Essays on The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

After reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junto Diaz, the emphasis and implications of gender roles became evident. The extreme “machismo” attitude that is expected of Dominican men has arguably caused or contributed to the degrading of women to the point where...

My mouth fell open, but I wasn’t really too surprised. I often get comments about my inability to dance. Even the worst grade on my report card this year was in Dance, because the teacher agreed that I had no rhythm! My black friends shake...

Junot Diaz goes through many levels in order to speak upon the topic of gender norms. He begins by talking about the coming of age of the main character Oscar. Then he moves into the topic of speaking about his quest for love. Now, many...

“But I love her” utters a disgruntled Oscar after he is told repeatedly by his family to leave the Dominican Republic in order to escape to wrath that is associated with Ybon- the woman he claims to be madly in love with. Love, escape and...

While Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart take place in utterly contrasting place and time, the protagonists of their respective stories find themselves bound and being haunted by their identities. Whilst being drawn towards the idea of being...

Junot Diaz’s, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a book that has received numerous accolades for its style, story, and various themes that it includes or hints at as the story unfolds. Full of effective, even if sometimes confusing and complicated elements, Diaz’s...

In Junot Diaz’s “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” the two characters Yunior and Oscar go through similar challenges as they mature and grow older. As they grow older the novel expresses the achievement of maturation through certain events that unfold throughout the novel....

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz narrates the life of a Dominican-American overweight nerd, Oscar de Leon. As it follows Oscar till his death, it also recounts the experiences of living under Trujillo’s dictatorship. However, what also takes the shape of...

Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which fosters the theme of alienation and dislocation of the previous culture in the context of globalization with the panorama and domination of west culture. The beginning of the novel poses the identity issue of the...