Blog Post 20: We've Come... to the End of the ROOOOAD

Out of all the three stories that we have read throughout this English course, I would have to go with 'This Is How You Lose Her' on being my favorite. This Yunior kid seems to be in his young ages. I like it because I can relate a lot with it. I am not saying that I would treat a girl like trash neither that I cheat on them but in the way that he thinks... most of the time. Like when Junior says, "You, Junior, have a girlfriend named Alma, who has a long tender horse neck and a big Dominican ass that seems to exist in a fourth dimension beyond jeans." (Junior pg. 47) That sounds like something I would have said if I had a girlfriend with a fat ass. Doesn't mean that I'm perverted, I am just being real. I can relate with this dude in so many ways. It seems as if we keep reading, we find out conflicts that a certain character faces. Common threads throughout the novel include machismo and men cheating on their women. The way the Junot Díaz explains these themes to the audience is by giving short stories and having a viewpoint from both, the man and the women's side. Overall I think all stories went very well even though they were not all in order, which really doesn't matter. I wish the short story 'The Sun, The Moon, The Stars' could have been a full length novel to see what actually led them to come to an end of their relationship. This is representative to the Latino culture because it shows that Latinos have a strong belief of machismo. Juno Díaz is telling the audience about how machismo is viewed in the eyes of Latino men and women & that it should not really interfere in a relationship.