The Stolen Party By Liliana Hecker Analysis
“Respect other people’s feelings and beliefs. Even if it doesn’t mean anything to you, it could mean everything to them”-unknown. Prejudicial stereotypes have and will be seen in our society, for example, in the U.S society, due to all the terrorist attacks around the world, people automatically make prejudicial assumptions that all Muslims are “terrorists”. These stereotypes can legitimately hurt one’s feelings of their racial background and ethnicity. These events seen everyday itches the mind of the individual about actions seen, yet unspoken in everyday surroundings. This poses the question: what are you, as an individual, in this discrimination-filled society doing to force an end to this commonly seen social conflict? Many people do not
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Throughout the short story, the protagonist, Rosaura, is invited to Senora Ines’ daughter, Luciana’s party. There Rosaura helps allocate resources from the party such as food, drinks, and required items. Towards the end of the short story, there is sharp turn when the concept of Rosaura being a servant other than a guest is casted to the reader, which causes incertitude between the two ethnic communities. To illustrate, in the short story it states “ ‘So where do you know her from?’ said the girl, getting impatient. Rosaura remembered her mother’s words perfectly. She took a deep breath. ‘I’m the daughter of the employee,’ she said. Her mother had said very clearly: ‘If someone asks, you say you’re the daughter of the employee that’s all...And proud of it’ ” (2). This piece of evidence portrays an intense conversation between a friend of Luciana’s with Rosaura, which illustrates the fact that since Rosaura is the daughter of the employee, that creates an invisible barrier between the two characters which can lead to an argument between the two ethnic communities which is also seen in our everyday surroundings such as the simple fact that there is constant turbulence between the Hispanic and American communities. Thus, this piece of evidence connects back to the claim that racial discrimination is the major source of mayhem between different cliques by conveying the issues between social
Throughout the short story, the protagonist, Rosaura, is invited to Senora Ines’ daughter, Luciana’s party. There Rosaura helps allocate resources from the party such as food, drinks, and required items. Towards the end of the short story, there is sharp turn when the concept of Rosaura being a servant other than a guest is casted to the reader, which causes incertitude between the two ethnic communities. To illustrate, in the short story it states “ ‘So where do you know her from?’ said the girl, getting impatient. Rosaura remembered her mother’s words perfectly. She took a deep breath. ‘I’m the daughter of the employee,’ she said. Her mother had said very clearly: ‘If someone asks, you say you’re the daughter of the employee that’s all...And proud of it’ ” (2). This piece of evidence portrays an intense conversation between a friend of Luciana’s with Rosaura, which illustrates the fact that since Rosaura is the daughter of the employee, that creates an invisible barrier between the two characters which can lead to an argument between the two ethnic communities which is also seen in our everyday surroundings such as the simple fact that there is constant turbulence between the Hispanic and American communities. Thus, this piece of evidence connects back to the claim that racial discrimination is the major source of mayhem between different cliques by conveying the issues between social