Blog Post III "The Stolen Party"

            Liliana Hecker is the author of the short story "The Stolen Party" a story about people dehumanizing others when they don't know anything about them. The story also talks about the problems of ascribed status and gender roles. The girl in the story is secretly described as a monkey because she is clueless to the fact that the other wealthy people at the party do not like her, and she is helping to do maid and cleaning work for the richer people. Her own mother refers to her as her pet and pays her $2 instead of giving her a toy basket because she knows that the girl needs the money more. The whole story the girl is "playing" with the other children but does not realize that the other children seem to avoid her since she never got caught in tag and "won" the sac race. A blond girl with pigtails (whose name is not said because she is rich and being rich makes her name irrelevant) questions the girl if she is truly one of Luciana's friends since she knows all her friends. 

"That one's not your friend. You know what you are to them? The maid's daughter. " 

This is a quote from Rosura's mother who knows that the rich girls are not her friends and she is just invited to the party to clean not to play.

Blog Post II "Danger of A Single Story"

          In the speech "Danger of A Single Story"  by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie the speaker talks about the effects of people who are not open to different views points of life and how if we are stuck with one story to describe something we begin to define people, races, and individuals without knowing their whole story and can stereotype them as poor, greedy, smelly, or anything else. 

"Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity." 

         This quote shows that stories are a double edge sword. Stories can be used to describe something but not knowing enough information, or getting all your stories from one source can lead you to stereotype people.

Blog Post I : "Girl"

The short story "girl" is about a mothers life advice to a growing daughter, and she warns the daughter about men and when to get rid of them if they can't treat her well, or support her. I believe the reason this author wrote this piece is to show female stereotypes in a group, and show that even though times are changing women are still doing these things. The author makes the tone of the text get stricter as the  story goes on, and this is to show how the girl progress's  from a child to woman. The mother in the story in the end teaches her daughter how to hook in a man she wants and get rid of them if she feels unhappy. " This is how to catch a fish, this is how to throw one back you don't like." The mother says 3 times to try and warn her daughter about not becoming a slut, but when at the end she says that she has already become one by following her mothers instructions. Her mother basically shows her how to maintain the reputation of a lady but in reality be a slut. The girl does not speak until the end  which makes the text feel like a lecture.

"this is how to catch a fish, this is how to throw one back you don't like."