Junot Díaz

Written by Junot Diaz, "How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)" at first glance seems like a controversial story about how to date girls of different races. The narrator explicitly and vividly explains the dos and don’ts of how to become intimate with a girl depending on if the girl is Black, Brown, White, or Mixed. Nonetheless, the story conveys so much more and touches on many topics and situations involving what society deems as ideal and the stereotypes of different…

themselves and their sense of purpose. In “How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)” written by Junot Diaz, Diaz suggests that this theory fails to consider how as individuals age and gain social experience, they really lose their identity through exposure of societal beliefs as opposed to finding it. The story suggests that society strips individuals of their identity…

According to Wikipedia “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl or Halfie” is a satirical (sarcastic) short story by Junot Diaz. The story takes a guise (appearance) of an instructional manual, that’s appearing to give advice as of how to act and also behave depending your racial group and lastly social class of whoever is reading the story’s date. A dating guide given by Diaz for the Dominican American male in his teens, takes on the authority of trial and error by employing a narrator…

using knowledge. The narrative starts were the main character, Diaz states that mothers do not believe their sons but all the same leave them at home. Young men are often miss lead by television and music. They tend to have the assumption that image and outward appearance gives you a better chance of getting the girl. Diaz hides specific things such as old family photos and smelly clothes in order to adapt to the female species. Diaz expresses how girls from different races tend to respond…

Throughout his storytelling, Junot Díaz conflates magical realist fantasy with the factual truth of Dominican history to dismantle the dichotomy between imagination and reason. He shows the reader that racial categories are affirmed and maintained through hateful colonial fantasies by blurring the lines between fact and fiction in the novel. His use of historical moments demonstrates how the characters live in a lingering framework of coloniality—that which is sustained by our inability to…

and various forms of writing, Díaz not only attempts to construct an alternative identity and history for the silenced “páginas en blanco”, but also attempts to invent a historical coherence for the world. Through a commentary mode of writing, Díaz establishes a voice, not only for an American consciousness, but also for a Dominican-American engagement with an American consciousness. For those of us “who missed [our] mandatory two seconds of Dominican history”, Díaz engages with various…

The novel “This Is How You Lose Her” by Junot Diaz is a novel about relationships. The story follow the main character, Yunior, a plain Dominican man living in the suburban area and his relationships with women. The novel also tells the story of Yunior’s father and brother and their relationship with women. Yunior speaks both Spanish and English, and usually speaks with a Spanish slang. Yunior, in the novel, is popular with the women, and Yunior make use of this to sleep with countless women.…

• Why has Junot Diaz deliberately decided to use the n-word with an -er ending instead of using a –ga ending thought-out the book no matter the situation? • What emotion arises when Junot Diaz uses the n-word? What does it provoke? The book “ this is how you lose her” by Junot Diaz may raise a lot of eye-balls due to some of the language that is being said, but what may raise the most controversy is the use of the n-word. The n-word has been one of the more controversial words in American…

The author I decided to investigate further was Junot Diaz. Junot Diaz is an interesting author, who I feel like writes about the daily lives of Dominicans, that not only Dominicans can relate to, but people of other ethnicities. Diaz’s work interests me mostly because of the way he tells it. I feel that his stories could be happening all around you, which uniquely goes to show the life like feel his works have in which it envelopes the reader into a scenario where they can place themselves…

perseverance is when Junot Diaz -as stated in his essay Becoming a Writer – was writing his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. It took him more than a decade to complete, but he refused to throw it all away and give up. He continued to write, even if his writing wasn’t good enough to publish, in hopes that he would come up with something better. Eventually he did, approximately 11 years later Junot was finally able to say “done”. Although success seemed far off for Diaz, his…