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The irony of life is that as you grow older you want to experience your youth again, while at the time you are young all you want is to be older. In "" by Sandra Cisneros, Rachel is only years old, yet she would rather be one hundred and two. She feels that the o ....

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.... when you turn , you do not feel , but rather all the previous years together "like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box." The embarrassment Rachel feels is made apparent through the use of point of view, when her teacher makes her take the lost sweater in front of the whole class. Even if the ugly sweater with red plastic buttons and a stretched out collar and sleeves were hers, she would not admit it since "it was maybe a thousand years old," Rachel informs the reader. The teacher puts the sweater on Rachel’s desk, insisting that it belongs to Rachel; despite Rachel’s objections, the teacher makes her put the sweater on. Rachel tel ....