The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao written by Junot Díaz bases of a curse known as the fukú. In the novel the characters revolve around an extreme belief that the fukú manages their lives, especially in Oscar’s life. Oscar, a Dominican boy, changes his life negatively by failing the Dominican lifestyle for several years until dying with an achievement. A ‘typical’ Dominican guy would be able to get girls and by accomplishing that he would gain respect. When Oscar was young, he was confident in reaching the Dominican lifestyle and were respected. Until suffering from a breakup that made changes in his life forcing him to take different actions, attitudes, and values as he grows older.
In the beginning, Oscar chose to date two girls at the same time— only lasting a week before he gets heartbroken. Afterwards, he changes his perspective about life by doing negative choices. First, he lets himself down by not caring about his physical looks and becomes overweight and unattractive, “Over the couple years he grew fatter and fatter. Early adolescence hit him especially hard, scrambling his face into nothing you could call cute, splotching his skin with zits, making him self-conscious” (Díaz 16). By gaining weight made him further from accomplishing the Dominican lifestyle since no girl will want to date him. Second, Oscar kept trying to get a girl to fall for him which continues to fail especially hardly when he meets Jenni. She was a girl from college whom Oscar fell in love