Themes Of Eleven By Sandra Cisneros Novels & Stories

Night Eleven's envelope says: The original Nights Eleven and Twelve were about physical tension and control and the specific frustration of wanting something and being made to wait for it. For the new version, Night Eleven is about the wanting that doesn't have urgency in it. The wanting that can wait not because it's being withheld but because it has nowhere to go. It's just there. Permanent. Steady as the kitchen table. She reads this on a Wednesday morning. He's already at the barn office. She reads it with her coffee and the financial section and the specific frown she sometimes gets over numbers that don't add up, and she thinks about permanent wanting. The kind without urgency.

It wasn't that far from the bus stop to the flat, but she only had two uniforms to change between, if she got her uniform wet then, that meant she couldn't come to school tomorrow. Eleven's family's finances are far from decent, they only live on the remaining property that their mother has, her father, Thomas does not work, he only spends his wife's money buying alcohol and gambling. When it was getting dark, Eleven, who had been waiting for too long, was even more afraid. She knew her father would be furious if she came home late. So she decided to run to her flat, not caring if the heavy rain at that time drenched her body, she hoped her father would understand. But what she expected turn