Rosaura The Monkey

Growing up I was always poor, my mom was a maid and my dad was a teacher. My parents always told me that they are many people out there that are stereotypes and separate you by class. Even though I never really experienced it because everyone in my neighborhood is poor. Once I turned 13 my parents lost their home and we had to move in with my aunt that lived in the nicer part of Torrance. On the first day of school in my new neighborhood people asked me where I came from and I told them from Los Angeles and that I had lost my home. Many people started telling me stuff like, “Can you or your mom come clean my house?”. I didn’t see it in a bad way and actually said yes to them. My mom found out and told me that they were just using …show more content…
For instance, according to the text, “Rosaura wanted to make sure……. she saw it: deep in thought, inside its cage. It looked so funny that the girl stood there for a while, watching it, and later, every so often, she would slip out of the party unseen and go admire Navarrete 3 it” (Heker 2). This evidence reveals that Rosaura was probably just looking at herself in the mirror and saw herself, but others saw her as a monkey. The monkey in the story performed as the help at the party. The magician used the monkey to be the assistant. He intended to make it disappear, but couldn’t, like the upper class of society trying to get rid of the lower class. To sum it up, Rosaura was the monkey. In conclusion, you can change your appearance but not how people see your appearance because of the stereotypes of society. The theme that was shown in “The Stolen Party’ tells the audience that many people seem to trap and judge someone that is lower than them. For example, in current society Donald Trump is trying to get rid of Mexicans because he is racist and just wants white to rule the U.S. He wants all immigrants to be deported back to their