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Foreshadowing In The Stolen Party

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Kylie Tumanut Mrs. Cook Pre-AP English - period 2nd March 16, 2023 Literary Analysis - The Stolen Party Essay Does your status in society determine your friendship? The short story “The Stolen Party” by Lilian Heker is about a nine year old named Rosaura who goes to her rich friend’s birthday party. Rosaura thought she and Luciana were friends, but at the end of the story, Rosaura finds out she was working for the party. Liliana Heker uses foreshadowing, symbolism, and imagery to express the theme of the innocence of a child and class system in society in The Stolen Party. First, the author uses foreshadowing. In line 19, it stated, “‘And you? Who are you?’ ‘I’m a friend of Luciana,’ said Rosaura. ‘No,’ said the girl with the bow, ‘you …show more content…

In the text, it states, “He could guess what cards were pulled out from a pack, and the monkey was his assistant. He called the monkey ‘partner’ ‘Let’s see here, partner,’ he would say, ‘Turn over a card.’ And, ‘Don’t run away, partner: time to work now.’… “She was so pleased with the compliment that a while later, when her mother came to fetch her, that was the first thing she told her. ‘I helped the magician and he said to me, ‘Thank you very much, my little countess’” (Hecker 40). The quote uses symbolism because it shows that Rosaura was represented as the monkey of the party. The literary device is built to the theme of the innocence of a child because Rosaura, not knowing she was working at Luciana’s birthday party, was not attending the party as a friend. A second piece of evidence is another symbolism. In line 38, it stated, “Senora Ines had asked her to help pass the cake around, and Rosaura had enjoyed the task immensely, because everyone called out to her, shouting ‘Me, me!’ Rosaura remembered a story in which there was a queen who had the power of life or death over her subjects'” (Hecker 38). This quote counts as symbolism because when she had helped Senora Ines pass the cake, she had thought she had power. The literary device builds the theme by Rosaura not knowing she was working by doing the birthday

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