The Brief

Wondrous of
BY: JUNOT
OscarDIAZ Wao
 Learning objectives:
Oscar Wao is a person who wants to marry
a pretty girl but in his fat, dorky and
unattractive look the girls wouldnt marry
him nor will be his girlfriend. Oscar Wao
always meet pretty girl but every girl that
he meets is always have a boyfriend,
Oscar died because he returned to the
Dominican Republican country where he
was beaten so hard because of a girl
named Ybon. We learned that we dont
need to covet the person who is married
or who have a boyfriend nor a girlfriend,
just wait for the right time and that time
will come.
 About the Author

-brief biography
Name: Junot Diaz
born:
is December
aDominican 31, 1968
American writer,
creative writing professor at
Country: United States of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
America
(MIT), and fiction editor at
Boston Review. He also serves on the
board of advisers for Freedom
University, a volunteer organization in
Georgia that provides post-secondary
instruction to undocumented
immigrants.Central to Daz's work is
He is a2012 MacArthur Fellow Born in
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Daz
immigrated with his family to New Jersey when he
was six years old. He earned aBachelor of Arts
degree fromRutgers University, and shortly after
graduating created the character "Yunior", who
served as narrator of several of his later books.
After obtaining hisMFAfromCornell University,
Daz published his first book, the 1995 short story
collectionDrown. In 2007, he published his first
novel,The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,
followed in 2012 by a second short story
collection,This Is How You Lose Her. Since 2007,
Diaz was reported to be working on another
novel, entitledMonstro; however, in June 2015
Diaz stated that he had effectively abandoned
that novel.
 Daz was born in Santo
Domingo, Dominican
Republic.He was the third
child in a family of five.
Throughout most of his early
childhood, he lived with his
mother and grandparents
while his father worked in the
United States. Daz
immigrated toParlin
, New Jersey, in December
 Daz attended Madison Park
Elementaryand was a voracious
reader, often walking four miles in
order to borrow books from his
public library. At this time Daz
became fascinated with
apocalyptic films and books,
especially the work of
John Christopher, the original
Planet of the Apesfilms, and the
BBCmini-seriesEdge of Darkness.
Daz graduated from Cedar Ridge
Picture
(picture of literary works)
 Characters
Protagonist Antagonist
Oscar capitn
Yunior Trujillo/fuku
Lola society
Aldo Grundy and Grud
Belicia
Ai
miggs
Protagonist Antagonist
Jenni Muoz
Ybn
Nataly
Nena Inca
Beli
Abelard
 Theme:
Cultural identity, politics, and poverty are all important
themes inOscar Wao, particularly when the setting
shifts to the Dominican Republic. But they all take a
seat to the novels main theme: love. The problem of
finding love flows through this story from beginning to
end. Oscar is driven to find love as much as Yunior,
who is able to have multiple sexual partners but seems
incapable of fulfilling his need for love. Beli, Oscars
mother, looked for love most of her life. She just looked
in the wrong places. Her love for her children is shown
in her strong desire to help them turn out better than
she did. Her love comes out sounding ugly, at times,
but its unmistakably present.
Lola appears to seek love less than the other
characters. She loves adventure, though; and she loves
Oscar, though it is a distant love at times. Then there is
La Inca, whose love is completely unconditional, as she
gives it over and over again no matter how many times
it turns and smacks her in the face.
On the other side of love is the theme of brutality.

This comes from political policy, jealous lovers, social

interactions, and even from inside some of the
characters. Brutal thoughts, like those of suicide,
form a strong presence in Oscars life. Also brutal is
Oscars lack of self-preservation when he blatantly
courts his prostitute friend Ybn. Could he have
avoided his death, or was he brutally careless with
his life?
 Pl
Exposition
Oscar Wao is a fat, dorky and unattractive.
He likes to live with some pretty girls

ot
Complication
Oscar Wao doesn't know how to date a

girl
 Pl
Climax/ resolution
Oscar Wao is
taken into the
cane field
being beaten.

ot
Crisis Denouement
Oscar Wao returned to
Domanican Republican and
Taken to a cane and
shot by Two men
Who work closely
with the capitan
 Point of View
(who tells the story and how it is told)
First person
Second person

Third person

Narrator

Omniscient
 Setting
Place
Paterson, New Jersey
Time
Santo Domingo
Weather condition
Rutgers University

Wildwood, New Jersey

Social condition
Palacio Peking
Cane
MoodField
or Atmosphere
New Brunswick
Don Bosco Tech.
La Capital
Washington
 Time
1974-1987
1982-1985
One week
1955-1962
1988-1992
Previous year
Soon after
Before
Next year
In the beginning

Last days
Begins
18 years
1992-1995
After three years
Night
Twenty seven days
At the end of twenty seven days
After oscars death
A year after oscars death
Eight month after Oscar died
 Weather condition

N/A
 Social condition

N/A
 Mood or Atmosphere
Angry

Sad

Discriminate
 Con
Human Vs. Human
N/A

flict
Human Vs. Nature
N/A
 Tone
(emotion of the character)
Happy
Sad
Dramatic
Lonely
Mad
Jealous
Crying
depressed
 Challenges/difficulties
in
making slides show presentation

The difficulty of making the power point slide or

presentation is about understanding the
meanings the given topic.
 Prepared by:
John Vrian Pacaldo
Florence Dale Tinoy
Eric Cris Dandasan
Lyndon Serato
Nio Edrian Sabayanan
Necha Lebrada
Leanne Camille Garra
Thank You!!