Essay On Oscar

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is not a happy book. The Author, Junot Diaz, does a great job fooling the reader into believing the story is about the De Leon family, specifically Oscar who is an over weight nerd trying to find the love of his life, but due to a family “fuku” or curse Oscar is having a lot of trouble doing so. Instead, the story actually portrays the dark history of the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. Upon reading the stories of Oscar’s relatives the reader feels a powerful message of fear and oppression due to the actions of the Trujillo regime. Even after the demise of

Oscar Grant III is depicted as a real human being who struggles daily to become a better person in a world that has already proven to be injustice to him. He was a great father, loving son, loved his girlfriend but struggled with infidelity, and was a convicted felon. The movie

When Oscar is eighteen years old he meets an important girl named Ana in an SAT prep class. He immediately falls in love, but unfortunately also falls “into one of those Let’s-Be-Friends Vortexes” (Díaz 41). While Oscar is just one of her

Wanting to feel the love he once felt Oscar had this propensity of falling in

Oscar is the antithesis of his culture’s idea of manliness. In the beginning we meet an Oscar who is called “Porfirio Rubirosa” (21). Everyone is proud of the boy because this is exactly what he needs to be to be a Dominican man. Men from Dominican Republic, and perhaps Spanish Caribbean men, are expected to take care of their family especially their mothers and sisters, yet they are also expected to be “playboys” who have multiple women. as the first line of the story communicates, “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-bachetero, not a playboy with a million hots on his jock” (21). Oscar is the type of man who women say they want; kind, sensitive, considerate, smart, and romantic. He truly want to find true

Oscar de Leon from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a character that be classified as a member of many different types of social groups. He is characterized as a Dominican, a

The Election and The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao both had typical high school love drama both involving where the girl could not continue the relationship. With The Election one of the teacher’s had an affair with a student. The teacher fell in love with the student, but was very childish about it. Eventually, the student came to realize that this morally wrong and tried to stay away from him as much as possible. The relationship terminally ended when the mother of the student found out from a note the teacher had written on her test. In the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Oscar fell in love with Ana and tried his best to be there for her. However, what was preventing that relationship was his nerdy personality and that she was still in love with her ex-boyfriend Manny. Even after he changed his looks and confessed his love for her she still was not interested in him. The teacher and Oscar were going after girls who they knew weren’t a good suit for them. Even with the warning signs and

Trouble began to brew because of the woman, and it seemed logical to any normal person to discontinue the pursuit; but Oscar’s stubbornness that was frequently depicted in situations throughout the novel led him to his death. In this novel there was no other way for Oscar to die logically; he needed a big bang to bow out of his eccentric life and what better way for him, than to die for love. True love, what Oscar had been searching for his entire life and finally found, had killed him.

Oscar continued to teach at his old high school in New Jersey, sad and depressed everyday for three years, that is until his trip to Santo Domingo. Oscar forgot how much he had missed spending time in the Dominican. His mind was no longer filled to the brim with disappointment, stress and the feeling of being depressed. For the first time in a while, he saw beautiful

As it unfolds in "The Golden Age" section, Oscar is part of a Dominican-American family that lives in Paterson, New Jersey. As a child he is pushed forward to the opposite sex by his mother, which is very proud about his early signs of virility. This is seen as one of the standing characteristics of Dominican males. Further on, we watch the decline of Oscar's success with women as he gains weight and he deepens himself in literature and isolation. This is caused by Maritza's rejection which affected him profoundly.

Everything begins when Oscar at the age of seven his mother finds him crying for a girl and his mother tells him to be respected by women, before this event Oscar was seen in the community as a small playboy Dominican Rubirosa, he has a relationship with two girls at the same time for a week, a week before the girls ask him to have to choose which of the two is going to stay and then the two left him.it can be said that from that moment everything began.

Oscar is not the typical Dominican man that his family expects him to be. He is considered to be a nerd which leads to the lack of romance in his adolescence and adulthood. In an article by Joori Joyce Lee it says: “Growing up as a ghetto nerd, or "a smart kid in a poor-ass community," Diaz felt like a mutant because he found himself to be an outsider in both the Dominican subculture and mainstream white American society.” (Lee, pg 23). Oscar could never really fit in with his peers or even with Dominicans, he is always considered an outsider to them. “Everybody noticed his lack of game and because they were Dominican everybody talked about it.” (Diaz, pg. 24). His own family recognizes his lack of masculinity that a Dominican man should have. Even Oscar’s sister Lola encourages him to lose weight and to become more masculine in order to get a girlfriend. His uncle Rudolfo is a prime example of what society expects every

The school Tatiana goes to is called First Fruit Learning Center and then Oscar drives past a Fruitvale Avenue street sign. The train passing by is also often shown throughout the film. When Oscar witnesses the dog die the train passes by as the dog gets hit by the car. The dog getting hit was definite foreshadowing of Oscar’s later death. The film gradually makes Oscar more complex with a lot of emotional baggage. The complexity of Oscar is atypical of Hollywood films because usually people of color are often portrayed as static characters who reflect classic Hollywood stereotypes. Whenever Oscar gets angry in the film he raises his voice, the sound is amplified, and then there is a cut to silence. The film utilizes hand-held cameras to create a realistic look. When Oscar decides to dump the drugs he was going to sell the next scene shows him walking through the child care center to pick up his daughter. The walk through the child center was an excellent use of mis-en-scene to symbolize innocence. Oscar is shown running in slow motion while racing his daughter as this serves as a burst of freedom. In the film Frances Ha running also symbolized freedom. The scene at Oscar’s mother’s house had warm tones and colors and the camera editing had lots of tight close-ups which

In popular culture and mainstream media, women are often portrayed as overtly sexual objects that are obligated to entertain the idea of patriarchy. The strong outward appearances and characteristics of women in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz are deceiving, as they do not reveal their powerlessness against men. Throughout the entire book, women are described and seen as sexual objects through the eyes of Yunior, Oscar, and various other men. In the first chapter, Oscar and his peers treat women like they are disposable, despite their desire and need for them. This negative trend is reinforced in the next two chapters, as the narrators shamelessly describe women by emphasizing their feminine traits whilst simultaneously displaying the idea of male dominance. In addition, strong-willed women like Beli and Lola refuse to succumb to such lustful treatment, but when they are tempted with the fantasy of true love, they immediately lose their strength and surrender. In the last few chapters, these ideas are further reinforced through the sexual desire that Oscar possesses. He meets Ybon, a prostitute with a boyfriend, and immediately falls in love. Ybon is committed to her boyfriend, but because of the way she is seen in a patriarchal system, she gives in to the forbidden love that Oscar offers. No matter how strong these women were within the story, they always let the men have their way. In the end, Oscar dies because of his uncontrollable desire for love. The

Alejandro G. Inarritu utilises an extensive array of literary techniques to display the main themes of greatness, power, and the struggle between reality and madness in his cinematic and literary triumph Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).