the stolen party theme assignment by Naomi Prince

in the short story ¨ The stolen party" by Lillian Heker, you read about a young girl who is realizing the effect of social classes. as you read you see her transition from being oblivious to the treatment but slowly she understands. for example, in the first paragraph; Rosauras mother argues with her about how the others will view her, “Ah yes, your friend,” her mother grumbled. She paused. “Listen, Rosaura,” she said at last. “That one’s not your friend. You know what you are to them? The maid’s daughter, that’s what.”

Rosaura blinked hard: she wasn’t going to cry. Then she yelled: “Shut up! You know nothing about being friends!”

then, later on while at the party she understands a little bit due to one little girl treating her a bit differently, “I’m a friend of Luciana,” said Rosaura.

“No,” said the girl with the bow, “you are not a friend of Luciana because I’m her cousin and I know all her friends. And I don’t know you.”

20 “So what,” said Rosaura. “I come here every afternoon with my mother and we do our homework together.

“You and your mother do your homework together?” asked the girl, laughing.

“I and Luciana do our homework together,” said Rosaura, very seriously.

The girl with the bow shrugged her shoulders.

“That’s not being friends,”
once the party is over, rosaura is expecting a goody bag like the other but instead of getting a gift bag Señora Ines hands Rosaura 2 bills and said she ¨ earned it¨

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