are.
ReplyDeleteFor everyone who had a birthday, it is an important moment on a person's life where he/she slowly starts from being a kid to becoming an adult. But there are moments when birthdays aren't worth celebrating especially when things could go sour in a matter of minutes. I think that Rachel is feeling the same way because of the humiliation she had to go through on her birthday. Some may say that once you grow up you'll understand however, even as a grown up there are things even adults don't understand or they just don't care to understand. In any case it's not always rainbows and butterflies for all birthdays. Every person has a different experience. Nothing more or nothing less.
ReplyDeleteI think everyone can remember an unhappy birthday, I sure can. One year when I was turning eight or nine my mother scheduled my birthday on the same day there were rehearsals for the church Christmas pageant, so only one person showed up and it was a boy I really didn't like, but he was our neighbor so my mother always made me invite him. I was devastated partly because no one came, but also because I was fairly new in the town and felt like I wasn't part of my class. For years after that birthday I despised celebrating it. I think it also had to do with the fact that the holidays were surrounding my birthday so it always felt overshadowed by the celebrating. The other aspect of this story that seems universally relatable is having all of your years inside of you, like the rings on a tree. I really love this analogy and believe it to be true. We all have moments when our inner child comes out or we have to hold back wanting to act like we are the person we were years ago. I too always wonder why I don't feel different when I wake up the day of my birthday....
ReplyDeleteI love this piece of Sandra Cisneros. I believe we all have an inner child, it does not matter how old we are. As the author says getting older is like wooden dolls that fit one inside the other. Somehow Cisneros is able to make the readers relate to her writing, she has the magic to catch readers. I remember that when I was in middle school, we read The House in Mango Street and I loved it as well. I also agree that we never really adapt to say the age you just turned into, and when you do, you are turning older. When somebody as me how old I am, I quickly respond a year younger and then I have to correct myself and when I get used to my new age, my birthday is around the corner.
ReplyDeleteIt was rather unfortunate that Rachel had to endure such humiliation on her eleventh birthday,but soon she'll learn that it's okay to show emotions It doesn't matter how old you are even if your'e a hundred and two. I know a lot of people including myself always anticipate to feel much more mature, once your'e a year older but that great expectation of maturity comes overtime. So it's okay Rachel to sob like a 3 year old even when your eleven... ..........
ReplyDeleteI remember quite a similar situation happend to me during my middle school year. My english teacher hit me and my deskmate on my birthday with bell for shouting in her class which we did not. I totally understand how Rachel have felt after her teacher did harsh things on her birthday in the class. In the article, "Eleven" Sandra Cisneros shared a little girl who see no changes in her behavoir when she turned eleven years old. It is pitiful when Rachel reacted like a three old child, crying in front of the other student in class which I guess we all had gone that stage somewhere in our life. Behaving like a small kid and crying in my believe is normal.
ReplyDeleteIn the article "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros, she uses symbolism to characterize how an eleven year old is coming of age and how humiliating it can be to be an eleven year old. Cisneros also explains how age deeply connects to ones feelings and emotions.
ReplyDeleteI can understand Cisneros, even on my birthday I don't feel like I've gone up in age. It's not a one day process, I still feel like I was before my birthday. However, I don't mind growing up, or becoming one year older.
ReplyDeleteI never really celebrated birthdays. I like to think everyday is my birthday. We all have a spirit in us that makes us young at heart at times. We go through stages in our lives that are good and bad which helps to mold our wisdom. I like the saying, if you laugh the world laughs with you. Birthdays are great for family and friends to get together and celebrate another year of hope and happiness. Aging is just a number and it doesn't define the person. The story is a great example of a persons learning experience of emotions through life and not by a number.
ReplyDeleteI understand Rachel because my birthday is coming up next month and I'm not even going to feel a year older than what I am now. I'm still going to feel younger than what my actual age is.
ReplyDeleteI believe we all have an inner child, it does not matter how old we are. No matter how old we get we will always have those days when we are sad or moments of silliness. But I can relate to Sandra Cisneros because up to this day, I’m still afraid to speak up and I believe it had something to do when I was growing up. But in reality sometimes it’s really hard to speak up, especially when you have grown up with that fear of not being able to speak up and eventually not having the courage to do it.
