The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Wao is a novel that raised many controversy of whether or not it should read to high school students. The novel introduces Oscar a young Dominican man living in America trying to find love, Oscar is a nerdy unattractive male who lives with his mother and sister Lola. He faces many struggles and he believes that he is cursed, however as much downs there are Oscar doesn’t give up on finding love, on the way to his path the story unfolds on violence, bullying, derogatory language, female sexual objectification and many issues that parents don’t want their kids to be exposed to. However as much as the novel seemed to be raising controversy it should still be read to high school students. There is a great chance that many students are exposed to many of the things that occur in the novel, also the novel can raise important discussion among students and…show more content… “I had my job and the gym and my boys and my novia and of course I had my slutties” (Diaz 172) It is very true that the book revolves around many scenarios in which sexual objectification takes place, however using this example can teach students of how wrong sexual objectification is, instead of avoiding the novel, real life issues and not being educated on important life issues. The youth of this generation is quick to change how society is formed. If the youth comes together and gets educated about the issues that are going on then society can have a much postive outlook. Throughout the novel Yunni does give the message that he sexaully objectifies girls, "Like two girls in one: the skinniest upper-body married to a pair of Cadillac hips and an ill donkey," (Diaz 168) However even though he seems to be misogynistic students can have open discussions on how to not be like him, on how to deal with people who have a mindset from Yunni. Most of the readers can in fact learn from the
