Theme Of Drown By Junot Diaz

In the book in Drown by Junot Diaz he wrote ten different stories and it focus on how immigrants from Dominican Republic travel to the United States to have a better opportunity for their family and most importantly achieving the American Dream. The time period of the story is during the 1980’s and it takes place in Santo Domingo. The protagonist Yunior who tells his a story about his family migrating to the United States and growing up with no father. Throughout the chapters we see flashpoints about the narrator childhood and adulthood. His father left him and his brother, Rafa, nine years ago because his father wanted a better future for them due to living in poverty. Ever since Yunior and Rafa haven’t seen their father. The abandoned of …show more content…
The narrator tells a story of his point of view on the struggle of not having a father figure in his life and the challenges he went through. As reading the book it was surprising that the narrator had ended the book by telling the story on his father journey on achieving the American dream. As in today many people from all over the world are in the same situation that the best way to improve their lives would be leaving their country so they can provide for their family and wanting a better future for their children. In the book there are some places that as reader we can identify for people wanting to achieve the American …show more content…
Also he was working long hour shifts in his job so it would make up what he had lost but he realize that the money he was earning it wasn’t enough and decides to go to New Jersey. Additionally, when Ramon was having a conversation to women that lives in the same building she was telling him about his friend and he realize what she said was right. On page 173 mention that “Eulalio wasn’t paying culo for rent. Which explained why he had so many fine clothes and didn’t work nearly as much as the rest.” (Diaz, 173). He feels that it’s not fair that other roommates who are working hard to contribute for paying rent and Eulalio who isn’t putting his effort on contributing money that’s not right. By losing his job Ramon believes that it’s best for him to leave and don’t make a conflict and believes that New York would open him doors so he could help his family. He mention that, “ Nueva York was the city of jobs, the city that had first called the Cubanos and their cigar industry, then the Bootstrap Puerto Ricans and now him”( Diaz ,167). He feels that leaving Miami to go New York it’s the best decision he could make and there would be opportunities for him. Along his journey he was determined to New Jersey and he mentions that he can’t afford another plane ticket. On page 174 he