Character Analysis: The Stolen Party

The Stolen Party”

In “The Stolen Party”, author Liliana Heker uses third person limited point of view to only tell the reader how Rosaura feels. In the book It only allows the reader to know how Rosaura feels, not anybody else and that creates suspense.

One reason for using using the third person limited point of view is to hide how everybody feels about Rosaura. It hides how the Luciana and her friends think of Rosaura and her coming to the birthday party.

For example, in “The Stolen Party”, Luciana’s cousin did not know Rosaura. In the text Luciana’s cousin says “you are not a friend of Luciana because I am her cousin and I know all her friends. And I don’t know you”. When Rosaura mentions her and Luciana doing homework together

Also that she did not feel the need to tell her because she was not very important.

Another reason for using the third person point of view is to especially create a surprise at the end of the story. With the third person limited it only tells you how Rosaura feels not Senora Ines. So with this perspective it masks the true reason of why Rosaura was invited to the party. Rosaura thinks she has been invited because she is Luciana’s friend, but in the end Rosaura finds the true reason of why she was invited.

For example, in “The Stolen Party”, Rosaura says “I am going because I have been invited”, “And I have been invited because Luciana is my friend”. In the story Senora Ines tells Rosaura that only she is allowed in the kitchen because the others are too boisterous, and Rosaura believes her. Another example is that in the end Senora Ines did not give Rosaura a present instead she gave her money and the Rosaura realizes that she was invited not as a friend, but as a maid.

These examples show that Rosaura thinks she was invited as a friend of Luciana’s just like everybody else. But it turns out that in the end she was just invited to help out with the