Jared Ramos 806                                   ‘The Stolen Party”                       1/14/14

The stolen party is a story about a girl Rosaura being used by Senora Ines.

Senora Ines is a wealthy woman who has a maid, and the maid has a daughter whose name is Rosaura. Rosaura had been invited to a party by senora Ines’s daughter Lucia, but at this party Rosaura had been helping Senora Ines as if she was an employee or a worker working for Senora Ines like her mother does. I wanted to focus on how Senora Ines was using Rosaura and how at the end of the story she was talking down to them, because she was a higher class in wealth. 

In the story "The Stolen Party," my group had studied closely on things that could have impacted the character and us as readers. While I was studying the text close I stumbled across a sentence that really just impacted me as a reader. The Senora Ines had said after Rosaura had finished she said, "thank you for your help my PET." That really made me think of many things that she could've meant by that, I thought she was talking down to her , talking to her as if she was her servant. This impacted me because it made me feel that people have to work for wealthy people not because they want to because they need to feed there family, and the way wealthy people would take advantage of people and kids, is just horrible. Another thing me and my group focused on was the ending. In the ending the author left us readers of thinking about Rosaura and her mother, how Senora Inez gave her two envelopes with money meanwhile the other kids got gifts like Yoyos and bracelets. This made us think about how she felt getting paid for working at the party and I thought that she probably was crushed to be paid and to be used at the age of ten, to be working and doing what her mother does but not knowing that at the time till Senora Ines gives her money.

In The Stolen Party I felt there was a lot of controversy about whether or not this story was about wealth and the different classes of earnings. But I felt that it was about the different classes because of the way Senora Ines had been treating Rosaura. She Had been treating her like her pet or servant making her work. And that was actually the only reason I think Senora Ines's mother invited her, it was to make her work and do the cleaning and helping of the party. So as a result I understand my concept and position I am taking and I think you would to.