ReplyDeleteI agree and can relate to the author because at times I don't feel like I'm 19 and maybe because nothing has really changed from when I was 17/18. People go threw different emotions everyday and just because your a young adult doesn't mean that you shouldn't whine or cry like a little toddler. Age doesn't always define or control a persons feelings or actions.
ReplyDeleteThis story make me remember when I turned 18, graduated from high school and got my first job. I felt that i want it to be 15 year old again with no responsibilities besides going to school on time and do homework. I agree with the author because everybody at some point in their life felt the need to go back to the pass and be a child.
ReplyDeleteI find it interesting that Sandra Cisneros put emphasis on the fact that you aren't really just the age you are turning but in reality you are all the ages that you where before. I also find it interesting that she says that when its your Birthday it may not even feel like its really you birthday it just feel like and regular day it don't even feel special.
ReplyDeleteI kind of agree with the author that we still sometimes don't feel that we grew up by only a year or a few years. I mean i get to a state where i became 18 yrs old last few months and at the same time I am confuse because I was thinking that it is the age where it is legal to have license, open bank accounts, etc. , and especially get facebook accounts or yahoo accounts legally because a few years ago you can't create facebook accounts when you are not 18 yrs old or older. I also can't believe that at this time of my age, I need to take responsibilities as an adult and should care about what actions should be good or bad, I mean it feels like I was just 17 yrs old yesterday. At the same time, the author and I are opposites with wanting to grow older. I feel like going back to my younger days because you can do whatever you want, say what you want and just play around with kids. Being 18 yrs old means that we tend to have responsibilities such as passing college, getting a job, and taking care of your family, etc.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was 9 to13 years old I never through about how old I was turning. I remember that I lonely wanted to be an adult because like Richel I sometimes had communication problems in school, and I saw my sister, who was older than me , was living an easy life. however, when I became an adult many times I wanted to be a child again because that stage of life is the most beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI found this story to be interesting because of the way the writer expressed childhood emotions with the language of an adult. the feelings the protagonist is going through are familiar and can remind you of feelings you felt as a child, but the narration processes the emotions in a more mature way then one would be able to express as a child. Even the prose of the story suggests this theme as it's written in a style that is more sophisticated then would written by a child but many of the metaphors and similes used are as simple as something that would be compared by a child.
ReplyDeleteI can relate to the main character in the story because there are times in which I wanted to be a younger age to avoid responsibilities and sometimes even wished to be older than what I am to be allowed to do more things. I recently turned eighteen and I still take a while to say how old I am because I still think I am seventeen. There are moments, like the author said, where my 7 year old side wants to come out and then there are times when i want to be 14 or at least go back to how my life was at that time. I believe that at some point in our lives we tend to want to act a different age, whether that is being older or younger in order to escape what we are currently going through.
ReplyDeleteWe all cry because we all humans and even animals cry. I believe crying comes through your heart something with in you like a key or a button you pressing. People cry when they excited and when they very sad. Age don't really have to do with anything because my 107 great grandfather cried everyday when he lost his 3 years ago. Yes I agree I don't feel like I turned 19 today but when I turn 20 I'm going to say the same thing. Physically I feel like we change every year like today I feel more tired and lazy but when I was 18 I feel like I had a whole bunch of strength and energy. What makes you change every year is the people who you hang out with or your environment changes you.
ReplyDeleteSandra Cineros put what everybody thinks into words. We all know what it feels like being a kid. As kids we're not aloud to say everything and it's not till a certain age that we can finally say whatever we want. Crying feels like you're three because that's the only time it's "acceptable", many people don't like crying in front of other people once they're older. There are certain ages where some things are okay without being judged and that's what Sandra is trying to say.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with Sandra Cineros on her short story. Growing up i think everyone can relate to this story. As we all grow up, waking up to another day that should be filled with happiness that one looks fowad to, instead, it just turns out to be any other regular day except one turns a year "older" which inisurlly doesn't kick in until maybe 6months into the year. (from my point of view). The main character set a great example as to how one can grow old but yet still feel as if they did months ago. The character also uses her mother as a comparison to her because at some point in life, it is okay for everyone to cry. age shouldn't justify ones emotion or feelings. I can relate to this because growing up, i always count down to my ig 18 year birthday. I couldn't wait to be legal to do everything i wanted to do and had in mind. Funny enough, on my 18th birthday i just stayed home like it was any other regular day. till tis day, i have given up on looking forward to my birthday.
