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    upside down spirals with his betrayal and infidelities. Conflict is one of the most important parts of any story. This story is full of conflict‚ internal and external created by his own infidelities‚ along with exceptional usage of literary techniques Diaz writes an exceptional conclusion to Yunior’s life. As he spends years obsessing and dwelling over a relationship‚ that failed‚ as he starts over he and realizes the price he has had to pay for his way of life. The major focus of this analysis is the

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    again. People whom have their loved ones suffered the loss of hearing‚ cannot stand to see their own family member or friend suffering. People whom lost their hearing suddenly‚ can fall in the depression. “On My Father’s Loss of Hearing”‚ by Joanne Diaz was written about her father who suffered the loss of hearing and the author uses three devices that are connotation‚ irony‚ hyperbole‚ and to help explore the difficulty of hearing loss. Connotation is emotional‚ psychological or social overtone

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    Jeffrey Fisher Final Paper Eng 102 Professor Peterson Trujillo and the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is not a happy book. The Author‚ Junot Diaz‚ does a great job fooling the reader into believing the story is about the De Leon family‚ specifically Oscar who is an over weight nerd trying to find the love of his life‚ but due to a family “fuku” or curse Oscar is having a lot of trouble doing so. Instead‚ the story actually portrays the dark history

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    Browngirl‚ Blackgirl‚ Whitegirl‚ or Halfie” seems to play into and highlight the racial stereotypes that affect the way Americans see each other; however‚ Diaz is in fact working to show that even people who believe they understand the full extent of stereotypes‚ especially men‚ find themselves subordinate to the ones they are stereotyping. In this story‚ Diaz shows how female stereotypes actually control the actions of a males seeking intimacy. The man will revert to basic instinct and base his decisions

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    Oscar Wao Analysis

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    Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz unmasks the effects of politics‚ diaspora‚ and gender in the development of the hyphenated Dominican-American culture. Trujillo’s regime reveals the impact of militarism and dictatorship on a culture and people. Díaz represents how the violent and corrupt nature of the Trujillato shapes gender stereotypes and sexuality and the portrayal of Oscar illustrates the discriminations against hetero-normative masculinities. Díaz also represents the role of Dominican

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    Christianity in crisis. Diaz explains the struggles of Hispanics throughout America and‚ shows how the struggle does exist. She writes from the perspective of a Hispanic woman herself. The purpose of the article is simply to elaborate how Hispanics blend into the American society. The situation in this article is Diaz’s desire to show the Hispanic struggles going on through America. The target audiences of this article are obviously Hispanics in America. Mainly and most impor-tantly Diaz does claim that

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    Magical Realism

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    Abelard and this family fought against the curse of fuku which was caused by Trujillo. By unconventionally using a writing method of magic realism‚ the author Junot Diaz wrote about a real history of Dominican Republic during Trujillo’s dictatorship period and the lives of Dominican people who live in America nowadays. Magical realism allows Diaz to bring supernatural elements to the story. Even though this novel has many magic elements‚ the core of it is trying to express the Dominican Republic’s or Latin

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    Title: Show how the concepts of territory and flow help us understand the conflict over water in the Mexico-US Border region. Introduction It is an essential component of human behaviour to seek to control and defend the spaces we live in. Territories are a way of bringing order‚ control and borders to society. Territorial ordering awards spaces exclusivity and cultural sovereignty‚ making them exclusive and defendable (Albert et al‚ 1999). In a world of increasing globalisation notions of borderless

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    MARY KORANTENG CO MIC SPIRIT IN AMERICA LITERATURE AND CULTURE JANUARY 20‚ 2012 INSTRUCTOR: MR. WAITHAKA The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz is about a Dominican family who lives in Paterson New Jersey and they have been through many tribulations in life. The theme I chose for my essay is Fuku and Love‚ in the novel these two themes were mainly the reason why the characters got their self in situations

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    “fuku” curse has affected Oscar in more ways than you could imagine. It is a novel within a novel and is much more than ever thought it would be. Junot Diaz creates something that’s both typical and a typical. He creates a twenty first century novel with a twist. Postmodernism plays a very important role in this novel and it was one of the tools that Diaz used to create this novel. Postmodernism refers to a time period and can be described as skeptical interpretations. Postmodernism in literature and

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