Junot Díaz

“How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, and Halfie” by Junot Diaz is a guide for teenage boys in preparing for a date. It starts off with a confident narrator pretending to be sick to stay home because he doesn’t want to go to his aunt’s house with his mom. He convinces his mom to let him stay home and after his mom leaves, he clears the “government cheese” from the refrigerator which tells readers that his family is on welfare. He does things like taking embarrassing pictures down,…

“Drown” During different stages in their lives humans tend to go through a multitude of struggles that they sometimes are able to find a resolution at the end of them. In “Drown” by Junot Diaz, the narrator is dealing with his struggle of finding his identity .The narrator shows his inner struggle of finding his identity through expressing his experience about his detachment from this mother, his issues with his father and jealousy between him and his friend. This struggle is one that is common…

Novels are constantly evolving over time, yet despite time passing, some novels continue to represent women as sexualized objects. The female characters in Nella Larsen’s Passing, first published in 1929 but takes place in the 1920s, and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, published in 2007 but takes place from the 1940s to the 1990s, are subject to this representation because both novel’s narrators place an emphasis on physical features. Although both novels take place in…

On page one, Yunior confesses “She caught you with fifty! Sure, over a six-year period, but still. Fifty girls? Damn!” (Diaz 1). Yunior realizes, too late, that he has committed an egregious wrong against his beloved. He has cheated and lied so badly that even he in incredulous about his actions. Yunior can hardly believe the depths of his own horrible ways. Although the…

The white are unable to digest the reality that the people, who used to work for them and were dependent upon them for their livelihood, in the past, are now comparing and competing with them in the society. The two examples from Fields, B. J. and Díaz, J. can help us to see my idea more…

off of the theme of family and relationships and three disparate authors take us on a journey with their poetry and story to show us we can explore the same theme within completely independent stories. In the short story “The Money” written by Junot Diaz he gives a narrative…

themselves under the impression that society has impacted their lives so much that they have forgotten how to live their own everyday life. Based off of evidence from novels such as The Lover’s Dictionary by David Levithan, This is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz, and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn, this quote can be disagreed upon to believe that love is in existence in relationships and society does not…

The Cruel and Unusual Reign of Rafael Trujillo In reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz, one can observe the dictator present in the novel is a cruel, Iron-fisted ruler. This Dictator, Rafael Trujillo, was dictator of The Dominican Republic for over 30 years. From 1930 to 1961, the year of his assassination, Trujillo held a threatening presence throughout the country. Because of the many ways he would instill fear into the population, it is identifiable that Trujillo…

Sex Does Not Equate to a Relationship How to Date a Brown Girl, Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie (HDBG), by Junot Diaz is a satirical manual for teenage boys that advises how to behave around girls based on their ethnicity and the stereotypes that go along with it in order to successfully seduce them. Diaz uses the second person and an instructional tone to write HDBG to portray his experience and authority in dating girls of other ethnicities. The narrator, Yunior, creates his facade by…

languages and mesh them together, much like what it is for a person immigrating to the United States of America. He reduces strain between the two cultures by creating the use of Spanglish. Though many American readers argue they do not understand Diaz 's use of Spanglish or Spanish in the novel, it is clearly defined within the footnotes of the novel. The need of a non-immigrant reader to look at a footnote to understand and clarify words within a novel does, in fact, place the nonimmigrant in…