ReplyDeleteI understand exactly what Sandra Cineros is going for, she explains inside the tree trunks rings and the toys were the many little other people inside another people is just like life it self. As for birthdays you get older not only are you growing but will always have the many younger ages of your self still there and don't forget about them but as well as it will never leave its apart of your growing.
DeleteThe article is very relate-able, even though the girl in the narrative is only eleven. I can relate to this kid , the emotion the character puts off is very vivid. Brings back memories of being young and people telling me I couldn't do certain things because I was too young. The same reasoning the child figures out the teacher is trying to use against her.
ReplyDeleteI remember turning nine all of the sudden it was my birthday. I woke up that morning thinking wow today I am getting older. I don’t know exactly what was it that made me feel the way I did and in my mind all those thoughts saying to me, yes realize that you are getting older and nothing will stop me from that. I felt for a moment it was too late to go back. I felt sad for some reason but I couldn’t really say why, maybe it was because of the fact that people made me feel like I wasn’t that little girl no more the one that mami takes care, mami making me food and getting me ready to go to school. At the end of that day I went to bed and just like Cisneros says it took me weeks or I think even months to realize that people were asking what was my age and I kept saying I was eight. I don’t know but I think almost everybody experienced the same thing. Cisneros was right every birthday you feel the same kind of way just one more year adding up in your life.
ReplyDeleteRachel turns 11 and she still feels like she is 10. We all feel that way when we turn into a certain age. We all feel one year younger. She is still young and its okay for her to cry, even thought she didn't want to, but she will forget about it later after she eats cake and celebrates her birthday with her family. Time passes by quickly and we can't control that. We all have good and bad experiences in the past, but thats what makes us grow as a person. I know she would have to face more obstacles in the future. Her experience is just the beginning of growing up. (Adrian Castro)
ReplyDeleteAs I was reading I felt like I was in the authors world. It even gave me flashbacks of when I was younger. When I was twelve I had two older siblings, one was 16 and the other was 18. Unlike me they had more privileges. And at one point I got jealous and couldnt wait until I hit that age so that I could do more things. For example like staying out late, sleeping over at friends house, having my own phone, being able to drive, and ect. Now that I'm older, I wish I was twelve again. I wouldn't have to worry about responsibilities. I agree with the author because when you turn a different age you really don't feel it until days/weeks or even months later. There were times when people asked me "how old are you" and I would say an age younger then what I am.
ReplyDeleteReading this piece of writing made me look a child's point of view completely differently. I live with three children. I expect them to understand things as they are without a problem, not taking into consideration the only experience they have is little more than that of an infant. I realized that children really are simply children.
ReplyDeleteThe reading was vivid and grabbed my attention. I was able to keep the main idea throughout the reading because the writer kept mentioning the years (10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1). The way she caused the events to wrap around the main idea was brilliant. The focus and purpose of the writing was clear and creative.
Reading this peace bring me memory when I was very young. Once I was the last child of my family. Moreover, sometimes I used to get jealous of sister and brother of the way they used to get everything they want, because they was able to afford it. While I was wishing to get older and be able to do thing own. Now that I'm older I wish I was still a kids again with no responsibilities. Furthermore, I will not have to worried about no bills, no caring for the family ect. I wish I cod rewind my life of just being a kids for ever.
ReplyDeleteThe one line that stuck with me when reading the story was one of the first lines at the beginning that says, “And when you wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven, but you don’t.” The reason this line really resonated with me was because when I was younger I always thought that when I finally turned 16 life would be so different. But to my surprise, it wasn't. Nothing changed, nothing extraordinary happened, my outlook on life hadn't altered in ways I expected it would've. The sense of maturity I was expecting hadn't found me just yet. After that initial disappointment I still held too much optimism for the future in terms of finally stepping outside of myself, stretching my wings and discovering a whole new me. Placing a similar expectancy on the age of 18, I found myself still waiting for that final breakthrough, those typical teen experiences that only existed in movies. Again just as before, those years came and passed me by without the slightest of evolvement that would change the ways that I view myself. Still, even as I enter the world of adulthood, I find myself still waiting for that one birthday that would magically transform me into the mature and responsible adult I had expected to become so many years ago.
