Avocado: After reading the passage, Eleven, explain why the author does not like being age 11.  If you could choose any age to be, what would it be and why?  Use evidence or related topics from the passage if possible.

Me: The author doesn’t like being age elven because the author says, “And when you wake up on your eleventh birthday you expect to feel eleven, but you don’t. You open your eyes and everything’s just like yesterday, only it’s
today. And you don’t feel eleven at all. You feel like you’re still ten. And you are –underneath the year that makes you eleven.” This proves that she just feels normal and still ten, even though she’s eleven. And that  can be frustrating because eleven is a difficult age.

Another piece from the article that supports the fact that the author does not like being age eleven is, “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.” When it says “Today I wish I was one hundred and two instead of eleven…” This proves that the author doesn’t want to be eleven.  If I could be any age I would either be 2 or 28. 2 because I wouldn’t have a care in the world, and I could sleep a lot. 28 because I would be old enough to play a professional sport (soccer). I would also have a good job.

If you could choose any age, what would it be, and why?