Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao Essay

Often time, love is the source of violence in a relationship. Some people become violent because of jealousy or heartache. In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz, the fuku is a curse which revolves around the Cabral family and Oscar believed it is a bad luck for him. Oscar falls in love with the girls easily that leads him to his death. The characters from the novel were physically abused because of love. In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, there is a complicated relationship between love and violence. While love was the cause of great violence and danger in the novel, it also freed them of the fuku, the family curse.
The friendship of Ana and Oscar will cause her pain. Because of jealousy, “Manny smacked her, Manny kicked her, Manny called her a fat twat, Manny cheated on her, she was sure, with this Cuban chickie from the middle school” (Diaz 44). Ana is Manny’s girlfriend, but when Manny returns from the military, she stops hanging out with Oscar. Manny is jealous to Oscar because Ana and Oscar are close. Ana
After Oscar had sex with Ybon he says, “so this is what everybody’s always talking about! Diablo! If only, I’d known. The beauty! The beauty!” (335). Oscar is a nerd and called,“not Dominican Male” because he is still a virgin. He falls in love quickly with the girls he meets, but the girls treat him like a friend only. Until he met Ybon, a prostitute girl, she made Oscar feel loved. Oscar’s mother, Beli doesn’t like Ybon because she is much older than him and she already has children. Oscar didn't listen to her mother and he followed his wants. From his heart breaks, he thinks that he was cursed and that is the reason why girls are not attractive to don’t love him. After they had sex Oscar realizes that it was not only just a sex, but there is an intimacy between them. Oscar finally loses his virginity and he thinks that the fuku is finally