Broken Dreams at a Stolen PartyIn the story "Stolen Party" written by Liliana Heker, a young girl's dreams are shattered by the bitter reality of his destiny. Rosaura spends most of her time trying to convince her mother, as well as everyone at the birthday party, that being an educated girl makes her an equal to everyone at the party. She feels a great determination to fit into her friend Luciana's lifestyle, even if it would mean rebelling against her mother's wishes. Rosaura almost believes she has accomplished this feat until she is harshly brought back to reality and confronted again with her position in life. It will be an impossible struggle to overcome the class status she was born into with the many factors against her. When Rosaura's mother can tell her starry-eyed daughter, full of hope and innocence, "The trouble with you, young lady, is that you like to fart higher than your ass" (Heker 1133), this creates bitterness between them and harms the idea of ​​Rosaura improving. The mother does not want Rosaura to go to the "party of the rich", perhaps out of fear that her daughter will experience the coldness of the upper class, or perhaps out of fear that Rosaura might really succeed and leave the mother behind. The fact that this mother can have this incredibly mature conversation with her daughter "barely nine years old" and that Rosaura can tell her mother "the rich go to heaven too" indicates the girl's maturity as well as her level of intelligence. which was already higher than that of his mother. Rosaura continues to tell her mother what a friend is. However, despite her best efforts to make her mother understand, her mother continues to throw negative thoughts and opinions at her. The next obstacle Rosaura faces is at the party. She is confronted with a “high class” young girl who is the cousin of her friend Luciana. After many questions about who Rosaura was, the young girl replies: “you are not a friend of Luciana because I am her cousin and I know all her friends” (1135). Rosaura maintained her stance despite the multitude of questions asked of her. It was only when the question of how she was Luciana's friend was raised that Rosaura began to be defeated by her social class. Rosaura recited the phrase “my mother is an employee,” a face-saving but still telling statement that had been drilled into her. (1135).