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Summary Of The Brief Life Of Oscar Wao

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Has life ever been so horrible that you thought it was out of your control? Your life could start off wonderful, as you grow instead of life getting better everything just gets worse and worse. In The Brief LIfe of Oscar Wao, Diaz argues that the supernatural, specifically, the Dominican Republic, curse “Fuku” is present in individuals lives; he conveys this argument through Oscar and Beli’s encounters with the Mongoose. Beli and Oscar’s encounters with the Mongoose are examples of the presence of the supernatural, arguably "fuku," in their lives and the effect that fuku has on them. Beli is the first character to encounter the Mongoose; she sees it when she gets beat up for her affair with the Gangster, who is married to Trujillo’s sister. …show more content…

Oscar was complaining about how he was in the life he didn’t want to be in, “Fuku. The Darkness. Some mornings he would wake up and not be able to get out of bed. Like he had a ten-ton weight on his chest. Like he was under acceleration forces.” (268) Fuku messed with his life so much that he couldn’t get up, which was why he was so fat and he couldn’t lose the weight. Whenever Oscar wanted to change he went back to the state he used to be in. In his second encounter he saw the mongoose in a dream, “Oscar remembers having a dream where a mongoose was chatting with him. Except the mongoose was the Mongoose. What will it be, muchacho? It demanded. More or less?” (301) Now Oscar saw that the mongoose asked him how his life was going to turn out. Oscar was in so much pain after the beating he got, since the mongoose spoke to him he was going to say that he didn't want any more pain, but he remembered how his life was when he was younger: he thought that to change he had to keep on going and live with …show more content…

After he was trying to recover from the beating he got from the Capitan, he heard someone else who was trying to talk to him, but he couldn't hear a word that they were trying to say to him, “All that remained was the image of an Aslan-like figure with golden eyes who kept trying to speak to him but Oscar couldn’t hear a word above the blare of the merengue coming from the neighbor’s house.” (302) He saw the that the mongoose was trying to talk to him, but with all the noise around him he couldn't understand a thing that the mongoose was trying to say to him. At the end when Oscar was about to give up his life he saw all his family in the bus and then he saw the mongoose who was about to drive, “They drove past a bus stop and for a second Oscar imagined he saw his whole family getting in the guagua, even his poor dead abuelo and his poor dead abuela, and who is driving the bus but the Mongoose, and who is the cobrador but the Man Without a Face, but it was nothing but a final fantasy. (321) Oscar went to the point where he didn't want to suffer anymore, so he gave his life up to end up all the suffering. He went back to the cane fields were him and his mother suffered and both saw the mongoose. Oscar wanted to end the curse on his family, he thought that by him dying their family curse

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