Symbolism In The Stolen Party By Liliana Heker

The Stolen Party Craft Essay The short story, The Stolen Party, by Liliana Heker is about a young girl, Rosaura, and her mother who is a maid for a rich family. Rosaura innocently believes she is the best of friends with the daughter in the rich family, Luciana. Rosaura thinks she is invited to a birthday party at Luciana’s house, while she is really there to help serve. These two families are separated by class, just because Rosaura is the maid’s daughter, she is seen differently and not accepted as she should be. Heker’s craft moves in the story leave little hints to help the reader, and Rosaura, realize that she is not where she belongs. In this short story, the author uses symbolism to show the overall conflict in the story, she sets the …show more content…
Liliana Heker also helps the reader know and interpret more that the main character does, so they can be ahead of the main character, yet in suspense. Heker helps everything later in the story fall into place by setting the tone and helping the reader understand what Rosaura and Luciana’s friendship is really like. A strain is shows in Rosaura and her mother’s relationship with build empathy and helps the reader be more involved and relate to the characters better. The author uses the monkey that the magician brought to symbolize Rosaura’s friendship and that the rich girls were never her true “friends”. In the end, Heker uses symbolism, and sets the correct tone for the story, which builds empathy because the reader knows and interprets the hints better than the character, which also builds suspense. The overall message of the story shows that we live in a world that is separated based on class, wealth and race. Rosaura and Luciana’s family come from two different worlds, but Rosaura doesn’t see it that way, she was having the time of her life at that party and she was oblivious to anything that made them “different”. Simply because she is the maid’s daughter, she is treated differently in the