Junot Díaz

The Profiriato (1876-1911), Mexico was in debt due to the war that went for years. No foreign countries invested in Mexico. Profiriato Diaz had to attract foreign investors by the advancememt in technology, transportation, and labor systems. Many upper elites and middle-class citizens benefited, but the Mexican lower classes suffered. Reform laws were established which benefited the elites and companies. Upper-class elites expropriated the Mexican lower-class lands that led them to migrate to…

the Mali Empire. The Conquest of New Spain, by Bernal Diaz, recounts the downfall of the Aztec Empire. In the Aztec, Spanish, and Mali Empires women were portrayed as domesticated, were used as a means of creating alliances, and were idols in certain empires. These similarities were common among ancient civilizations during those times. Throughout history women were belittled and mostly treated as maids or servants. As explained by Bernal Diaz,…

Drown was originally published in 1996, written by Junot Diaz. Drown is a collection of ten short stories, and some of these stories published in literary magazines and other venues previously. Pulitzer prize-winning author Junot Diaz, reveals how the poor immigrant Dominican like junkies, single mother households, and hearbreak try to adjust to the changes and make a life in the US. Most of them left their families in the Dominican Republic. Many of the stories are not just simple and obvious…

home country to their life in America. Using two stories “Otravida Otravez” and “Inverino” from the book “This is how you lose her” by Junot Diaz, Diaz explains the theme of Characters who come from a different country or region that moves to the United States for a better life. In the first story “Otravida Otravez” from “This is how you lose her” by Junot Diaz, there are 3 main characters (Yasmin, Ramon, and Ana Iris) who all left their home country to come to America for a better life.…

leads them to experience emotional or physical abuse. As people say love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. Having a good relation between parent and child is very important in every family. In the story "Fiesta 1980" by Junot Diaz and the story ''Sticks'' by George Saunders the boys tell their childhood memories and it shows how there's no love between father and son. In the story ''Fiesta 1980'' the son's vomitting represent that there's something wrong with him…

to succeed? How many of us will value their opinions and choose to not do it? And how many of us will choose the opposite path and become successful? Questions like these, prompted the writing of the essays “Superman and Me” by Sherman Alexie, and Junot Diaz’s “The Dreamer.” People in these similar circumstances may react in a totally different ways, leading to a very different outcomes. After reading “Superman and Me” and “The Dreamer” scrupulously, one will find that these…

races and ethnicities. Diverse countries now face problems involving political refugees, immigrants, and health concerns. Literature has accompanied this era with important contemporary writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Leslie Marmon Silko, Junot Diaz and Hanan Al Shaykh. Twentieth century author Virginia Woolf referred to these changes that modernist generations face: “All human relations have shifted – those between masters and servants,…

Homosexuality has been the topic of our daily life, when we talk about the equality, humanity, and rights of an individual; however, we all have personal opinions about the subject. Some people think that homosexuality is a sickness of the mind and others say that it is a personal choice of lifestyle of a human. Our opinions are usually driven by our believed system, environment, and social customs; and religion teaching leaves strong mark of our way of thinking right verse wrong. Most religion…

Emotional labor is putting feelings into something in order to achieve a certain goal. There is a difference in the emotional labor that is portrayed through the writings of Helena Maria Viramontes and the writings of Junot Diaz. In the articles, Miss Clairol and How to Date a Brown Girl the idea of emotional labor is explored in both the positive and the negative aspects of it. However, the combination of the two can function together, but one may overshadow the other. In the article by…

Dominican family story centered on a young but disoriented American Dominican man in search of love in a hostile world. The intention with this review of the sociological situation on the Dominican community in New York-New Jersey and the books of Diaz is to support the thesis that the first generation of immigrants in the United States suffers from adversities socialy and culturally, we will do this by showing a fictitious but plausible literary example based on the experience of life. In the…