One of the passages I found difficult are, “But the fukú ain’t just ancient history, a ghost story from the past with no power to scare. In my parents’ day the fukú was real as shit, something your everyday person could believe in. Everybody knew someone who’d been eaten by a fukú, just like everybody knew somebody who worked up in the Palacio. It was in the air, you could say, though, like all the most important things on the Island, not something folks really talked about. But in those elder days, fukú had it good; it even had a hypeman of sorts, a high priest, you could say: Our then dictator-for-life Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina. No one knows whether Trujillo was the Curse’s…” I didn’t understand this passage and what it was telling me because I don’t know what a fuku is. I think the author is trying to tell me that a fuku is something everyone believed in, it has good and bad deeds.