An Analysis Of Liliana Heker's The Stolen Party

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In “The Stolen Party,” Author known as Liliana Heker uses Third Person Limited point of view to make the story surprising and suspenseful. A suspenseful story will want the reader to continue the story to find the ending of the book, or in our case, A short story.
One reason for using third person limited is to know and only care about the protagonist's feelings. If it was first person, there would be no narrator, and we would only see her opinions, and possibly what is not really happening. Third Person Limited allows us only to focus on the main character, just like first person limited, but we see everything revolving around her, not anyone else. Third Person Omniscient would reveal everyone’s thoughts and feelings, and would be not as easy to understand. The reader could easily get mixed with other characters. This would not help us feel Rosaura’s feelings, and would feel what other characters thought and plotted.
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Instinctively, she pressed herself against herself against her mother’s body. That was all. Except her eyes. Rosaura’s eyes had a cold, clear look that fixed itself on Senora Ines’s face.”
It shows that only Third Person Limited can access these feelings for the readers. It made us feel what she felt, but not experiencing it. A third person omniscient POV would give away the ending halfway through the story, because we meet Senora Ines

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