The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao Summary

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The ‘’Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao’’ is a novel written by Junto Diaz, a Dominican Republic native writer who moved to New Jersey at the age of 6 years old. According to his autobiography, Junto was bone in December 31, 1968, in Santo Domingo the capital city of Dominica. He earned Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University and his Master of Arts from Cornell University. He teaches at MIT in Massachusetts. He has put his own make on the literature by writing servers stories like; Drown, This is how you lose her, and also received the Pulitzer Prize-Winning for his navel, The Brief Wondrous life of Oscar Woa. He is a fiction editor for Boston Review. Junto Diaz is a very good creative writer. In his book The Brief Wondrous …show more content…

He is an author who knows how to create protagonist in a story. The protagonist can also be called the main character, they center the story. He also knows how to make the protagonist more interesting. Oscar Wao was an interesting character in this novel. In an interview with Noah Charney, Junot was asked how he came up with the name for this novel. He answer was, ‘’actually the title came first! One day in Mexico City I was at a party. Something there said Oscar Wao. But with a Chilango accent. He had said Oscar Wilde but it sound like Oscar Wao, as soon as he said that, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao jumped in to my head.’’ This show how creative he is as an author. He creates a narrator for all his books and calls him Yunior. Over all, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a very good novel, with an interesting story about the life of Oscar Wao, the life-long- dictator of Dominica Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina and the fuku curse which has hunted them for generation. The author of the novel is Junot Diaz. He was born in Dominica and migrated to United State by the age of 6. While in USA, Junot study fine art in college and became a very good creative