Rising Action #2
Theme
Resolution
Title of the Story
2nd Person Point of View
Conflict
Rising Action #3
Climax
Rising Action #1
Exposition
1st Person Point of View
Falling Action #1
Falling Action #2
Rachel is an 11-year old girl at school and it is her birthday.
Narrator directs the reader as "you".
Phyllis Lopez remembers the sweater is actually hers.
ELEVEN by Sandra Cisneros
Uses "I" and is usually the main character of the story (inside the story).
Mrs. Price becomes frustrated with Rachel and tells her "that's enough".
Mrs. Price orders Rachel to put on the sweater.
Rachel says softly that the sweater is not hers, but Mrs. Price doesn't believe her.
People don't really ever feel their age.
Rachel cries in front of the class.
Mrs. Price says the unclaimed, ugly, red sweater is Rachel's.
Rachel moves the ugly, red sweater to the corner of her desk.
Rachel's birthday has been ruined.
