Analysis Of The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao By Junot Diaz

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz contains many different themes throughout the story. The aspect I am most interested in exploring is the relationship between dictators and writers. Junot Díaz portrays that writers can dictate what they wish their readers to know, just as dictators of a country can divulge or withhold any information they wish to their citizens. Yunior, the narrator, holds the power of telling readers the life stories of the de León-Cabral family. I am also interested in the aspect that Yunior is telling this story as a counterattack on the fukú that has cursed the de León-Cabral family since the reign of the Trujillo. I have been looking for sources to supply me with a similar viewpoint that discuss the form
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In Junot Diaz’s book The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the author shows the synergistic bond between love and sex to be fractured in Dominican culture. The effect of Rafael Trujillo’s 31-year dictatorship discouraged softer emotions such as love and pressured the public to behave animalistic in his image. This was accomplished through extended violent and harassing treatment of the Dominican people by Trujillo, and scars Dominican culture to this day. In understanding the impact of such a…

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