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Junot Diaz's Drown Analysis

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A Love That Destroys As I began reading Junot Diaz’s Drown, I noticed the repetitive nature of violence in the first few chapters itself. Yunior, who seems to be the narrator and the main character, has a innocent outlook towards life around him in the first chapter. His older brother, Rafa is way too violent and sexually driven for a twelve year old boy, and it makes me wonder, how Yunior would grow up to be. As of the first chapter, as a reader I can still see the innocence of a child. It gives me hope that maybe Yunior turns out to be better man. It gives me hope that he won’t repeat the same mistakes the people around him keep making. However, to my disappointment, that is not how the story turns out. Once I was done reading chapter 3,
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