The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao Essay

“Men are not indispensable. But Trujillo is irreplaceable. For Trujillo is not a man. His is…a cosmic force…Those who try to compare him to his ordinary contemporaries are mistaken. He belongs to…the category of those born to a special destiny“(5,204).The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a dictatorial novel that demonstrates the effects of the famous dictator, Trujillo. Readers enter into the frightening life of a Dominican family through the darkest areas of a country under dictatorial control of Trujillo. Our narrator even blames John F. Kennedy's assassination on Trujillo. The latter was raping women such as his comrades' wives and their daughters and this sense of violent is considered a masculine definition throughout the novel ; while it works as a person under a dictatorship to comply to the norms applied, it does not work for Oscar de Leon, who is one of the main characters of the story not under a dictatorship, yet still has to comply to the presence or even absence of the dictator. Oscar de Leon is a 245 pounds young guy, has no ear for music, can hardly dance, loves comic books and fantasy novels. As Yunior (the author) says: Dude wore his nerdiness like a Jedi wore his light saber or a …show more content…
Oscar is the character that undergoes the most number of conflicts of Fuku and Zafa. The characters believe Trujillo is the stem of the curse; however, without the curse, all events would be different. For example, if Oscar had died when he tried to commit suicide, he would never lose his virginity. Despite all of the suffering, Díaz confirms that love won over hatred via the letter. Oscar finally gained the "little intimacies" of life. Overall, the characters allow Fuku to control their lives, but as long as Fuku is present, so is Zafa ( mangoose who La Inca describes as