“Dominican community, one of the longest, most damaging U.S. backed dictatorships in the Western Hemisphere”.(Diaz3)

“Tu ta llorando por una muchacha?”(Diaz 14)

“If he landed on Route 18 it would have been lights out forever”.(191)

Oscar is a nerdy, overweight kid from the Dominican living in New Jersey and struggles with loneliness. Oscar meets Yunior the narrator. Yunior become...

Oscar is a nerdy, overweight kid from the Dominican living in New Jersey and struggles with loneliness. Oscar meets Yunior the narrator. Yunior become...

Oscar is a nerdy, overweight kid from the Dominican living in New Jersey and struggles with loneliness. Oscar meets Yunior the narrator. Yunior become...

Oscar is a nerdy, overweight kid from the Dominican living in New Jersey and struggles with loneliness. Oscar meets Yunior the narrator. Yunior become...

Oscar is a nerdy, overweight kid from the Dominican living in New Jersey and struggles with loneliness. Oscar meets Yunior the narrator. Yunior become...

ksmith27, What I see is your character is struggling if anyone in their family has a problem it becomes their problem. My story is a little different ...

eberube27, Your response Is interesting our characters are pretty similar. My character also doesn't have many people to support him.

sgolob27, This is very interesting, because my book is nothing like that. My book does not have genocide.

iadams27, I noticed in your response that you talked about your characters moving to the U.S., can you give more information about how and why this ha...

In the Novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" By Junot Díaz. Oscars family is pretty wealthy and are from the Dominican, "Because in house days ...