Through the eye of a child, we know some things are seen differently as one thing, and different as another. Liliana Hecker shows events of one thing seen differently, symbolising false hope from different turn of events from the short story The Stolen Party. Hecker focuses deeply on metaphors, dialogue, and symbolism to show the false hope through the friendship Rosaura deeply needed, but could not grasp onto. ‘It’s a rich people’s party,’ was what Rosaura’s mother told her the night before the party. It was what she tried to warn her daughter, saying she was nothing but the ‘maid’s daughter’ in the eyes of a friend, Luciana. But Rosaura grasped onto that false sense of hope, going to the party the next day. Throughout the story, …show more content…
It was the thing that introduces readers to the climax, and the sense of false hope that spreads like wildfire. Hecker uses the party so symbolise that false hope when Rosaura first entered the party, and when she left. The story started off with mixed signals. Before the party, Rosaura saw herself as a friend to Luciana, in which she believed for awhile until things started shifting. She still grasped onto that hope like a rope and she was above a cliff, but she doesn’t realise she would soon fall. When she poured orange juice for the kids or served cake for them, those examples were treated as a slave, not a friend. By the end of the party, Rosaura finally saw through that false hope when she found out she was nothing but a ‘pet’. The party shows the relation between the two, Luciana and Rosaura, and the lead up of eventual concepts that soon got shattered. In the short story The Stolen Party by Liliana Hecker, a young girl found herself tied up in the false hope that she was something more, other than the maid’s daughter. This was cut off by the constant reminders that she was, in fact, nothing more and nothing less, losing that small sense of hope she once