Junot Diaz's The Brief And Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao

The book The Journal Of Biddy Owens by Walter Dean Myers Is a fantastic book! It took place in 1948. About a 16 year old Boy. In my opinion. It's a fast paced book, it's short, and it's about baseball. It's fast paced because their isn't a lot of words to read. Also it's got over 100 pages, so then it would count as a book we would have to read for the quarter.

One thing the Gangster forgot to tell Beli is that he was married and the wife was Trujillo blood. Since Beli was so excited about the pregnancy, she was telling everyone about it and soon the news got to the palace and the Gangster wife was furious.

A unique writer is someone who expresses his or her feelings throughout his narratives. Junot Diaz in my opinion is a unique writer. Growing up in the Dominican Republic, raced only by his hard-working mother, Junot Diaz learned very valuable lessons during his childhood that helped him become who he is today. Junot Diaz writes great stories that allow him to open up his feeling of what it means to be an immigrant from the Dominican Republic throughout his narratives. Diaz humbleness and compassion towards others is illustrated in his writing. Not only does Diaz write amazing novels and short stories, but he also takes action towards exposing the problems that the Dominican people, especially women encounter everyday. Several people

Sexuality in traditional Dominican culture dominates Diaz’s novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” The descriptions and experiences of the main characters in the novel, namely, Oscar, Lola, Beli and Yunior highlight the theme of sexuality in Dominican culture. Yunior is the hyper-masculine narrator who presents sexuality in terms of the power and expectation of Dominican masculinity (Asencio 108). He embodies the ‘el machismo’ masculinity stereotype prevalent in Dominican culture where men have high sex drive and the power to dominate women by controlling their sexuality through violence, coercion, and verbal aggression. Oscar contradicts this machismo power by appearing emasculated like a woman. This shows that women have lower social standing compared to men, even lower than that of weak men like Oscar in Dominican culture. Sexuality plays a central role in Diaz’s novel to illustrate the dominance of masculinity over women in Dominican culture.

In the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the common place where people go to get beat up or killed is a cane (sugar) field. Throughout this whole book when something doesn’t go as planned for Trujillo, the leader of the Dominican Republic, he will hurt those people that come in the way. For example, Beli, an orphan Whose parents were murdered, got pregnant with one of Trujillo’s gangster’s, he ultimately had the baby killed. Another character who is badly beaten is Oscar Wao, he was beaten the first time due to falling in love with Ybon, who was dating the Capitan at the time. Later on the novel Oscar was told not to see her anymore, but he still does. However, this time when he was taken to the cane field he was not so lucky. Throughout

The more you think of yourself , the less you get from this world. Our selfish actions lead us to where we are now and it all gets you sooner or later. Have you ever asked yourself who you are? If not, take a few minutes to think about it and that's what Oscar should have done in Junot Diaz’s postmodern novella. The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao, talks about a Dominican family who is cursed by a curse called the Fuku from the early days of their grandparents. They all had that peaceful time when they thought they were safe, but when they started visiting their homeland, the Fuku came back. Through the book Oscar the main character struggles to find his identity. It was difficult for him since his family was cursed. Oscar wanted to be like

In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao we explore an extensive look at our main character, Oscar. A slightly overweight, highly animated, geek of all geeks, and above all a nice kid who is passionately in love with women. Love and violence fuel each other in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Oscar doesn 't seem to find love until his life is ultimately life threatened. Oscar and our narrator Yunior, are opposites when it comes to Dominican masculinity and act as foils for one another. Having a malediction upon his family that is characterized as violence, we witness the subsequential irony of the novel is the driving force of love.

Ever been heartbroken? How about losing a place within a social circle? These are often daily routines experienced by teenagers around the world, no matter the age, race, or gender. In Junot Díaz’s The Brief Life of Oscar Wao, our main character Oscar Wao faces these realities for nearly his entire life. Junot Díaz brings the reader straight into the life of Oscar Wao in his novel, Díaz’s portrayal of Dominican life in and out of the United States and his exploration of social stigma and the clash of generational beliefs secures Díaz a novel worthy of the Pulitzer Prize.

The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz covers the issue of Love and Violence thoroughly throughout the book, and shows how anger and love influence the impulsive and reckless decisions the characters made. Searching for Zion, by Emily Raboteau on the other hand shows that love comes in different forms and may be easily misunderstood. Abelard, Belicia, Lola, and Emily show love can be a devastating force if not handled carefully and, could be very dangerous. As others commonly have, Oscar confuses passion or lust with love, which in many ways can be critical when conveyed in violence. Similarly, Emily doesn’t fully understand the love that she shares with her father and it leads her to dangerous

Junot Diaz’s novel truly does tell the brief story of the wondrous life of Oscar de Léon, our Dominican-American protagonist, better known as Oscar Wao. Weighing in at 245 pounds, our hopeless romantic loves comic books, writes science-fiction in all of his spare time, and, as described by our homodiegetic narrator Yunior, is a “loser with a capital L” (Diaz 17). While the title might allude that this is a story solely about Oscar, Diaz also delves deep into the lives of those closest to him. This narrative tells the epic journey of Oscar, as well as his family members, and how their experiences in the United States and Dominican Republic come together full-circle at the end of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, with the help of some postmodern techniques. As an immigrant himself, Diaz is able to use his journey to bring attention to the cultural stereotypes of his characters, but unlike many bildungsroman writings, our character’s coming of age story does not provide him with enough spiritual learnings to give him the quintessential happy ending. The overall growth of Oscar only reveals the flaws in his culture, a fatal flaw in his case. Because Oscar does not comply with the Dominican standards, he faces heavy repercussions in his life.

I chose to read “Champion Of The World” by Maya Angelou. This is the story of a great accomplishment made by a man who did not only want to win, but needed to for the sake of his people. It grabbed my attention because he was risking himself in the selfless intension of helping his people as a whole. This courageous man’s name was Joe Louis; and he was fighting to prove that his people were stronger than they received credit for. Throughout “Champion Of The World,” hope was very prevalent but it didn’t fully show what hope can truly do.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Juniot Diaz is not only a literal book, but also it is a jigsaw puzzle—a set of irregular shaped and interlocking pieces that form a picture when fitted together. Typical images found on puzzles include scenes from nature, architectures, and patterns, nonetheless this puzzle is a picture of Oscar’s life. The picture consists of various sections, correspondingly the novel divides into chapters: mainly concentrates on the life of Oscar and the history of Oscar’s family. Each chapter is designated to a character from a significant generation, such as the second chapter about Lola, Oscar’s sister, chapter three about his mother, chapter five about his grandparents etc. Every piece of the puzzle is a part

The book that I chose to read is Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. This book is long, and I had started reading it a while back, but never finished it. I finally decided to finish reading the book and I do not regret it at all. I have read other books from Ayn Rand before, where she depicts her philosophy about working hard for that one loves, reason being above all, pursing one’s own happiness, prospering in life, and achieving one’s purpose all while treating others as individuals, understanding the value of work, and trading value for value. Atlas Shrugged illustrates her philosophy of the ideal human beings through some really admirable characters.

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