The Dreamer Junot Diaz’s essay “The Dreamer” tells a great story about a woman with a strong will and unbreakable determination to change her life in spite of society’s stereotypes of woman and education. Diaz’s mom had to suffer because of her dream to gain an education, she went against her parents will and they punished her for it, since it was not normal for lower class woman to have an education but instead work in a farm as a mule “Your grandmother beat me almost every day,” my mother explained, “but I got my education”. This quote shows just how determined Diaz’s mother was to gain an education; she had to endure painful beatings every day for attending school but even they could not stop her from reaching her goal of an education.
