Summary Of Junot Diaz's Drown?

Junot Diaz, in his book “Drown” explores the struggle of Dominican Republic immigrants in the United States to achieve the American Dream. Each story is related, but is separate vignette, each with its own title. The novel does not follow a traditional story arc but rather each story captures a moment in time. Drown is narrated by and educated adult and set mostly in the 1980s with much of the narrative occurring in the narrators childhood. In this essay I will talk about how the immigrant life is portrayed and how money is a driving force between this families.
In “Drown” Yunior the narrator of the story is explaining the story of his family immigration to the United Sates from the Dominican Republic. It all begin when Rafa and Yunior are …show more content…
While Yuniors dad is in the Unites Sates working to get his family money and stability he meets another women which he marries and lives with her for many years. They have a baby and he wins citizenship by marrying her. Here we see that both money and immigration is a driven force. Yuniors dad has the wrong intentions of working in the United States. At no point is he thinking of his family while he is living with Nilda. But as time pass he remembers his family and tells Nilda that he is going to return to his family. Of course she isn’t content with what he is saying but he comes back home to his family. When he arrives his family isn’t the first people he goes to see. He prefers to have a drink with his friends first before going to see his family. He is afraid he might not be welcomed in that house hold. “In the end he never visited us. Mami herd from her friend that he was in the city with his other wife, but she never told us about it” (Diaz) Yunior explained. He said it took his father a couple days to come visit them and when he did it felt like he was out of place being there. No one saw him as a father figure since he had been gone for such a long time and since he had married another women. Here we see that yunior dad has only been thinking of himself. Even though he is a hardworking man he still can’t get stability for him or his family. After he arrives he hears from a friend that they are offering a new apartment …show more content…
We see how money is always the most important in a household and your only way to gain it is to follow the American dream and coming to the United States. In this story we see how the dream is there but it is accomplished in a different way. Yuniors dad abandons them for the first time in Dominican Republic and he does it again in America. He gains money and stability but that isn’t enough because he leaves his family once