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Theme Of Generalization And Identity In Junto Diaz's Drown '

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In Junto Díaz’s book, “Drown”, the effect of No Face’s single story turning into Ysreal’s humanized struggle is to show when hearing an adjective, there’s a thought of a specific title that summarizes whatever is presented as one object; but when giving that object a name, there is a deeper analyzation and an identity is created. Displayed in the first chapter of Drown, “Ysreal”, numerous examples providing the generalization of the No Face adjective are exposed, telling the horrific story of an monster with no identity. Many facts are learned about No Face but none of those facts included his name (other than the title) or his best attributes, they were all hideous and bluntly exposed physical traumas and actions No Face did or what had happened to him. Those were the …show more content…

Ysreal’s story was told as he was followed every second of the day, exposing every single unique, strenuous and buoyant detail of his life; there was no opportunity for generalization. There were too many traits that attached to who he truly was that he didn’t have the option to be a single adjective. Additionally, throughout the chapter there were certain thoughts he had that were bolded and capitalized to show that, despite his well-known title “No Face”, he had a voice. Ysreal feels, imagines and dreams deeper than half of the characters in this book, “He runs past the water hose and the pasture, and then he says FLIGHT and jumps up…’- ‘He watches for opportunities from corners, away from people. He has his power of INVISIBILITY and no one can touch him’- ‘The fat boy with the single eyebrow sits on his chest and his breath flies out of him’…’He says STRENGTH and the fat boy flies off him…” (153-156). In addition to the perseverance that is also shown, he has a crisp shard of optimism that is hidden in his words that keep him a child, regardless of the harsh jabs of heinous

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