Foreshadowing In Liliana Hecker's The Stolen Party

Warnings are key elements utilized by some authors in stories in order to engage the audience in continuing to read to the story. Furthermore, warnings can take form of key elements of plot such as foreshadowing and act as literary devices such as mood. The “Stolen Party” written by Liliana Hecker, uses foreshadowing to communicate Rosaura’s different status prior to the people invited to the party. The “Empty Amulet” written by Paul Bowles, uses mood to communicate Habiba’s encounter of conflicts in spite of her development into a free woman across the story. Nonetheless, Hecker uses foreshadowing, whilst Bowles uses mood as means of warning and therefore they compare and contrast.
Hecker manipulates the element of foreshadowing in order to warn the audience of the encounter of two unequal of-class members at a rich member’s party. In other words, the encounter of Rosaura and high-class or rich members invited to Luciana’s party, like Luciana, Senora Ines, and the girl with the bow. In addition, throughout the story Luciana’s mother is referred to “Senora Ines” rather than Ines, and if considering the story being told in the first person POV (Rosaura) is true; then Senora is merely an added honorific to Ines by Rosaura since she is a rich woman. Furthermore, in the …show more content…
Hecker demonstrates how an ordinary low class member is maltreated as opposed to