English 1010 Response to Oskar Wao #2 “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” written by Junot Diaz‚ is about a man’s spiritual search for himself. Set in New Jersey‚ Oskar Wao attends Rutgers University. Oskar spends his free time writing science fiction stories.Oskar’s loneliness and desperate need to find a companion haunts him and eventually leads to his death. Oskar’s skills with the ladies didn’t last past elementary school. By the time high school came around Oscar was an outcast. Oskar
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Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz both happy and unhappy‚ it is logical in the sense that it follows logically from the climax of the novel all while the character’s have been constant throughout‚ except Oscar. Oscar‚ the protagonist experiences a life-changing transformation that leads to his untimely death. However‚ the ending is convincing because of this transformation and it is convincing that the novel would end the way it would. Diaz wrote this novel in a way that kept the reader
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Yunior In the story “Fiesta” by Junot Diaz‚ Yunior is the protagonist. His actions and dialogue given by Diaz is what makes Yunior such a round character. A round character is a character that the writer provides so much information about that it is almost as if we know the character as a real person. Through Diaz’s description we learn so much about Yunior that it is almost as if he has come to life through the words written on the page‚ and he has become a real person. Yunior wants to have
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what was happening. However‚ while I was in Poland I heard the stories and experience from the survivors themselves and it enhanced my connection and made their history more of a reality. In the book‚ “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao‚” by Junot Diaz‚ the narrator of the story‚ Yunior‚ attempts to give the reader the same sense of living history through first hand accounts‚ personal stories and memories he gained from Oscar. Although these stories have been passed on through families it does not
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A Real Dominican Man In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz‚ the reader is led through the novel with a lot of uncertain thoughts and questions about the main characters‚ one in particular Oscar Wao. When I first started working on the assignment my topic was what and who is a real Dominican man? What characteristics does a true Dominican man have? Why isn’t Oscar like all the other Dominican Men? I found it strange that as I began to look through passages I was finding more of what
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some kind; specifically the Curse and the Doom of the New World‚” written in the Pulitzer Prize winning novel—The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao‚ which is written by Junot Diaz (Diaz 1). If you make a bad choice‚ you will receive “fuku‚” says Junot Diaz in the interview on Q TV (YouTube). In the interview with Slate Magazine‚ Diaz says that the novel “is all about the dangers of dictatorship” (Rourke 3). It describes how Oscar’s family’s three generations have been affected by the dictatorship of Trujillo
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Luis R. Ramos English Comp 2 Prof. Marion Stewart Titus September 21st‚ 2012 Aguantando By Junot Diaz “Aguantando” means holding on. In the very first paragraph we see how important it is for the narrator‚ Yunior‚ to hold on to his father’s memory. Yunior lives with his mother (Mami)‚ grandfather (Abuelo) and brother (Rafa). They live in a house where anything of value‚ including furniture‚ food‚ clothing and even Mami’s Bible is stained from a leaky roof. As a Hispanic male‚
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Western European Baroque Era and today’s society In today’s world modern art has been a big factor in the society today‚ whether or not we know it looking at Western European Baroque Era‚ naming some of the best Baroque artist such as Bernini and Caravaggio‚ they used great illustrations such as drama‚ motion and even feeling in the work they presented. It showed life in the time and the effort they put forward. Most of all it showed the truth and the reality in what they work on. Comparing today’s
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Isolation: Real or Imagined? In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz‚ isolation is a common theme that contributes to character development throughout the novel. Junot Diaz‚ in his narration of Oscar’s life through the eyes of Yunior‚ induces the idea that isolation is a self-imagined way for a character or person to justify his/her differences from society and the people around them. While there are outside forces that contribute to the feeling of isolation‚ such as cultural differences
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Junot Diaz was born in Santo Domingo‚ Dominican Republic. He and his family immigrate to New Jersey while he was seven years old. He is a big fan of reading‚ often walking four miles in order to borrow books from the public library. He graduated from Rutgers University as majoring in English. He has creative and simple writing skills‚ even though English is my second language‚ I can still understand his writing easily. He started writing books after he graduated college. Fiesta is one of his
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