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A Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao Summary

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Trujillo’s Absolute Power And Oscar’s Family. A book named “A Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao” narrated stories of Oscar and his family members in Dominican Republic or DR. This book revealed the Dominican’s cultures at that time including the era of Trujillo. Trujillo was mentioned in chapter five of a book, which is a story of Abelard, Oscar’s grandfather. Trujillo was a main factor of Abelard’s family devastation. He turned a famous doctor who had a perfect life and family to the worst and tragedy because of Abelard was not a loyal supporter. His power frighten people around Dominican Republic like Sauron in Mordor.
Trujillo was a dictator who wanted to rule everything in Dominican Republic. Literally, he wanted to control everything including people’s thought. People who disagree or set themselves against him would end with tragedy. “The Reign of Trujillo was not the best time to be a …show more content…

His anxiety made him depressed and sick, but he didn’t sent his beloved daughter to another country. Everything started from that Abelard refused to take his daughter to Trujillo’s party. “His porcine eyes narrowed. So I see, he said coldly, and then dismissed Abelard with a flick of his wrist” (Diaz 232). After this situation, Abelard was threatened by Trujillo brutally. Abelard was convicted to be in prison for 18 years while his wife, Socorro, was pregnant his third child, Beli, who became mother of Oscar and Lola. Socorro dead from car accident but Beli survived. Jackie and her sister, Astrid, were separated and adopted by their relatives, but finally they dead. Jackie found drown in a pool and still don’t know why she did that because she got accepted from school of medicine in France and about to leave. Astrid was assassinated while she was in a church. Beli was been many places and finally found by La Inca. a 9-year-old Beli was burned in Azul, her life was very

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