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    In Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao‚ women in the Dominican Republic are objectified by men; they are treated as sex symbols and objects of desire. Similarly‚ a women’s worth is dependent upon her physical attractiveness solely and not her character. Women are also chastised and physically assaulted for failing to subjugate themselves to men. What role and power do women have in the novel and is it merely limited to pleasing men? Arguably Beli more than anyone understands

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    In the Time of Butterflies vs. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Rafael Trujillo impacted the lives of the families in both‚ In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alverez and The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. While the effects of the tyrannical regime were direct and immediate for the Mirabal family‚ it was much more indirect and subtle for the Carabal family. Both novels carried overarching themes of love‚ oppression and the quest for freedom. The Mirabal

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    Oscar Wao Individualism

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    Oscar Wao believes he is such a lowly person: no friends‚ no life‚ and no freedom. Another thing that really bothers Oscar is that everyone around him is in a relationship and he is not‚ when he was small he used to be a very alpha male character someone that all the girls would like. He was known for his dating habits in the Dominican community and was very popular for it. But as he grew up he gained weight and wasn’t particularly attractive to anyone. Oscar had a challenging life throughout

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    The Brief 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

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    In his historical novel‚ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao‚ Junot Diaz illuminates the dysfunctionality of the hyper-sexualized culture of the Dominican Republic through the juxtaposition of the fukú‚ or curse‚ the fictional legacy of the deLeon family‚ and the historical oppressive regime of Rafael Trujillo. As the hostile dictator of the Dominican Republic for 31 years‚ Trujillo’s embodiment of a masculinity characterized by terror‚ abuse‚ and the objectification of women‚ develops into the

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    book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junto Díaz‚ the main character Oscar De León’s family really believes the family is under a major Fukú. First off to explaining what Fukú is‚ according to Díaz‚ it is a curse or a doom of some kind. Now to focusing on how the Fukú effects Oscar himself looking at different aspects of the character. Firstly it is best to describe Oscar’s appearance to get a better idea of the character. Oscar never was a small man‚ and over the years of his life he tried

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    the oppressed citizens during the Trujillato era. The fact that they’re faceless only shows us that they will remain nameless‚ and that their stories will never be told. It’s kind of a sad and scary symbolism especially when it got to the part that Oscar thinks that the faceless man he saw was joining his beating down. Maybe that’s a representation of how other citizens started to concede to Trujillato’s rule and hurt others just to protect themselves. Next‚ personally‚ I think the mongoose represents

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    Oscar Wao Dehumanize Women

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    just so that a man can be accepted is‚ in my eyes‚ something utterly absurd and should not even be an idea in any culture. Throughout The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz‚ the reader distinguishes that in the Dominican Republican communities‚ is it known that in order to be accepted by society‚ men have to be able to be “good with the girls”. Oscar Wao‚ one of the characters‚ does experience this. The readers can see that this act dehumanizes women in that society reducing their existence

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    Isolation: Real or Imagined? In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz‚ isolation is a common theme that contributes to character development throughout the novel. Junot Diaz‚ in his narration of Oscar’s life through the eyes of Yunior‚ induces the idea that isolation is a self-imagined way for a character or person to justify his/her differences from society and the people around them. While there are outside forces that contribute to the feeling of isolation‚ such as cultural differences

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    generation to generation; what we fail to see is the reason for this pattern and the ways in which we can remedy the situation. A great example of this issue is displayed in the novel‚ The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao‚ by Junot Díaz. The female characters of Junot Diaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao‚ La Inca‚ Beli‚ and Lola‚ demonstrate the ways in which colonialism led to the dehumanization of citizens‚ especially women‚ and how these power dynamics carry over into modern society in

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