Junot Diaz writes “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, a novel (fiction) that got lots of attention and popularity since 2007, when it is announced as one of the best books of that year according to the New York Times “ # 1 Fiction Book of the Year.”. Diaz views, in this novel, a different life phase of a young Dominican man; how different! In the way, if I am allowed to say, what we know about a typical Dominican man character, at least most of us believe so….The character of Oscar Wao that his whole life is going around the “ fuku” curse circle. There are too many ways to describe the novel and its character. Briefly, “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” “…..is a book about love, about passion, about a character that would do anything [stupidly] to pursue love.” (Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert). 

Wednesday's (5/9) Homework: Reposting this from email here as a reminder

Reading questions: You will be put into groups and each group will present their thoughts on the following. 1) What do you think Orwell's elephant represents? 2) How does Orwell's essay contradict popular culture's view of weapons? 3) What does this say those who feel weapons are necessary in certain situations? What can be said about those situations? 4) Respond to Orwell's statement about masks. -- Other assignments: Come to class ready to write a body paragraph. Bring at least 2 database sources and at least 5 keywords you used to find those sources in the database. In class, we will work to incorporate the relevant segment of one of those sources into a body paragraph.