Summary Of 'How To Date A Brown Girl, White Girl And Halfie'

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“How to Date a Brown girl, Black girl, White girl, and Halfie” by Junot Diaz came across to me as a handbook for teenage boys dating an ethnicity of girls. The boy in the book uses comments from other people to determine what and what not to do around certain kinds of teenage girls. The narrator is a Hispanic teenager. His tone is confidence and reassurance. The language he uses is filled with informal English some Spanish he tries to throw in. The reason behind the use of Spanish language is to impress girls even though his Spanish is not well. He comes off has very masculine, like most men, but underneath all of it he is pride less. To add credibility to the story, the narrator mentions “government cheese” which may imply that they

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