Analysis Of The Stolen Party By Liliana Heker

It is very easy for someone to judge someone else by what they look like or who their family is, but everyone is different and deserves a chance. In the short story “The Stolen Party”, by Liliana Heker it is clear that you you should not judge a “book” by it's cover just because someone's mom is a maid to your family. That does not mean that that someone is your maid to and does not also mean that you can pay that one person for “helping” out during a party. While someone could argue that the theme might be friends can be deceiving, but for most of the story the author focuses more on Rosaura “helping out” and less on her “friends”. Throughout the story the main theme is clearly ‘Dont Judge a Book by it's Cover’.

During the story the rich

family treats Rosaura as a maid and has her do things for them. For example they have Rosaura “help” by serving everyone drinks, cut and serve the cake, and serve the hot dogs to all the kids and parents during the party. This shows that they are making Rosaura do things for them and are treated here as a servant or maid. When Rosaura is doing the things they ask her to do she does it but, she simply is doing it because she thinks she is being nice. All while she is being treated as a maid. For example the family “asks” her to get juice and serve it to everyone, she does it because she thinks that they chose her because she knows the way around the house, but all the other friends should know where the kitchen his. This all shows that the family is turning Rosaura into their maid, and doing this without Rosaura knowing this, they have judge her by her cover.

While some might argue that the theme of the story is that “Friends can be deceiving” they forgot that the text focuses more on her doing chores and less on Rosaura's friend. During the text there are barely any moments where the author mentions her playing or talking with her friends. But the author does mention rosaura “Helping out”. For example on Pg. 4 Par. 2, the family has rosaura pass out the cake and all the kids were saying “Me , Me, No Me” to rosaura. Which shows that the kids and family Judge her by her cover.

At the end of the story the rich family pays rosaura for “helping” at the party and calls her there little pet. One example of her being called a pet is on Pg. 6 Par. 5, The rich family tells rosaura “You really earned this, thank you my little pet.” That proves that the family wanted to have her do all of those things for them. Also the family pays rosaura for “helping” at the party. This is important because the family actually pays her, and then Rosaura finally realized that she was doing all these things for them. This all shows that they judged her by her cover.

It has been very clear that “Dont judge a book by its cover is the theme. Some reasons why have been the family treats her as a maid. They payed her for “helping” out, and they called her their little pet. Even though some people argued that there was a different theme, but the theme is clearly “Don’t judge a book by its cover”. Overall it is easy to say that the theme is “Don't judge a book by its cover”, that everyone is there own person.