Themes In Junot Diaz's This Is How You Lose Her

Yuny and his wife are wearing fashionable wigs due to their high religious position. Also traces of black linning appear on the wigs. Yuny’s hair is shorter than his wife’s, his hair ends by his shoulders, while his wife’s hair ends just above her breasts. One the back of the chair where they are seated, there are two scenes that provide ancient Egyptian affection and remembrance among family generations. The upper register contains Yuny and his wife Renenutet receive offerings from their son and in the lower register, Yuny’s wife offers food and drink to her

As an accomplice to this task Yunior seems horrified but does nothing to fix this mistake. He follows along with this because he felt like he was roped into it without his consent even though he had a choice in it all along. With no one else in his life to guide him he goes and follows with whoever he feels he has a personal connection

His mother is always busy due to her work schedule and she does not pay attention to him when she arrives home. His older brother takes care of him, but also as a sibling he does not respect him and beats him up to straight certain situations in order. Throughout the book, Yunior

This article helps demonstrate how psychiatric problems are what lead teens down the wrong path, such as making wrong decisions in your life. Not only did Lorena make bad decisions but so did Julia after her sister died. Julia begins cutting herself and “turns out [she suffers] from severe depression and anxiety” (Sanchez 219). In this novel we see how much a loss of a loved one affects a teeanger more than a little kid, because teenagers are older and more aware of what they are capable of

Alvarez unfolds how Trujillo impacted her mother in a chronological order in a revealing way. Alvarez explains at first that her mother adores Trujillo. It was the way of life for the Dominican Republic people. She was raised to be this way in a life of her eyes revolving around this dictator who showed to be really good, but was not good at all. An example of a false representation of the dictator is Stalin or Hitler.

We see the husband’s supernatural abilities in the story, as he is able to transform into trees and was able to recover the wife back to her original form after she was cut in half. We can see the husband possesses these respected traits, and as a result of following these values, he is rewarded. By contrast, these values show the opposing qualities that were considered harmful to society, like selfishness, which we

By the end he is a true man and is a person that does what is right for his family. The reason why this is important is because this shows that events that transpire in a person’s life affect how that person will be shaped. People can change for the better based on their experiences in the

No one lives alone in the world. From the beginning of life, we have someone around us. Watching and talking with our surroundings, we learn many important life lessons. Depending on the people who are around us, we will grow up differently because we interact each other and influence one’s personality. The Pulitzer Prize – winning author Junot Diaz depicts the pattern of human involvement in them in his novel, “This Is How You Lose Her”, shows the readers specific examples of their relationships.

On the other hand, Starving is another symbol that the writer uses to represent how the family feels about Papi. Papi is starving his family of affection and love, while they all seem to desire some of Papi’s love and affection Papi seem very distant from them. Yunior disapproves completely of his father’s affair by the vomiting when he gets in the van, a van his father got to impress his mistress. The van is a symbol of Papi’s affair and therefore Yunior dislikes the van. The reason he doesn’t tell his mom about the affair is because he wants his father to like him in part and in part because maybe he does not want to see his family split and to see his mom suffer.

Diaz believes that her brother doesn’t deserve her family support, but family supports each other at any moment in the life. For instance, Diaz state “my phone, come Deshacer a tus padres/ Jesus told me to, and Mon Frere”(34-35). The parents still believe that the brother can be different, but Diaz thinks that the brother just wants to separate her family. The family was getting affect by the bother, but they still are there for him.

Gustavo has an alcohol addiction problem. This has not only affected his relationship with his family members, but has also affected the functions of the family. The father now works had to pay his debts while he continues drinking. The family’s normal functioning is disrupted by full attention on him and worries about him (Reinaldo & Pillon,

The character Victor from the story “This Is What It Means To Say Phoenix, Arizona” has dealt with many turbulent situations in his life. First he loses his job at the BIA at the same time he finds out that his estranged father dies unexpectedly from a heart attack. Even though Victor has not seen his father in years the pain of his death was as real as being stung by a hive of wasps. Victor realized that even though this was a difficult time he had to be brave and go to Phoenix, Arizona to collect his father's remains. Money was tight so Victor had to get money from the Tribal Council to pay for his trip.

Julia Alvarez introduces Trujillo's vanity and obsession with examples of what he was doing while she was growing up. Julia Alvarez explains in the text how Trujillo "Vanity knew no bounds. " In the text it states how, " his uniforms were trimmed with tassels and gold epaulettes and red sashes.... all of this in a tropical country where men wore guayaberas."

Although his writing can be engaged to an audience who reads the situation the boy is encountering with his neighbors ,but to analyze themselves instead of another person. Therefore the intended purpose of this writing is to not analyze or criticize how a person live, but to analyze themselves , as they could be living their life differently such as being greedy. ”You should look at yourself. I mean really look at yourself ” .Therefore the author notifies the audience of the situation he was in throughout his life,through the use of emotional appeal using personal experiences in his life and humor

”(Rama in C.K., 122) Contrary to this is what Prasannamati Mataji had mentioned in The Nun’s Tale, “Jains, however, conceive of karma as a fine material substance that physically attaches itself to the soul, polluting and obscuring its potential for bliss by weighing it down with pride, anger, delusion and greed, and so preventing it from reaching it’s ultimate destination at the summit of the universe. ”(Dalrymple, 2009:10) Pride, anger delusion and greed all being causes of attachment. Buddhists believed karma to be a cause and effect situation for instance in The Monks Tale when Passang talks about ducks who make home and lay eggs near his house he says “my parents would warn me not to go near