Junot Diaz's Drown Chapter 1 Summary
The desire Yunior’s father has to have his own home, a family, and a respectful job in America is a perfect description of the American Dream. Yunior’s father's dedication to achieving his image of the American Dream is fully revealed in the final chapter of Drown, “Negocios.”
I found the structure of Diaz’s Drown to be very intriguing, as the first eight chapters differ greatly from the final two chapters. To elaborate, the first eight chapters are a first-person narrative of Yunior, and although Yunior is still the narrator of “No Face” and “Negocios”, yet his tone changes to that of a storyteller. There are occasional small passages when Yunior takes the first-person narrative in these chapters, for example, “I’d taken three trains to reach
I found the structure of Diaz’s Drown to be very intriguing, as the first eight chapters differ greatly from the final two chapters. To elaborate, the first eight chapters are a first-person narrative of Yunior, and although Yunior is still the narrator of “No Face” and “Negocios”, yet his tone changes to that of a storyteller. There are occasional small passages when Yunior takes the first-person narrative in these chapters, for example, “I’d taken three trains to reach