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Fuku In The Prologue By Junot Diaz

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In the Prologue, Junot Diaz gives us an insight to fuku. According to Diaz, fuku is a curse that doomed the New World. Diaz states that "the arrival of Europeans on Hispaniola unleashed fuku on the world." Fuku is not just some ancient legend or myth, to the Dominicans, it was real and everybody believed in it. Fuku is generally bad fortune upon an individual, family, or country and it has the power to affect many generations of families.Diaz most likely introduced the idea of fuku to set up his novel in order to add a supernatural element to it. This supernatural element sets the basis for what the story will be focused around which is how fuku has been affecting Oscar and his family. Oscar de Leon is a nerdy, overweight Dominican kid
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