Even though Oscar is always falling in love, violence is always involved. And if he does not try to do it himself someone else is trying to kill him. Love and violence go hand in hand with his relationships.
Oscars first experience falling into love sets the tone for love being equated with hurt or pain. Oscar dumbs Olga “the following day on the playground with Maritza by his side and Olga pouring down in tears”. So Oscar stayed with Maritza his first love he loved most. When Oscar finally picks his first girlfriend and gets dumped immediately. Oscar had picked Maritza over Olga and got cheated on and dumped. Oscar was “too hurt to speak that he had sat down on the curb, felt overwhelmed and scared when he finally realized …show more content…
Before he leaves off to college and starts to fall in love with her he also finds out that Ana has a boyfriend that he did not know about. Ana and Oscar spend endless time together, but then Ana’s boyfriend Manny comes back from the army and Ana disappears on Oscar. When Manny comes back, that is when the violence comes in to play. Everything happened to Ana at once “Manny smacked her, kicked her, called her a fat twat, and cheated on her”. And his life is still going downhill from there because Ana hurt him and he thought that if he goes to college his life would differ but he still realizes that he is a …show more content…
And Oscar is not the type of person to hurt a women and his Tio Rudolfo had told him that he needs to slap a women around and hurt them in order to get a women and have their relationship last. His Tio and other gentlemen in his family have history of beating women. Also his mom had accepted of women beating because she did not say anything when Oscar Tio was telling him that’s what he should do to get women. The situation with Ana and her boyfriend Manny and him beating her relates because Ana had showed up at “Oscar’s house with a bruise on her face and her blouse torn and the mom had said I don’t want trouble here!” This means that she is in favor of men beating women because she did not try to help or anything she just pretty much told her to leave.
Oscar finally graduated college and started his job and living his life. His mom had sent him back to his hometown after a couple of years he hasn’t been there and he had met a girl named Ybon. She was a prostitute and her boyfriend was a cop. And he started to think about if he should talk to a girl with a boyfriend again because of his last issues with