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Pam Munoz Ryan's Short Story 'The Party'

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In the short story The Party by Pam Munoz Ryan, there was a conflict and a theme that occurred. A girl wants to be invited to Bridget’s party, but she doesn’t get an invite while everyone she knows does. She goes throughout the day doubting herself on why she didn’t get invited. The gist of the story is this. According to Pam Munoz Ryan, a girl gets to school one morning to find out that she doesn’t get invited to the popular kid’s, Bridget, party. All the people in her friend group are going, but she is the only one excluded. Her friends try to make it less awkward with her, but she ignores them and begins to doubt her appearance and how that might be the reason that she wasn’t invited. She begins her classes and get’s more and more anxious

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