Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Essay

throughout the novel the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Yunior tells the story of oscars family that is allegedly unredeemed by the Fuku. The friar preacher family that roots back to when Trujillo was in male monarch has been tragical ensnareed by the Fuku. The main character Oscar is an awkward friar preacher that balms his failures on the curse of the Fuku. The curse started back in the Dominican republic when the authoritarian dictator Trujillo convicted oscars grandfather Abelard who was a respected doctor for conspiracy. When oscars grandfather was typeset in jail he was tortured and beaten, this was the origin of the curse for the Waos. standardized a gene the curse has been passed down the family to oscar. The author Junot Diaz uses the motif of the Fuku to deck how bani allows her awful olden to dramatically affect her and children.E veryone that lived in the Dominican was in some way negatively effected by Trujillo. Oscar Wao was a maintenance example of the fuk u and how not only Trujillo effected the dominican people of his magazine but all the same the people two generations later. For example (p.5)wether I call up in what humansy have described as the great American doom is not really the maneuver. You live as long as I did in the heart of Fuku country, you hear these kinds of tales all the cartridge holder everybody in san domingo has a Fuku story knocking around in their family. Yunior is expressing the fact that even if you are not a believer of the Fuku curse if you are dominican there is a good chance it has affected you or your family.When oscars take was left an orphan she was put through unbelievably awful peck much like her fathers. This time in Banis life effect who she became and how she parented Oscar.(78)From 1951 on, hija and madre running their famous bakery near the plaza underlying and keeping their fading, airless house in tip-top shape. (before 1951, our orphan female child had lived with another(prenominal) foster family, monsterous people if the rumors are to be believed, a Stygian period of her life neither she nor her madre ever referenced. Their very own pagina en blanco). This quotation refers to how oscars mother was effected by the Fuku. The reason she was an orphan was because Trujillo killed her parents. The events of her childhood were a direct result of Trujillo but Bani had the power to put the past in the past and parent Oscar the right way, because Bani did not do this the Fuku lives on. many an(prenominal) times in the book a Wao has been injured almost to the point of death. Once was when Oscar attempted suicide. Oscars Suicide attempt was not just because he lost the first girl he has ever making loved it was too because of how Oscar had almost no self esteem. Even his own mother would asperse him from a young age. The suicide attempt went wrong and Oscar survived to live another day. (p.191) Except that this one of the garden dividers that they planted shrubs on and he concern the freshly tilled loam and not the concrete.Because he hit the fresh loam he survived with many harsh injures instead of plummeting to his death as planned. This was an incident in Oscar Waos life that was a result of his failures like his failure to love or be loved. This failure stems back to how his mother raised him with very tough love because of the her childhood.The novel clearly illustrated how the Fuku has effected all Dominican people even if they had immigrated off the island. To me this novel is not about dominican people and there history it is about how only one man effected millions of lives not only in one point it time but for generations to come. Junot Diaz shows the reader how we all have the power to stop abominable things like the Fuku from effecting the next generation but you must have the power to leave the past in the past.