The Brief Wondrous Life Character Analysis

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In the book, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, three main characters were introduced, Oscar, Lola, and Belicia. There was also a hidden main character, La Inca who is Belicia’s aunt. Lola is Oscar’s older sister; Belicia is the mother of both Oscar and Lola. In this book, we could change an old saying a little bit, “Like mother like daughter”. Even though as we read along the book, we could clearly sense that Belicia is not a good mother and that Lola doesn’t appreciate what Belicia does. There are plenty of evidence showing us how these two characters resemble each other.
They both are strong and independent women. Belicia was a tough kid even when she was in school. “By the end of her second quarter, Beli could walk down the hall without fear that anyone would crack on her” (83). This sentence shows us how tough Belicia was. We could infer from the sentence that kids picked on her in the beginning, but Belicia wasn’t easily defeated. In this way, Lola echoes her mother’s life. Even though Lola once became a punk girl which was not widely accepted in the neighborhood, no one dared to do anything physical to her. Belicia raised both kids on her …show more content…
They knew what they wanted and they didn’t need anyone to manipulate their lives. They were both pretty, attractive, and rebellious in nature. There could be another mirror image that I hope to find an answer in the later chapters. La Inca was such an important character in the book because she was the connection of the past and present, and she could have been the changing point of the characters. When Lola was with La Inca, did she transformed or was she still a bad girl? If she transformed, then it would not be a mirror image. If she didn’t, then there could be a chance that her life echoes her mother’s life, for she failed to succeed in school and ended up making a living as a waitress just as her mother
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