Assignment :2 The novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” depicts a family’s struggle in obtaining and maintaining love. Often, when love is obtained, it turns their world into one of brutality. Towards the end, the novel’s protagonist, Oscar, dies, but not until realizing that love was worth the wait. Junot Diaz’s dramatic novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” uses Oscar’s demise to emphasize how love and brutality go hand in hand and how death can signify a new legacy. The string of doomed love begins with Abelard, Oscar’s grandfather. Abelard had everything anyone could want, but his curse was Jackie, his highly attractive daughter. The author states, “Those were more innocent times, and she was an innocent girl; getting raped by their Illustrious President was the furthest thing from her excellent mind.” (Diaz 218) Abelard wanted to impede this from happening but his decision to hide Jackie ended up killing most of the Cabral family. Abelard’s love for his daughter ended up in his family’s death. He didn’t manage to accomplish his goal keep his family safe, therefore their deaths are in vain. Beli, Oscar’s mother, often was a victim of violence when it came to matters of love. The book states, “They killed my bebe, they tried to kill me-“(Diaz 153) Beli was living a forbidden romance with the gangster and it only lead to the demise of her baby and almost her own death too. Beli yearned for an everlasting love with the gangster, but her love nearly ended up killing her. Beli, like Abelard, failed to reach their goal and suffered the consequences because of it. Towards the end, in a delayed letter, Oscar reveals his new found feelings towards life. “He wrote: So this is what everybody’s always talking about! Diablo! If only I’d know. The beauty! The beauty!” (Diaz 335) All his life, Oscar had always felt; unloved, alone, useless, and a waste of a person. Oscar spent most of his life in search for love, many a times he became disillusioned with life itself and would ponder on suicidal thoughts and actions. One day, after years of searching he finds someone who corresponds to his love. After being able to live his dream of love with Ybon, Oscar comes to realize that all the years spent in his quest for love were worth the moments he was living with Ybon now. Oscar knew his upcoming death was inevitable but finally finding and being able to live out his love erased all the years of loveless brutality and violence he and those his past ancestors faced. Oscar was the only character that did accomplish his goal even though he ended up dying for it. He died in the name of love. In the novel, “The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” the reader learns that love and and violence are linked like cause and effect. Love, can bring violence, and violence can bring love. Even though at first it may seem that violence is dominate, at the end, love will be able to be grand enough to make the violence surrounding it worth it.
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The novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” depicts a family’s struggle in obtaining and maintaining love. Often, when love is obtained, it turns their world into one of brutality. Towards the end, the novel’s protagonist, Oscar, dies, but not until realizing that love was worth the wait. Junot Diaz’s dramatic novel, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” uses Oscar’s demise to emphasize how love and brutality go hand in hand and how death can signify a new legacy.
The string of doomed love begins with Abelard, Oscar’s grandfather. Abelard had everything anyone could want, but his curse was Jackie, his highly attractive daughter. The author states, “Those were more innocent times, and she was an innocent girl; getting raped by their Illustrious President was the furthest thing from her excellent mind.” (Diaz 218) Abelard wanted to impede this from happening but his decision to hide Jackie ended up killing most of the Cabral family. Abelard’s love for his daughter ended up in his family’s death. He didn’t manage to accomplish his goal keep his family safe, therefore their deaths are in vain. Beli, Oscar’s mother, often was a victim of violence when it came to matters of love. The book states, “They killed my bebe, they tried to kill me-“(Diaz 153) Beli was living a forbidden romance with the gangster and it only lead to the demise of her baby and almost her own death too. Beli yearned for an everlasting love with the gangster, but her love nearly ended up killing her. Beli, like Abelard, failed to reach their goal and suffered the consequences because of it. Towards the end, in a delayed letter, Oscar reveals his new found feelings towards life. “He wrote: So this is what everybody’s always talking about! Diablo! If only I’d know. The beauty! The beauty!” (Diaz 335) All his life, Oscar had always felt; unloved, alone, useless, and a waste of a person. Oscar spent most of his life in search for love, many a times he became disillusioned with life itself and would ponder on suicidal thoughts and actions. One day, after years of searching he finds someone who corresponds to his love. After being able to live his dream of love with Ybon, Oscar comes to realize that all the years spent in his quest for love were worth the moments he was living with Ybon now. Oscar knew his upcoming death was inevitable but finally finding and being able to live out his love erased all the years of loveless brutality and violence he and those his past ancestors faced. Oscar was the only character that did accomplish his goal even though he ended up dying for it. He died in the name of love.
In the novel, “The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” the reader learns that love and and violence are linked like cause and effect. Love, can bring violence, and violence can bring love. Even though at first it may seem that violence is dominate, at the end, love will be able to be grand enough to make the violence surrounding it worth it.