The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Trujillo’s Life Trujillo, a man of many powers, considered so powerful that he could wish a family to suffer and they would. The dictator of a weak Dominican Republic, mass murderer, and god like leader. Nevertheless, it could be said that he worked for this, and earned the power, as cruel as he might have been. Because of this he became a very important character to Junot Diaz’s book ‘’The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,’’ and to comprehend the novel better we need to get a better…

In The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao it describes a boy who once he hit his early adolescence years he was bullied and left aside. “He no longer went anywhere near the girls because at best they ignored him, at worst they shrieked and called him gordo asqueroso!” (Wao 135). The boys are expected to be over muscular with abs and a slim fit body in order to look attractive an image of an unrealistic body type. Also, a (Aiello) high percentage of our youth in America have social media, and/or…

The Flawed Man and Identity in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Humans have always encountered the idea of the ‘flawed man’ because we see it in ourselves, and in the people around us. The flawed man is never finished and continuously pushes and strives to improve himself or compensate for faults. Diaz’s fascination with the ‘flawed man’ is apparent in all three of his major novels, Drown, This is How You Lose Her, and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The majority of his characters…

At least, 52 million people out of the 320 million living in the United States speak fluent Spanish and millions more have some knowledge of the Spanish language. In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao the author, Junto Diaz, frequently integrates spanish words and phrases into his writing and demonstrates that Spanish is not a minority language in the United States. Diaz utilizes a technique commonly referred to as Code-switching in order to represent the blurred boundaries of language around…

The theme of gender roles has a major effect on the way a book is written. This theme is shared with the two books “The Complete Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi and “The Brief, Wondrous life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Díaz. The first difference the reader can see is that, although sharing the same theme, have a very different view on what it means to be masculine or feminine, due to different cultural lifestyles. Secondly, the characters of the stories must then change the way they grew up or believe…

In the novel, “The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Noir; A dominican American who makes fition books. In regards to plot this was taking place in Paterson, New Jersey where theauthor is born and raised and deals with the Dominican republic experience under dictator Rafalel Trujillo. The book itself is narrorated by characters who incorporate the perception of Dominican Masculinity, culture and language. Consequently the book narrorates each characters life experience through child…

book to demonstrate how sharing alternative stories is the key to creating another, better reality. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a testimony to the power of fantasy—Díaz reveals…

In the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz introduces terms and beliefs that come from Dominican culture before delving into these experiences of Oscar, Lola, Belli, Yunior, and others. One of the more essential terms introduced by Diaz is this idea of fukú. Simply, fukú is this bad luck that exists not only for one individual, but it is bad luck that is passed down through generations. Diaz initially introduces this term in-text through our narrator, Yunior, as “a curse or doom of some…

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is the tragic story of the young Oscar de Leon. As the author Junot Diaz puts it, “Our hero was not one of those Dominican cats everybody’s always going on about---he wasn’t no home-run hitter or a fly bachatero, not a playboy with a million hots on his jock.”(Diaz 11). Poor Oscar was just a pawn in this play between good and evil, light and dark, the fuku and the zafa. Oscar’s entire identity was the product of his family’s curse, destined to live a short,…

Twentieth-century texts, specifically that of American literature, which address diaspora and the effects of displacement, exhibit a purposeful distortion of reality in efforts to define what reality is. It is important then, within such texts, to examine the depiction of a character’s subjective experience in response to their extreme circumstances. When personal circumstances evolve, and what was once the mundane or the ordinary, digress into an array of cataclysm, the self too, digresses in…