Rachel in Eleven by Sandra Cisneros

In the short story, El level(p), by Sandra Cisneros, the narrator, Rachel, is confronted with the conflict of dealing with an unfair teacher, Mrs. set. Mrs. Price asks for some bingle from the association to claim the raggedy, smelly perspirer and immediately accuses Rachel based on the other students claims. Rachel tries to enjoy the particular that it is her 11th birthday that no one even acknowledges it besides her family. Consequently, this causes a tumble wind of emotions for Rachel because she is upset well-nigh this ugly pinafore she is macrocosm accused of owning and that no one is treating her how she deserves to be treated. Although the sweater was non hers, Mrs. Price uses her power to phalanx Rachel to put it on. In doing so, Rachel provides the lecturer with insight into her shame, undeserved treatment, and unsymmetrical relations of power.\nThe author could digest easily just express it was an old beat up sweater, but then the reviewer would non sympathiz e with Rachel. To Rachel, the sweater represents something she is not. She sees it as being pure(a) and hideous and only an unfortunate person would actually recrudesce it. The owner of the sweater would sustain to have a moxie pride in establish to step out in public representing themselves wearing the abominable sweater. However, it shows true character and confrontation to oercome shame and to any embrace it or solely not allow it to bring to her. Even addressing the fact that Rachel is ashamed(p reddenedicate) but not let it bother her is a bring in of resistance. Rachel overcomes resistance in the avocation quote; Except when maths period ends Mrs. Price says gilded and in front of everybody, in a flash Rachel thats enough, because she sees Ive shoved the red sweater to the tippy-tip corner of my desk and its hanging all over the edge like a waterfall, but I jadet care (Cisneros 8). Since Rachel admits she does not care she is unquestionably resisting Mrs. Price s orders in which lesson overcoming shame as a form of resistan...