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Channell Williams Professor Blitshteyn February 27, 2013 This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz Nilda Junot Díaz expresses his feelings through his literary work, This is How You Lose Her. The reactions through the female characters he has describe in his life (fragment finish your thought. The reactions of who? In his life what?). Nilda is a promiscuous girl who was the main character’s brother’s girlfriend who represents a part of the main character’s life. Nilda represents how both men

“I usually make a fortune on Saturdays, selling to those kids going down to Belmar or out to Spruce Run.” (Drown). The narrator, Yunior, in the story Drown by Junot Diaz is a drug dealer and does not want anyone to recognize him so that he may uphold a positive image. Unlike Yunior in “Drown” the narrator in the poem What Work Is by Philip Levine depicts the struggles men and women face when trying to obtain honest work. “We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park, for

it is described when the narrator illustrates, “Grod and Grundy yanked him out of the car. And did Ybon fight to keep him in her arms? Did she protest the rude interruption to their making out? Of course not. Homegirl just passed right out again” (Diaz 294). Oscar is on his own because Ybon is unable to help him. Oscar was left to experience this form of both horizontal and vertical violence. The horizontal coming from the Capitán’s henchmen, and the vertical being the Capitán using his power to

Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz. The female characters of Junot Diaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar

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

Objectification: the action of degrading someone to the status of a mere object. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a novel on the adolescent years of a Dominican boy named Oscar De Leon [who later is referred to as Oscar Wao]. Adolescence are the years of massive change, physically and emotionally, which leads to new feelings of excitement. In Dominican culture, men have supremacy over women and the only way a woman can establish their authority and value is through their sexuality. In

affected after Porfirio diaz took control over mexico. The socioeconomic had fallen and had been divided. The mexican revolution was a significant event that was generated which led to many causes and had many effects. During the Mexican Many types of social, economic and political causes took role into the revolution. Social structures

Walking along the aisles of a local home improvement store or even farm, many would not think or even be aware of twine’s vast history in shaping the world around us. However, to a historian much is known about this commodity and its relation to the henequen-wheat complex as well as its effects on sustainability, economics, and society in both North America and Mexico as described in Sterling Evan’s novel, Bound in Twine. Not only did the henequen-wheat complex itself play a significant role in influencing

were living. At the political level, General Porfirio Diaz was re-elected in all pseudo elections that were presented in the country; there wasn't a democracy. At the social level there were two classes, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The peasants had no land for planting and were constantly victims of repression on the part of the landowners. The armed movement thrives as a result of the actions of the dictatorship of General Porfirio Diaz. The revolution had several leaders, both political

instance, Yunior tries to teach him how to lose weight, attract women and behave in social situations but, Oscar doesn’t seem to care. Ultimately, Oscar chooses to not listen to the advice his family gives him but then he realizes it is for his own good. Diaz gives the message to his readers that the essential aspect of life is that a person should listen to their heart, and accept who they are as a person.     Oscar was a handsome guy according to the author, he was a “preschool loverboy”. He was dating