The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

While reading ā€œThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Waoā€ by Junot Diaz I was confused with what the author believed. Does he believe in the ā€œfukuā€ curse/doom or is he trying to prove some other point? For example, Diaz states ā€œIn my parentsā€™ day the fuku was real as shit, something your everyday person could believe inā€ (2). Diaz shows that people in his life believed in fuku; it was a common occurrence. I do not know if he himself truly believes in fuku or not. If he doesnā€™t, then I believe that he uses fuku as some sort of metaphor. Diaz says ā€œā€¦that whoever killed Trujillo, their family would suffer a fuku so dreadful it would make the one that attached itself to the Admiral jojote in comparisonā€ (3). Is the fuku a metaphor for the fate or reaction that would happen as a result of the murder of Trujillo? If not then I still found this piece of writing very entertaining. Itā€™s not as professional as most pieces that I have read. The way Diaz speaks alone makes me create him as a character in my mind instead of just reading someoneā€™s boring lecture. The topic was very interesting. At first I read the whole passage with the view that everything that Diaz said was literal. I found it hard to find something difficult to pick out from it so I started to nitpick at it.

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