After reading “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” I was confused at the first paragraph when it was talking about the admiral. The writer didn’t mention the admiral’s name because “to say his name aloud or even to hear it is to invite calamity on the heads of you and yours.”( End of the 1st paragraph, pg 1). I’m thinking what he meant by ” ‘discovering’ The new world” (pg 1). How is it going to be relevant to finding who the admiral is going to be? Something that I’m also confused about is when the writer says “my paternal Abuelo believes that diaspora was Trujillo’s payback to the pueblo that betrayed him.”(pg 5) The only part that I got from this quote is the dictator got his revenge. Overall I think the whole time the writer was trying to emphasize ‘Fuku’. How it can help someone or destroy someone. One more thing that I’m thinking is Fuku similar to Karma? I would say for me the first passage is most difficult for me to understand. The rest of the passages seem like history telling with connecting how fuku was able to play a major role in those moments.