Junot Diaz writes a short story involving multiple ideas and plotlines which makes an interesting development. These ideas involve social classes, cultural differences for those who leave their home country, epidemic outbreaks/zombies, and of course, chasing a girl out of reach. Diaz executes these ideas in a much different way than usual. He begins with introducing the main subject of the story which is the bacteria affecting the people, and then jumps to describing his love life, or lack of. The reader is introduced to the beginning of the narrator’s experience with the situation happening around him. This is also where the reader sees the pattern of changing back and forth between his endeavors with Mysty and the epidemic taking over. …show more content…
Diaz does this by making the narrator from a more middle class type background and putting him together with a highly upper class character. This gives him experience in both areas, therefore, making him able to discuss the ridiculous amount of wealth Alex has and portraying from a more realistic perspective. This exploits the class divide between the rich and the poor and how extreme that gap is and that relates to society now and it especially relates to the American economic system. These messages are subtly put into the text and creates the theme without blatantly exposing it. Other messages like the cultural difference between native latinos and those who leave their home country to go to America. The narrator mentions this quite a few times throughout the text and it is very relatable for latinos who are mixed with American or move to America. I related to the text when he mentioned this because, although my Spanish is decent, I struggle sometimes finding the right words. Our ways in America are very much different than how they live in Peru and finding that balance of my Peruvian culture and my American ways is sometimes difficult. I really identified with the narrator in that