The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao By Junot Diaz

Past issues can affect the future by treating others badly. “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz, this character named Oscar has had a rough past and he doesn’t quite realize how he treats other because how horrible his past was. His mother Beli treated him badly as a kid, Oscar constantly got rejected by woman, and when he became a substitute teacher he got rejected by his students. Beli was a mother who didn’t take anything from anyone because that’s how she was raised; she was harsh to her kids Lola and Oscar, which changed Oscar for the worse. She expects a lot from her two children but she doesn’t show them because she doesn’t want to show them weakness, she’s a very harsh mother. She doesn’t like Oscar doing

The students in his school as a teacher were cruel to him as well, he tries to become a good guy by starting a sci-fi club but no one shows up. “Boys of all grades and dispositions shitted on him effusively. Students laughed when they spotted him in the halls.” Oscar getting rejected by these kids kind of reminded him of his past as well, when he was a kid he wouldn’t get along with anyone because of the way he looked and how he acted as well, Oscar has always had a terrible attitude because his mom didn’t treat him too nicely and then him always getting rejected by kids at school. As he got rejected as a substitute and a teacher he became more depressed and has had even more of an attitude with others. Reminding him of his childhood the future gets even more harder for him because he doesn’t think its ever going to

Muslims today get discriminated against because of past actions which would be 9/11. The Atlantic posts talk about Muslims being discriminated, “U.S. Muslims today, the most popular answers included “discrimination, racism, and prejudice.” Why most Americans treat Muslims the way they do is because of 9/11 and what happened with that one group did on American soil, in other peoples eye they think of them as all. What that one group of Muslims did affected how Americans view Muslims today. LGBT is another way how the future gets affected, in the 1900’s and the early 2000’s LGBT was not very accepted in society. ““I [homosexuality] am the love that dare not speak its name.” Homosexual men and women were given voice in 1897.” From 1897 to 2018 these people have been fighting for their rights for a very long time and as time progresses then their voice become much bigger. The past affected the future by the LGBT constantly standing up for what they believe in and that love should not separate anyone or anything. Another way the past affected the future is with African Americans, they stood up for what they believed in and that was getting their rights. “During Reconstruction, blacks took on leadership roles like never before. They held public office and sought legislative changes for equality and the right to vote.” African Americans tried their absolute best to get where they are today, in the late