Character and Art: Cisneros, "Eleven" by Anne Glosky https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven Post your art to depict the narrator in Sandra Cisneros' short story "Eleven." en-us 2016-06-20 11:41:52 UTC 2025-11-10 23:40:39 UTC hello@padlet.com Sandra Cisneros https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367043311 author of "Eleven"]]> 2019-06-11 22:06:53 UTC https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367043311 https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367193333 Her emotions are represented by years of life in the story.  The narrator wants to be able to contain her emotions.  Here the boxes begin to spill out and finally erupt as the narrator loses control of her emotions. The boxes are sort of like how we want to contain our emotions, and the stacking nature of them is similar to how we think of years.  Also looks sort of like how she explains feeling about age being rings on a tree.]]> 2019-06-12 14:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367193333 Rachel is thinking about the layers of her feelings going all the way back to first memories. She is feeling sharp and potentially shattered by how her teacher is treating her. https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367193375     ]]> 2019-06-12 14:30:45 UTC https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367193375 https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367193626 She feels stuck in that desk like this maze-like design. And all she can see is the red of that sweater.]]> 2019-06-12 14:31:31 UTC https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367193626 Humiliation and Callousness https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367193712 https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79501?classifications=9&date_begin=1850&date_end=2019&locale=en&on_view=1&page=1&q=&with_images=1

]]> 2019-06-12 14:31:52 UTC https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367193712 https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367193715 "When you're eleven, you're also ten, and nine, and eight..." Past versions of herself (and her emotions) shining through to present.]]> 2019-06-12 14:31:52 UTC https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367193715 She wants us to see it's her birthday, but all we see is the sweater. https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367193750 2019-06-12 14:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367193750 11 https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367193961 “It’s maybe a thousand years old...”]]> 2019-06-12 14:32:37 UTC https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367193961 https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367194073 "Today I wish I was one hundred and two I'd have known what to say when Mrs. Price put the red sweater on my desk."]]> 2019-06-12 14:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367194073 11 aray06 https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367194194 2019-06-12 14:33:32 UTC https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367194194 Humiliation and Callousness https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367194199 2019-06-12 14:33:33 UTC https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367194199 Olivetti Lexikon https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367194222 The image of this typewriter shows a ball bouncing along the keys. The ball shows how each year passes, but the other years (and other keys) are still there are still part of what is essential to the image and to the typewriter. ]]> 2019-06-12 14:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367194222 That's when everything that I've been holding in since this morning, since when Mrs. Price put the sweater on my desk, finally let's go, and all of a sudden I'm crying in front of everybody. https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367194303 2019-06-12 14:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367194303 11 aray06 https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367194342 A sad girl putting on the red sweater. ]]> 2019-06-12 14:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367194342 Self absorbed https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367194483 The teacher is thinking of what she wants: to
 keep things moving along and to maintain her authority.  In the process she doesn't see the student and looses a beautiful opportunity to care.]]> 2019-06-12 14:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367194483 https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367194946 I chose this image because the character is saying how you don't ever really feel your age. She knows she's eleven, but it's hard for her to believe. She acts all different ages throughout the day, and the mirror represents her in all of those different stages. ]]> 2019-06-12 14:36:34 UTC https://padlet.com/anne_glosky/Eleven/wish/367194946