The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Oscar Wao: Hero or Fool? Does following the heart always make someone heroic? The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz is a peak into the life of a Dominican boy named Oscar, who followed his heart all the time. He struggled to meet society’s expectations of how masculine he should have been and ended up being viewed as sensitive and weak. He went through a lot of problems and made many difficult decisions.

At first I believed that the “fly tracks across the page” (Allende, 2), were significant because she learns that they are words on a newspaper. This alters the course of her life because she no longer is doomed to become a prostitute or a servant. This one conversation changes the remainder of her life. During the class discussion everyone agreed that the “fly tracks across the page” (Allende, 2), are words on newspaper and that it saved her from a life as a prostitute or a servant (Sept, 20). Many individuals agreed that this gives her the power of language and a future which alters the remainder of the story allowing future events to take place (Class discussion, Sept 20). Many peers pointed out that this moment changed Belisa's life, giving

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First of all, the setting of this novel contributes to the Rivera family’s overall perception of what it means to be an American. To start this off, the author chooses a small American city where groups of Latino immigrants with their own language and traditions, lived together in the same apartment building. All these immigrants experienced similar problems since they moved from their countries. For example, in the novel after every other chapter the author

Being abused as a child and nobody wanting her because of her skin color and loosing her parents and siblings in murder, and yet she didn’t do anything to deserve this. As teen years met Belicia she gained the privilege to make decisions for her self. Until then she suffers the fukú from her own actions. Moving through the generation fukú strikes Belicia’s son Oscar after he made the decision to break one girl’s heart because he was dating two girls contemporaneously. In return he got his heart broken by the girl he chose to stay with and then everything went downhill for Oscar. Gaining weight, and casting every one away Oscar lost his popularity and became a pathetic nobody with suicidal thoughts. "Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic who dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkein and, most of all, of finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the....curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, following them on their epic journey from the Dominican Republic to the United States and back again."

Throughout Junot Diaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the Man Without a Face is a recurring character with no evident features. All of his scenes include an event in which he is either a mysterious spectator watching the distress around himself or joins in on the torture. His appearances throughout the story are suggestive of evil or violent incidents that are about to occur. More times than not, the acts are performed by Trujillo 's men. Almost consistently, he emerges whenever one of the main characters is in great discord. The faceless man symbolizes the foreshadowing of malicious occurrences caused by Fukú.

Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, set in the late 1900’s, tells a story of Oscar Wao, an overweight Dominican “ghetto nerd”, his mother and rebellious sister who live together in Paterson, New Jersey. Throughout the novel Diaz incorporates many different stories about each character that show acts of resistance. One of the most prominent stories of resistance in the novel is through Oscar’s mom; Beli, who is prompted by great tragedy, known as the Trujillo curse, to love atomically and thus follows a dangerous path. Beli’s family history plays a large role in her choices that eventually compel her into a different life than what her adopted mother, La Inca, had wanted for her.

Belicia’s encounters with love and violence went very differently compared to her fathers. Belicia was blinded by love for the Gangster, much how Oscar was when he fell in love with Ana, Jenni and Ybon. She got herself into serious trouble when it was revealed she was the lover of Trujillo’s sister’s husband. Once Trujillo’s sister figured it out she made Belicia abort the baby but that was only after she got beat so bad she was concussed for a couple days. Beli was also beaten in cane fields as was her son which could be a foreshadowing that the curse with the help of love and violence will lead future family members to danger as well. La Inca had said, “How she survived I’ll never know. They beat her like she was a slave. Like she was a dog” (147). Beli’s beat down signifies the first out of many violent occasions trying to rush love. Still after receiving this cruel and sickening beating she still longed for her Gangster and wanted to be with him again immediately. Belicia like Oscar was greatly blinded by her love for the Gangster that no amount of danger could stand in her way to get to him. But after a while she felt something that Oscar could seem to understand and that was that she was getting ignored and was not going to be accepted by the

Benedick, a strong willed man, is tough as nails. His journey as a hardened soldier under the leadership of Don Pedro has sprung forth a cunning and sarcastic attitude. He is against anything that has to do with love, as he believes love will turn a man soft, and he would never want such a thing to happen to him. He swears on the fact that he will never be wed or even fall for a woman. Yet he asks himself this story altering, climax of a question “May I be so converted and see with these eyes?” (2.3. 19 20). After this, we can start to see deep down who he really is, and that he may be capable of love after all. What happens with Benedick? Does he really have it in him to stay away from women, even one who is

This essay was very successful in giving insight of what families in beyond low income communities go through on a daily basis. His fight against poverty is very real and that gave him the ability to connect to his essay emotionally. With all the Parks witnessed, he strives to let his own governments see that there should be more people helping these other countries or even within his own country. Doing what he could for one person made a big difference in Flavio and his family’s life. He was bale to get him out of the are he was in and into a different class that would potentially save their

For the sake of a better cause, people give up to some degree substantial feelings or belongings in life. In the novel, Bodega Dreams, by Ernesto Quinonez, characters sacrifice their most precious beloved things to succeed in East Harlem. The Puerto Rican community of East Harlem in New York City expresses how immigrants deal with their hardships to keep the white supremacy out of their community. The protagonist, Julio (a.k.a Chino), gives his point of view as he deals with his relationship and contributing to the community’s drug company led by William Bodega. Throughout the novel, Sacrifice is represented in the developments of love, business, and culture in the East Harlem community.

The ending of a novel can be evaluated by the reader in several different ways, however to properly analyze the work is to further explore the logic of how everything has come to be. The ability of the author to show the reader that the ending is reasonable from the preceding action and the character’s nature is what should truly be examined. Not only is the ending of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz both happy and unhappy, it is logical in the sense that it follows logically from the climax of the novel all while the character’s have been constant throughout, except Oscar. Oscar, the protagonist experiences a life-changing transformation that leads to his untimely death. However, the ending is convincing because of this

Junot Diaz a bilingual writer plays with language and culture to develop a story that he believes represents Dominican Republic. Oscar Wao an opponent of everything that we can find in a typical Dominican Macho finds love and death in the country where everything started. Amor is a word that is used only a couple of times in the novel but has a great meaning behind that develops to the curse itself and a series of unfortunate events.

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