Only today I wish I didn't have only eleven years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box. Today I wish I was one hundred and two instead of eleven because if I was one hundred and two, I'd have known what to say when Mrs. Price put the red sweater on my desk. I would've known how to tell her it wasn't mine instead of just sitting there with that look on my face and nothing coming out of my mouth. —“Eleven,”
Sandra Cisneros

Read the passage. In a paragraph, describe the conflict and explain what it tells you about Rachel.

Rachel experiences a self vs self conflict in which she wishes that she was older, therefor holding more knowledge and maturity, and being able to face difficult situations more easily. This tells us that Rachel might be easily intimidated or scared, as well as wistful, and that she may have an idealization of becoming an adult.

Explanation:

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Sample Response:

The conflict in the passage is an internal conflict between Rachel and herself. Rachel wishes she were older because then she would be more likely to know what to do about the red sweater. It tells me that even though Rachel is a year older, she doesn't feel any wiser.

Explanation:

the primary theme of ha jin's “a decade” would be the need to revisit one's past to determine a path for the future. “a decade” is one of the twelve brief stories of ha jin's under the red flag, which takes place during the cultural revolution of china.