Junot Diaz, The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao It is evident that even with the fastest skim over, of 'The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz that any reader can see the social levels/ class rankings that characters can be placed in such as Oscar. However, doing an in-depth read, I analyzed the many ways Junot portrayed the characters through expression in the text, and furthermore, I examined it by looking at the effects of power drawn from not only economic but also social class. Starting with the story, we quickly learn about many characters. Oscar, Oscars Crushes, Lola and Beli. These are just a few of the characters that play a significant role in developing our knowledge, and background story of the main characters.
As I have said, an efficient way to view social class is through observing the way the author portrays characters in their groups. When Oscar thinks about himself, he describes him as an overweight kid who has no athletic ability; Junot put him into a group of friends in this case, the first social class that we learn about, the losers. This consists of Oscar and his pals that are very similar to him. We can immediately place this team into the lower portion of the latter due to the way that they are described in the text. Through words and statements such as Nerds, Moronic Inferno and Are there faggots on mars. Forwarding into the book, we learn about Oscar's secret crushes that he has all over town. These girls are viewed as the middle of the social class I say, this because in the text they are written about as not being the hottest necessarily but being perfect for Oscar. Expanding furthermore on this, we can see the final part in the book where we learn about Oscar's sister and her group of friends. Instantly they are put to the top of the ladder due to the way that they are described in the text. We see on many occasions that they say mean things to Oscar and essentially bully him in a way with a prominent example on page 27 where we know that they were joking about Oscar and showing how desperate they made him seem. Finally, to end this Oscar puts Lola's friends to the top of the ladder by comparing them to a Ciguapas a mythical Dominican creature that is often seen as super beautiful but cruel very similar to a mermaid.
Junot was very descriptive when writing the text that is why we can see that when you relate the variables of Class with depression that there is an evident difference. Comparing Oscar the low...
