In the story, “The Cheater’s Guide To Love” by Junot Diaz, the main theme focuses on how calamitous a heartbreak can be on a person’s physical health. Yunior, the main character and antagonist of the story, faces the emotional aftermath of a breakup that results in his physical traumas. As the years progress throughout the story, the emotional distress that Yunior endures continues to worsen. Diaz uses this emotional distress to argue that the disaster of a tragedy, in this situation a heartbreak, can truly impact an individual’s physical health; therefore, the audience is able to view that the emotional distress from heartbreak can take a vast toll on a person’s physical health.
In the story, “The Cheater’s Guide To Love” by Junot Diaz,…show more content… During year three, after the break up, Yunior decides to take up running. He realizes that he must get his act together and that includes getting serious about his health, as he has gained forty five pounds. Yunior begins running over six times a week and even twice in a day. All this running acting as a masquerade to cover up his pain, “Everytime you think about the ex, everytime the loneliness rears you up in you like a seething, burning continent, you tie on your shoes and hit the paths and that helps; it really does”(Diaz 11). There are many positive outcomes from running. Running burns calories, strengthens a person’s core, and even challenges the muscles of the lower body. Unfortunately, too much running or running with improper form or foot wear can make a natural healthy exercise into a negative result for an individual’s body. During Yunior’s sixth month of running, he begins to feel a searing pain in his foot. He decides to go to the doctors, where the doctor tells him that he has developed plantar fasciitis. According To Heal That Pain, a website providing diagnosis and symptoms of diseases states, “For others, running can cause additional damage to the plantar fasciitis ligament, worsening the condition, or cause such excruciating…show more content… As the years progress throughout the story, the emotional distress that Yunior endures continues to worsen. Diaz uses this emotional distress to argue that heartbreak can truly impact an individual’s physical health. The audience therefore is able to view that the emotional distress from heartbreak can take a vast toll on a person’s physical health. The author does an exceptional job to adequately express the emotions of Yunior, portraying his trials of heartache and devastating loss. Overall, these examples clearly state that the emotional distress from heartbreak can result in physical trauma, while also causing the reader to assess and contemplate the consequences that cheating can have on one’s emotional and physical wellbeing and that of the person cheated
