In the short story, "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros the narrator Rachel is silenced. Rachel is given a hideous
sweater and is told it is hers and she says "(that's not, I don't, you're not ... Not mine." She is quiet and silent
when she speaks and she feels like she's four years old. She wants to speak up and tell everyone that the sweater
isn't hers but she doesn't know how to. She bottles up her feelings because she doesn't know how to let them show.
She unknowingly silences herself.
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Rachel and I both silence ourselves, one does it knowing and the other can't control it. Our silences are
both self-forced, we inflier the pain on ourselves and we bottle up our own emotions. Our pain was something we
both wanted other ppl to know but we just didn't know how to tell people. I didn't want people to worry or stress
about me and she just couldn't speak up. In the end, "It hat stupid Phyllis Lopez, who is even dumber than Sylvia
Saldivar, says she remembers the red sweater is hers!", which in turn made Rachel's thoughts be heard. In my
situation, my friends found out because someone asked me something and I just broke down erying. Both of our
feelings were shared, but not in the way we wanted to share it. We both silenced ourselves, but our thoughts were
told anyways.
Answer
Rachel and the narrator both experience self-forced silence, bottling up their emotions and not knowing how to express them. In the end, their feelings are shared, though not in the way they intended.
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