The Stolen Party

In the stolen Party by Lilia Heker, uses descriptive language and symbolism to show Rosaura’s emotions. In the Stolen party descriptive language shows itself when she came home and found out that her christmas dress was starched a pretty white. She also mentions that her hair was washed in apple vinegar so it would be shiny. She gave her dress a light toss. This wouldn’t be as effective if it just said” she gave her dress a toss”. An example of symbolism is when Rosara talks to the girl with the bow. She describes her as a blonde girl with a big, red bow. This shows that this girl is mean and represents truth because her comments hurt like the truth. Another similarity mentioned is when rosara mentions that the other kids have butter fingers,

In the short story “Stolen Party” By Liliana Heker, theres is a lot of foreshadowing what the end result of the story will eventually come to. In the end of this story, the main character Rosaura, goes to a birthday party but her mom told her it was a bad idea to go because her mom is the maid for the family. Rosaura went anyways and felt like she had an amazing time. In the end, while waiting for her goodie bag, the host of the party, Senora Ines, gave her money instead of a gift, showing that she wasn't a real guest at this party, she was more like a maid.

“The Stolen Party” by Liliana Heker is a short story about a girl’s life experience that changes her point of view on society. One day, she gets an invitation to a rich daughter’s birthday. Her mother is a maid and works for them. Rosaura’s youth and innocence shows that she doesn’t realize the true meaning of the invitation, and firmly believes that there is no social distinction between the rich and the poor. She believes that even if she is the maid’s daughter she is welcomely accepted in the party. Although she is only nine years old, Rosaura feels confident that she knows more about rich people than her mother. Heker uses symbols and figurative language to convey “to always

Thus, he treats her like a child and “laughs at [her]… ” and calls her a “‘...little girl’” (Gilman 90, 94). For these two female characters in “A Rose for Emily” and “The Yellow Wallpaper”, their struggles are a direct result of male dominance, and their coping mechanism escorts them away from the world that devalues them.

With all the troubles in the adult’s world, the children seek a refuge from adult supervision and harassment. Monkey Garden is that refuge; it is a place where the neighborhood kids can misbehave, play and still be kids. In one instance Esperanza is pressured into changing herself because of the different situations that Sally, Esperanza’s sexually bold friend. Sally puts her in these situations by lying or abandoning Esperanza. After feeling ashamed of not understanding why Sally flirts with the boys in The Monkey Garden, Esperanza comes to a realization with the following quote, “And the garden that had been such a good place to play didn’t seem mine either” (Cisneros 98). Sally puts Esperanza in a situation where she feels ashamed and uncomfortable being in her own skin and not understanding how Sally acts with the boys. Whereas Esperanza initially pays close attention when her and Sally discuss things, including boys and sex, when Sally abandons Esperanza at the fair, she discovers that how Sally describes sex is not how Esperanza first encounters it, because she is raped and, clearly it is a horrible experience. She says, “Sally, you lied. It wasn’t what you said at all. What he did. Where he touched me. I didn’t want it Sally.” (Cisneros 99) Sally is not a loyal friend to Esperanza. She has been left on her own to deal with this horrible experience that is forcing her to shed all childhood innocence.

Rosaura finally realizes the truth by Senora Ins at the end of the party by giving her two bills and insisting her as her pet. Rosaura’s happiness was shattered and heart broken by the harsh words by Senora Ins (“Stolen Innocence: A close reading and critical analysis of Liliana Hekers “The Stolen Party”).

Miranda meets a man named Dev at an expensive make-up counter where she becomes enamored with his charm and appearance and from then on continues a relationship with him. Similarly, Miranda’s perspective of her new love is widely altered by her co-worker Laxmi, who usually has stories of heartbreak surrounding her cousin's adulterous husband. Soon Laxmi ends up inviting her poor cousin up to New York for a consoling spa day, but forgets about who will have the responsibility of watching her nephew. So Miranda ends up doing it out of niceness, where she is immediately met with the behavior of a rude elementary school boy named Rohin. 7 year old Rohin goads her into making him coffee, drawing pictures with him, letting him follow her around her apartment, go through her stuff, and just invade her general privacy. Eventually, she is convinced to try on a set of party clothes she had bought with the intention of of wearing in the presence of her lover and a fancy setting. Rohin exclaims and tells her she is “sexy”, something her lover had said just a week earlier. The word choice spurs Miranda to ask the young boy if he knows what he has just said to her, and he tells her he believes that thinking someone is sexy is the equivalent of loving someone you do not know. This makes her realize the impact that his

In “The Stolen Party”, Rosaura is the main character, also a young girl who is financially disadvantaged. Her mother is a maid for a rich family. Rosaura is very excited to be invited to the rich family’s party for their daughter, but her mother does not share her excitement. Her mother tries to explain

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The story represents Rosaura as an educated daughter, a part of the "aristocracy" who was described to possess the ability to read in a country where the illiteracy rate was very high. It can be assumed through Puerto Rican history and through the narrative description in the story, that unless you were of the wealthy class, education was not an option: "...she was forced to leave school because of his poor business deals" (p.9). The literacy rate was very poor in Puerto Rico which was a farming country. The characters that were literate in the Poisoned Story also represent the idea of who usually writes history, which is the literate, or the rich.

   In Liliana Heker’s story, "The Stolen Party," the young child Rosaura is hurt because she is a victim of a class structure which keeps the rich on the top and people like her and her mother at the bottom of society. By the end of the story Rosaura will have learned a very important lesson in class structure which, because it is so traumatic for her, she will carry with her for the rest of her life.

Theses 2 characters helped the thing know what it was becoming. Chichi, the mom, tells the girl to tell her a story but the young girl says she does not know any stores. The mom says “There are a thousand stories inside you. You just have to open your mouth.” At the time the girl did not know what she was talking about, she did not think it meant anything until she met the stranger. The girl’s mom died so she felt sad and lonely, this is when she became a women. She walked until she saw the stranger. The stranger had rice husk and cassava flakes in his mouth. The stranger asked to see her mouth but she responded by saying she was not like him, and he said “Everyone’s mouth is the type of mouth which has things spouting inside.” When she opened her mouth she had a helm of dhow, red cardigans, and off white canvas shoes in it. The stranger told her to suck on them, this meant that she soaked up the meaning of these items. Lucero mentioned that the stranger represents life. The stranger taught the women what to do with the objects, he guided her on how to see life. Life teaches you on how to make friend. They both sat on a roof top and talked about everything they saw like all the people that walked by, this symbolized friendship. The only people that would have a conversation like this would be two best friends. The stranger taught her that a mirror does not define who she is, she can become whoever she wants to be.

When she answers the only noise she hears is rattling from Toshio, but it is not just coming from the phone, it is also coming from the stall beside of her. As she run out toward the security guards office, she loses a key chain of a teddy bear, which she later discovers in her bed as she is dragged under the covers.