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Prejudice is a common thing in the world. If a person isn't a like the rest of the world, they will be look down upon or taken advantage of. Class status, social gaps, stereotypes are all common things in the world. The Stolen Party is revolved around those prejudices. It's even more about innocence and purity of a little kid's mind. The main symbols of the story are the monkey's and magicians relationship as well as the party in comparision to society. Both the magician and Senior Ines are taking advantage of monkey and Rosaura.
Kidsds have such innocence and purity, they don't know that the world is a bad place and that people are cruel. When Rosaura first told her mother of the party, she says “I don't like you going. It's a rich people's party” (Heker 403). Rosaura fought for the right to go because in her mind, she was invited and she believes they are friends. Her mother doesn't agree to that though, because according to her, their money problems are standing in the way of them being friends, to Luciana, she'll always be the maid's daughter. She hasn't realized that your reputation and like-ability is all based on if you have money or not. She has never experienced prejudice and has no experience that not everyone will like her due to the whole money issue.
When Rosaura first arrived to the party, Luciana told her that the monkey was in the kitchen, so don't tell anyone because it's a suprise. Senor Ines only let her into the kitchen because “they're much too boisterous, they might break something” (Heker 404). But in reality, she was never technically apart of the party so it would never really ruin the suprise. When the magician and monkey perform their act that's when Heker starts to show how the magician is taking...
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...hadows his relationship with the girl. The girl is probably apart of the high class end of the society whereas he is poor. There will always be a social gap so their “relationship” would never work. That's why the boy in the story left the bazaar in anger, he realized that it would never work due to their social gaps.
The Stolen Party is a great example of showing us how the world truly is. Society is just a messed up place where people try to make themselves feel better by pushing down on others. Social gaps and prejudices will always be evident in the world, there's no stopping them. It's like trying to stop someone from eating junk food; there is junk food everywhere so their goals will always be tainted by the lust for junk food.
Works Cited
Heker, Liliana. “The Stolen Party.” Exploring Literature. Ed. Frank Madden. New York: Longman, 2009. 403-407. Print.
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Meyer, Michael. The Bedford Introduction to Literature. Ed. 8th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. 2189.
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Lipking, Lawrence I, Stephen Greenblatt, and M H. Abrams. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume 1c. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2006. Print.
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