Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao begins with the narrator's description of the curse, called “fukú, a curse of doom.” It was brought over to the islands of Antilles when the Europeans came, and has stayed ever since. The narrator informs us and claims that the late dictator, Trujillo, has a close connection with fukú. The narrator also informs the reader that he will be telling us the story of Oscar de Léon, who was the victim of his family’s fukú. Oscar, the character around whom this novel revolves, is a "ghetto nerd" from a family of immigrants from the Dominican Republic. The background of the story takes place in the Dominican Republic under the fearsome dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, a man who imprisoned, tortured,
