In this section, I noticed that the mongoose reappeared in the scene where Oscar tries to commit suicide: “Later, when he would describe it, he would call it the Golden Mongoose…” (Díaz 190). It first appeared when Beli was trying to escape from the fields and it was said that the mongoose had saved her: “...only then did Beli understand that she was saved” (Díaz 151). Oscar saw the mongoose right before he was going to jump, and even though he still jumped, he landed on the a garden divider instead of a cement one. Could the mongoose have been what saved him from dying, just like it was what had saved Beli? Is the mongoose the opposite of the fukú? I really enjoyed this section of the reading because we were introduced to the narrator,
