While I was reading the excerpt The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao about what a “Fukú” is I had difficulty understanding the passage where the author states, “Everybody in Santo Domingo has a fukú story knocking around in their family. I have a twelve-daughter uncle in the Cibao who believed that he’d been cursed by an old lover never to have male children. Fukú. I have a tía who believed she’d been denied happiness because she’d laughed at a rival’s funeral. Fukú.”. This excerpt confused me because I thought fukú was a specific curse of doom that was given to anyone who went against Trujillo. Here the curse is given to people who had nothing to do with said person.
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When we do a difficulty paper again, try to expand a bit more. So, if this is the case, that this person had nothing to do with Trujillo, what does this tell you about the Fuku? Can you say a bit more? (this is a little short!)