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What is the purpose and effect of the narration in the story?
Contributes just as much as the context to to the text’s function and message.
- Back and forth between: characters, time, space, narrative person
- Mix between english and spanish
Family's disgraces
Confusing timeline: Long history of suffering
Multiculturalism
Yunior
Contrasting identities
Readers: conflicted feelings towards this narrator
"The Watcher"
“Usually just some cackles and a stray “Hey, fat-ass.”
The best one I heard? Look, Mom, that guy’s taking his planet out for a run”
&
I can’t lie: first couple of times I
almost laughed
1st and 2nd person
Feminine perspective
Keeps readers interested- addressing them directly
1. Oscar
2. Lola
3. Beli
4. Abelard
Diaz moves backward in the family history and each new character shows a continuation of the curse.
1
Provides more historical context of Dominican culture.
Raises importance to each of the stories:- Trujillo's dictatorhip
Maintaining the novel’s humor
BUT
It is not academic or dry
“You didn’t realize we were occupied twice in the 20th Century? Don’t worry, when you have kids, they won’t know that the U.S. occupied Iraq, either.”
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Novel’s changing style and structure in its narration
Oscar's and other's lack of direction due to Fukú
Dominican family's disgraces in a terrible historical context and transition to american culture:
Diaz skillfully tackles the theme of migrant experience