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.