Mrs. Price takes the sweater and puts it right on my desk, but when I open my mouth nothing comes out.
“That’s not, I don’t, you’re not . . . Not mine,” I finally say in a little voice that was maybe me when I was four.
“Of course it’s yours,” Mrs. Price says. “I remember you wearing it once.” Because she’s older and the teacher, she’s right and I’m not.
—“Eleven,”
Sandra Cisneros
Which detail from "Eleven" supports the idea that growing up can be tough on kids?
The teacher puts the sweater on the narrator’s desk.
The narrator quietly says that the sweater is not hers.
The teacher says she remembers the narrator wearing the sweater.
The narrator won’t disagree with her teacher, because the teacher is an adult.