ReplyDeleteThe article "Eleven", by Sandra Cisneros expresses some feelings towards her childhood. First of all, she talks her birthdays and she decends her birthdays. She also has a bad experiences of clothings. I think she wants to be a small kid again where she was freed. When I get too tired, I want to be a small child where I do not need to care about anything. I still remember that my dad used to say to me " you dont need to do anything " which reminds me and I look those days. Cisneros talks about her shyness, It can be happened in many children. Shy and fear always happened in my life because beating a child is a normal in my country. If your child makes any mistake , you beat your child or scare that he does not make same fault again. Thus, this story is interesting for me.
ReplyDeleteThe author shows how her childhood effected her adulthood now she seems to be standing up for herself as in the past she was afraid to. I could relate to the author since when I was young I was afraid to stand up for myself, as I went through High School I speak for myself and help others.
ReplyDeleteI never thought of age in such a way. It really takes me back to wwheni was a child and i had my own abstract thoughts about the way things work. But this is truly a creative piece and i admire its originality.
ReplyDeleteThat was my favorite of all reading assignments on this blog.That's because it reminds me of my childhood.When I was 11,I too,was afraid to stand up for my self,maybe because the world seemed bigger,and scarier,maybe because you had grown ups tell you what to do.At age 11,you would get yelled at by a teacher at school,and remember it and carry it with you for years.I think how we grow up,plays an important role on the adult we are going to be,how we are dealing with things,and how we deal with responsibilities.Sandra Cisneros gave us a picture of how her childhood was,and how she believed she was 102,anything but not 11! I can relate to that,now that i'm in my 20's i think that my childhood has affected my adulthood,for example,i don't always stand up for my self.
ReplyDeleteI like how the author tells the story from the perspective of Rachel. I also like when she says that she is eleven but also ten, nine,... This makes me think that when we age we gain experience and knowledge but we can feel, cry and play as if we were children.
ReplyDeleteThis short story is really confusing to me and the thing that confuses me the most is what the she is trying to say like she says when you are 11 you are all the other years before 11 and then in the end she says she wishes to be 102 so she can be far away the bad experience she had when she was 11. What I thought a she was trying to say in the earlier paragraph was that even though she is 11 right now she shows all the emotion that are suppose to be something that is shown in the earlier ages. As i read the end I was confused of what her point was.
ReplyDeleteEveryone is afraid of responsibility as they get older and its something that makes you
ReplyDeleteThis story makes so much sense to me. And it interested me. At the end of the day we are still children in our hearts, even if just a little. Everyone needs to cry, needs to smile, needs to get angry. I totally agree with what the story is saying and I feel like that is an everyday thing in our lives. Everyday we go through our crazy emotions and sometimes even when 50 years old, you would want to be with your mother.
ReplyDeleteI feel like i can relate to this article because to me birthdays don't men nothing. Its not about how old you are,its about how old you act. when i was younger i was also afraid to say or do anything because i thought i would be judged or that i would end up doing or saying something wrong. So i like this story because i can relate.
ReplyDeleteWe are all kids deep down, maturity still exist but everyone deep down still is a kid. As a kid I was never afraid of being judge, it never even crossed my mind. I can relate to this story because is nothing but a number, I believe how your mindset is on certain things is what makes you mature.
ReplyDeleteI love how the author breaks down everyday emotions into actually stages of development in our lives, I think that she explains it very precise and depicts the subject of development into an interesting article. I have never thought about everyday emotion like this and this article now has shown me that we all have a form of immaturity inside us by nature.
ReplyDeleteI have read this story numerous times and it too is one of my favorites. I despise the fact that the teacher believes she is right only because she is an adult, and "adults are always right". I have been through moments like this where an adult says something and I know that it is not true, but because they were the adult it was the who was right. I agree with Steven, I too love how the author breaks down each emotion into different years of our lives. It makes sense in a way that each year of our lives is a part of us everyday in the present.
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