Rosaura The Stolen Party

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In “The Stolen Party”, the author gives depth and essence to the story by creating a comparison between the monkey and Rosaura.They both are naive and innocent characters. This is best shown when Luciana gives her birthday invitation to Rosaura, but her gullible nature fails to recognize her true intentions for the invitation. The author uses the monkey as a symbol to emphasize Rosaura's social gap at the party as both Rosaura and the monkey are used for the same purposes. When Rosaura first encounters the monkey it is “inside its cage” creating a visible barrier between the monkey and the magician which the it can not break through; all the monkey can do is obey orders of the magician. In like manner, Rosaura is the “maid’s daughter,” who

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