What Is The Significance Of The Cane Field

The most important setting was the Cane-Fields because it represents the whole idea of the novel’s story. The Cane-field was described in the novel as “cane-fields are no fucking joke, and even the cleverest of adults can get mazed in their endlessness”. The cane-field is also where Oscar was said to be in the novel “He shrieked, but it didn’t stop the beating; he begged, and that didn’t stop it, either; he blacked out, but that was no relief”. This was also the last place where Oscar went since this was the place where he died. The cane-field is like the representation of suffering, torture and death. It seemingly represent a place where everything evil is happening. The cane-field is also a representation of danger because of the wideness of the place and the cane which
cover the fields. In all the evil in the cane-field, there is also good in it because this is also where Oscar got a second chance to live a new life yet in the end he still wasted that new life to get be and get the person he wanted to love.
After reading the book, I can say that the novel insight on the world is that different places have different mean there are different kinds of people and different society. Oscar can from a typical Dominican family. In the start of the novel, it stated that “From his home in New Jersey, where he lives” which implies that Oscar grew up in New Jersey. Oscar grew up in New Jersey his whole life is aware of how society works there. In the later part of the novel, it is evident that Oscar did not understand the difference of New Jersey and Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo. In the difference of society, there was a common dysfunctional and collapsing society. The society he is living in is dysfunctional because Dominican Republic and New Jersey was said to be in the novel as “New Jersey is really known for, industrial wastes on both sides of the turnpike”. The novel’s insights on life in the other hand was that life during those time was not easy for Oscar. at the start, Oscar was fine with his life and everything started to fall apart. In
trying to find thee life he always wanted, Oscar continued searching for it until he found it in the later part of the novel. After finding what he was searching for, his life took a massive turn. In the novel’s story, you would see that not everything you search for can be obtain. In Oscar’s case, he was searching of someone he wanted to be with who was Ybón. In finding what he was looking for and trying to get it, he ended up being kill in the process. In the Novel, it is evident that the author was trying to show its readers the society during those times. In the novel’s insights of life and the world during those times was represented by Oscar. Oscar living in both dysfunctional society made him make wrong decision in life and he also never got a chance to live his life fully because in the end he ended up being killed in the Dominical Republic in hope of getting back to Ybón. Aside from that, Oscar also experience problem in his own world. Oscar as a person had imagined himself becoming a better individual. Even though he wanted to get out of that life he is currently living in, Oscar cannot get out of that life and change for the better. He was stuck in the world he was trying to change until his death.