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The Stolen Party By Liliana Heker
In a story where people act differently and have “friends” but they all only see you as the maid's daughter, the story of “The Stolen Party” written by Liliana Heker, there are a lot of themes, but one important theme was “People are nice to you while others are around but when you're alone they aint so nice anymore.” In the story of “The Stolen Party” written by Liliana Heker, it is about a young girl named Rosaura thinking the rich people are her friends because they act nice to her but This is a story with a turn of events at the end. In the story of “The Stolen Party” by Liliana Heker, there may be many themes but there's one important theme and it is “People are nice to you while others are around but when you're alone they aint so nice anymore.” One piece of evidence to support this theme is “I’m going because I’ve been invited,” she said. …show more content…
So there.” Rosaura thinks that Luciana is her friend because she invites her but here is another piece of evidence to prove my point that why Rosaura thinks their friend is, “Every afternoon she used to go to Luciana’s house and they would both finish their homework while Rosaura's mother did the cleaning.” This shows that they USED to do things together. Rosaura thinks rich people are her friends because she used to hang out with them and then after she was done Senora Ines acted so differently at the end from the beginning which weirded Rosaura and the way she acted. One piece of evidence is that “Seora Ines didn’t look in the pink bag”. Nor did she look in the blue

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