The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

The author of the story is Junot Diaz. The setting of the story is in New Jersey and the Dominican Republic. The novel begins with the narrator’s description of the curse, called fukú americanus—a curse of doom, specifically that of the New World. It was brought over to the islands of Antilles when the Europeans…

Are we who we say we are, or are we who society recognizes us to be? In reality we are who society says we are regardless of our qualifications. Everyone has different personalities and they are trying to show their peers how they want to be identified though society most of the time disagrees. W….