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Eleven Steaminess Rating

Exactly how steamy is this story?

G

Steaminess in "Eleven"? Yeah… no.

Our protagonist, Rachel, has just turned eleven years old in this short story, so her struggles with understanding sexuality are still a few years away. True, there are stories with girls dealing with sexuality at extraordinarily young ages—Lolita being the go-to example—but Cisneros's tale isn't one of them. Instead, Rachel's extraordinary experience is found in the more typical eleven-year-old's world of red sweaters and math problems.