Junot Diaz Short Story

The short story starts off with Julian’s mother being told she must lose twenty pounds due to her blood pressure. She goes to a reduced class every week and drags him along. Julian seems annoyed with his mom and the wisdom she tries to advise. Their relationship is like an ordinary son and mother relationship. A mother who has raised her son to as superior as his great-grandfather, and she doesn't mind bragging about it either. Julian and his mother don't see eye to eye when it comes to the world evolution. Julian believes in the better-fixed world, where blacks are considered people, but his mother feels like the world is a mess and should go back to times when slavery was more efficient. Julian does not bother to try and make his mother understand times are different and growth from …show more content…
As Julian was ready for the day to be over, his mother had a difficult time deciding if she wants to wear an ugly hat, that she was told only looked good on her. His patience had hit the bottom as he aggressively told his mother the hat looked great to get the day started. She’d given up and decided to keep the hat on and that she would not see it because she’d never see herself coming and going. The two got on the bus and it was not one negro in sight, which pleased Julian’s mother and the other white women. They talked about the negros as trouble people, which in fact annoyed Julian. As the bus reaches a stop and black man gets on and the women are disgusted, but Julian found it to be a great way to teach his blind mother a lesson. Julian intents were to make his mother understand the world has changed blacks are not worthless. Julian sits with the black man but finds no luck in setting an example for his mother. A black large lady with the same hat as his mother with her son gets on the bus and Julian finds this as a perfect example for his mom. It was gold Julian thought but his mother seems to be distracted by a little negro child that she thought was as cute and a white