The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Essay

The dynamic aspect in Fusi's character is essentially the distinct change from optimistic to pessimistic in the climax of the story. Collateral damage from adversity involves not just a temporary imbalance in your behaviour but also a permanent shift in your personality, which for example, can be brought out by rejection or denial in doing what you love to do. For instance, such a jolly, peppy old man who felt a sense of satisfaction from fishing illegally was thoroughly changed after he got to know he technically wasn’t doing anything illegal since the fish inspectors who patrol the lake he fished in, knew all along. Emma could've also kept it a secret from him after she got to know the fish inspectors were aware and left him happy, keeping herself content as well, but she told him and broke him meaninglessly. The circumstances a person is in when confronting adversity also alters the affect it has. Due to the old age and therefore trivial psychological strength possessed by Fusi, the adversity has had a maximal atrocious impact. In my personal life however I

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

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

Each one of the characters has to choose if love is going to be their Fuku or Zafa. If they choose love as their Zafa they would live a life without real love from a partner. Some characters chosen love as their Zafa, such as Beli, Lola and La Inca. However, the curse gives them the option of live a life with love for a couple of time until they found death, such as Abelard and Oscar. The use of amor in the novel helps the reader to understand that this is when the curse starts for every character and they eventually choose if they want a live without love or die while they are in

When we see that the people that we love have to deal with a horrible situation we try to make it better anyway we can, sometimes giving up the most important part of ourselves. In The Brief Life of Oscar Wao, Diaz argues that there are stronger forces around us. With fuku, the curse in the Dominican Republic, is present in the lives of Oscar and Beli when they both have an encounter with the

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.

While at Rutgers, Oscar thought he had something going with a girl named Jenni Muñuz. They became pretty good friends, getting into deep conversations and telling each other secrets. Oscar only imagined the relationship developing into Jenni becoming his girlfriend. The Fuku had to be getting the best of Oscar at this point, as Jenni found another guy that she made her boyfriend. Again, Oscar was more than crushed. His heart had cracked into a million pieces, glued back together and the shattered again. Oscar was in such bad shape after Jenni found a boyfriend that he decided to commit suicide. Luckily for Oscar, he survived his jump from the bridge as he landed safely on the median. Oscar makes it through college and finds a nice job teaching at his old high school in New Jersey. It is not until a much needed trip to the Dominican Republic where his attitude starts to change.

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.

Andrew Wyeth was born July 12, 1917 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of five children. Andrew was a sickly child and so his mother and father made the decision to pull him out of school after he contracted whooping cough. He received schooling in all subjects including art education.

““Fuku americanus” Diaz explains, is "generally a curse or a doom of some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World." It seems especially contagious and deadly in the Dominican Republic, where "it is believed that the arrival of Europeans on Hispaniola unleashed the Fukú on the world.”” (Review: It’s a Wonderful Life 4). Fukú is shown through the many horrific events that are shown throughout. Trujillo is believed to be able to put the curse on whoever he chooses for many generations to follow. In the news article Fukú Americanus, Deresiewicz states,

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

Love is most definitely a two way street but for Oscar it was emphatically a one way street.

Fugui first had the thought of taking his life when he lost his family fortune to gambling, driven to the edge of despair, “He wanted to hang himself [myself] with his [my] belt and be done with it.” (P28) However, Fugui did no implement this into action when he “realize [d] that he [I] had not the slightest inclination to take off his belt.”(p28) Life still had a meaning for Fugui at that point, taking away his own life was merely a way to “punish himself [myself]” (p28), he was confound and did not know the direction of life, the impulsion of taking away would only lead to more desire to live, the moment when life is eminent to death a human being would come into realization that life is precious. However fugui’s value of his life did lower due to the misfortune, as he sates: “When your life has been reduced to the level mine had, you really don't care all that much.” (p47) Fugui once was a man at the very top of

Andy Warhol uses a unique and whimsical style when he creates one of his iconic pieces. Between the blotted lines and rubber stamps he uses to create his work, he also uses aggressive and bold gestures of paint that set his work apart from other artists of his time. He casts a cool and ironic light on the extensiveness of commercial culture and contemporary celebrity worship. Early in his career, he began to utilize the silkscreen process to transfer photographic images to canvas; images of mass-produced consumer products and Hollywood film stars are among his most recognizable subjects. The compilation of paintings was conceived after President Nixon’s historic trip to China in 1972. “This series announced Warhol’s return to painting with