Lilian Heker’s “The Stolen Party” is about a nine-year-old girl named Rosaura who goes to a rich girl’s party. This takes place at a rich girl’s house where her mother works as a maid. Rosaura thinks she is Luciana’s friend but at the end finds out that they could never be friends because of social class difference. The monkey and the magician represent the same kind of relationship between Rosaura and …showed first 75 words of 597 total…

…showed last 75 words of 597 total…this story it does not seem like anything is really going on, if you read it a second time you begin to see the hidden meanings behind the party and what symbolism was used. If she had not used those elements to explain her feelings it would have made for a very boring story. Works Cited Heker, Lilian “The Stolen Party.” Literature for Composition 4th ed. Ed Sylvan Barnet et al. New York: HarperCollins, 1996 613-616