Summary: The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao

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A ghetto nerd who can never find a girl until he reaches his grave, a punk chick who found nobody on her side but herself. Is this the fukú that Columbus had brought to this land hundreds of years ago? And what is this fukú phrase, a mysterious curse from the other dimension? Or rather, the inequality and discrimination that had inherited from generations to generations? In the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by using a Dystopian narrative of the protagonist Oscar, Díaz had revealed the other side of an overly praised immigration concept in order to ask his audience to actively change this situation of racial inequality and discrimination existed in the United States.
Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey as a immigrant. Based on the information found on grade saver website. We know that his family had lived in the poor part of New Jersey and was mainly populated by Dominicans. After graduating from high school, Junot Díaz went to Rutgers University and earned his Bachelor’s degree in History and Literature. What is interesting is that in Díaz’s own webpage, he did not mentioned the ‘grew up in a Dominican community’ thing. Rather, he wrote all the rewards he had in writing and his career at MIT. Although Díaz did not mention his growing up experiences in his web page, he did …show more content…
This is the decision Díaz had made to emphasize his argument that most immigrants are not having a great life in this land. We can also get some clue based on his diction ‘all’ in the interview that it was not about individuals at all. The issue is more broad than people will think it
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