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The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao Analysis

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In Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the image of Beli and Lola losing their virginities show how both characters believed that they found “love” but the men they lost their virginities with just used them for their bodies and sex, they did not truly love them. When Lola describes her experience she mentions, “...that hurt like hell, but the whole time I just said, Oh yes...because that was what I imagined you were supposed to say while you were losing your ‘virginity’ to some boy you thought you loved” (Díaz 64). This conveys how even though she was in pain while she was having intercourse, she put that aside because she thought she had true love and that was all that mattered at the time. With the phrase “some boy you thought you

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