Violence Intertwines With Love Analysis

Unfortunately, our hero lacked in physical attractiveness as well. It was stated on page 22 of the book, “sophomore year Oscar found himself weighing in at a whopping 245” (Diaz) this obesity drives him even further away from the expectations of the society, making it even more difficult for our hero to fit in. Furthermore, to be a real man in Dominican society a male has to depict an aggressive and rough attitude. Diaz makes the character of Oscar lack even this attribute of Dominican masculinity. It is mentioned on page 19, “It wasn’t just that he didn’t have no kind of father to show him the masculine ropes, he simply lacked all aggressive and martial tendencies… Oscar had like a zero combat rating; Aggression and intimidation out of the question.” The above lines show that our hero was not treading the path of nonconformity as a matter of choice; he was simply incapable of following the gender specific requirement of the Dominican

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

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.

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.

This is the beginning of a new, yet complicated life for Oscar. It is not going to be as easy as it was for him to get girl’s attention when he was seven years old. He met a girl who was weird just like him. They began to do things together and that’s when Oscar was starting to have feelings the girl named Ana. When they would go out to hang out “they headed out to either a

In Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the theme of love dictates the major downfalls Oscar goes through in the novel. After a very brief relationship with La Jablesse, La Jablesse ends the relationship between her and Oscar and Oscar goes through a distinct type of depression which Yunior has never seen before. Yunior believed Oscar would fall into the same cycle of depression as he did other times, however, Yunior states that “it wasn’t like always. I knew something was wrong when he stopped writing” which demonstrates how after so many years of searching for love, Oscar had finally reached a breaking point and reach a different level of hopelessness which forced him to stop writing

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

But these were not the expectations Beli had for Oscar. Oscar was Dominican; he was supposed to be the handsome man objectifying women. What happened. He was the fat nerd that was always friend-zoned. This stereotype clouded Oscar’s life. He always worried that “no Dominican male has ever died a virgin” and he’ll be the first (175 Diaz). When Beli was just a girl growing up in the DR, girls threw themselves at men to be idolized, encouraging men to treat them no better than a sex doll; looking for the woman with the best ass and largest breasts that is willing to be used. Beli allowed herself to be used more than once. Unlike some of the women of the Trujillo Era that were willing to throw themselves at the richest, most attractive men, women in the US were fighting the stereotype. They wanted equal rights, to be able to live on their own, to be more than just a set of nice breasts and a large ass. Single women were allowed to make their own choices and were allowed to divorce their husbands by mutual consent

Not only does Oscar’s connection to the Dominican Republic’s standards affect his actions, but it also impacts his thoughts. Oscar grew up in a society where men were expected to have affairs with many women, and when he realizes that he is not a stereotypical Dominican “player,” his thoughts are negatively affected. The first occurrence is when Oscar becomes very depressed during his sophomore because a girl disses him. He continually obsesses about the idea of having a romantic relationship and when nothing arises, the condition worsens. The idea to end his life even arises during the course of college as Oscar walks out to the New Brunswick train bridge and jumps. Luckily, he lands on a garden divider, but the thought of ending his life is certainly present in Oscar’s mind. After college, Oscar’s thoughts continue to worsen as he cannot find love. He falls into a deep depression, can barely get out of bed in the morning, and holds a gun to his head. Once again these feelings are caused by Oscar’s relationship to the past in which he was told that Dominican men should be able to attract many women. Oscar was once successful as he had two girlfriends at the age of seven, and this relationship to a better past impacts his thoughts later in life. The most significant feeling that Oscar has in the novel is his love for Ybón, and this relationship portrays the meaning of the work very well. Oscar cannot stop thinking about this girl, but her capitán boyfriend sprays bullets into La Inca’s house. The capitán then proceeds to beating Oscar and has his henchmen knock Oscar out in a canefield. However, after this incident, his obsession worsens and he chases after Ybón. Finally, the capitán’s henchmen find Oscar and bring him back to the canefield where he is killed. Once again Oscar’s desire to replicate his earlier romantic years in

When he was just seven years old he was seen crying over his first girlfriend. Before this occurred, his he was called “our little Porfirio Rubirosa” and his mother’s friends once said “look at that little macho” when they saw him with his first two girlfriend’s Maritza and Olga. In an article by Katherine Weese, she touches on Oscar’s early masculinity by saying “the novel provides description on the very young Oscar’s winning ways with women, thereby firmly establishing from the outset the connection between sexual conquest and traditional Dominican masculinity.” After he broke up with Olga and then Maritza broke up with him soon after, he was caught crying on the bus and told not to be a baby. This quickly altered his reputation and lead him through an uphill battle for years to find love again. Years later when describing Oscar’s sophomore year of high school at Don Bosco Tech, Yunior says, “Anywhere else, his triple-zero batting average with the girls might have passed unremarked, but this is a Dominican kid, in a Dominican family. Everybody noticed his lack of game and everybody offered him advice.” Unfortunately for Oscar, his lack of luck with women resulted in him repeatedly being reminded by his sister Lola that he is “going to die a virgin.” These examples offer insight on how important it is for a man in their Dominican community to be successful with women in order to hold a good

In Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, he is telling the story of a Dominican family but mainly about the son, Oscar de Leon. The book opens with the story of Oscar as a child and him having two girlfriends at the same time. The older people in town see him as a ladies man and encourage him. The boy and the two girls all break up and his life seemed to be on a steady decline since then. He grows up to become a nerdy, fat, and awkward adolescence with few friends and even less interest from girls. This phase persists throughout his life and he never develops out of the nerdy boy he was as a child. The Dominican Republic was a hostile and poor place during the time of the novel. The dictator Trujillo controls the lives of the

The main theme that both creates and unites violence and love in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is shown from the very beginning in the Act 1 Preface which sets up the context of the fukú and Trujillo’s repressive regime. The language used sets up the dark never ending curse of the fukú with Diaz saying “Because no matter

Throughout the story, Oscar is mocked by others who believe he is not “manly” like other Dominant males and that is why he is not able to get a girl. Unlike other men in his community, Oscar never physically hurt a woman. Even in the situation with Jenni, when he found her having sex with another guy, he screamed at her and threw things around crazily, but he did not lay a hand on her. Obviously, Oscar was mad when he saw Jenni with another guy because he had feelings for Jenni. Unlike the Capitán , who beat Ybón when he caught her kissing another man, Oscar did not hit Jenni. One can witness when Oscar returned to the Dominican Republic forYbón and would patiently wait for her:

While Oscar goes to find another seat on the crowded train, he passes the girl from the supermarket who called his name very loudly. The man that Oscar fought in prison happens to be standing nearby hears his name and starts the fight he promised when they were both out of prison. Oscar's friends jump in to help. The train stops and the BART police search for those who were fighting. The police came and immediately lined all the of Oscar's friends without knowing who was fighting. It was as if they assumed that it was all of the black males that were at