Summary: The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao

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What Does It Mean To Be A Hero? “Six weeks after the Colossal Beatdown he dreamed about the cane again. But instead of bolting when the cries began, when the bones started breaking, he summoned all the courage he ever had, would ever have, and forced himself to do the one thing he did not want to do, that he could not bear to do. He listened” (307). The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is about a boy who does not quite fit in, and he spends his whole life pining after different women. He is Dominican and his family has had a dark history. Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, uses Oscar to argue that anyone can be a hero, whether they save one person or many. Oscar had been observing Ybon for a while, before she finally

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Summary Of The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao

this paper is a question at the center of many readers’ (or at the very least, one Judah’s) mind while reading The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao: despite his status as title character, is Oscar really the main character of this story? Ostensibly, he is, considering the bulk of the novel consists of Yunior chronicling his former roommate’s odd and abbreviated existence. Yet Oscar often feels absent from his own story, too caught up in his hobbies and hopeless romantic ways to make his own destiny…

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The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao Summary

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao By: Junot Díaz 1. My initial response while reading The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao was that it was very culturally involved and it taught me about the way of life for the Dominicans. For example, the author uses humor to show us that Dominican men are always focused on having a woman in their life. They always believe that “they will always get the girl”. What I remember best from the reading is that the main character, Oscar, was always trying to get a…

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The Brief And Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao Summary

In Junot Díaz’s novel, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a very critical and pivotal aspect of the novel itself is Díaz’s continual inclusion of Dominican history. Díaz uses them as points of reference to relate the fictional story back to the nonfiction culture it is built around. His use of paramount people and events tied back to the Dominican Republic connect his characters back to their ancestral roots. Therefore, the concept of history is vital to the development of the novel because…

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