Реферат: Drown Essay Research Paper The story of

Drown Essay, Research Paper

The story of immigrant struggles is the major theme in "Drown" by

Junot Diaz. Every immigrant has a personal story, pains and joys, fears and

victories, and D?az portrays much of his own story of immigrant life in Drown,

a collection of 10 short stories. This book captures the fury and alienation of

the Dominican immigrant experience very well. Other immigrants’ grief’s also

come up in D?az’s short stories. My argument for this paper delves with the

question of is this book merely storytelling or is it autobiographical? Also, it

seemed to me as if he uses some symbols and specific words (mostly verbs) to

express himself in a manner which the reader can almost feel the story as if it

were real. The book tells of the barrios of the Dominican Republic and the

struggling urban communities of New Jersey. This book is very strong and these

stories tell of a sense of discovery from a young man’s perspective. It seems as

though for the immigrants, even when things are at their best, a high

probability of calamity looms just around the corner. Uncertainty is the only

certainty for these outsiders, who live in communities that, are "separated

from all the other communities by a six-lane highway and the dump." It

tells of a world in which fathers are gone; mothers fight with determination for

their families and themselves. Drown brings out the conflicts, yearnings, and

frustrations that have been a part of immigrant life for centuries. Diaz himself

lived in such a world. In each of his stories Diaz uses a first-person narrator

who is observing others. Boys and young drug dealers narrate eight of these

tales. Their struggles shift from life in the barrios of the Dominican Republic

to grim existence in the slums of New Jersey. These young boys could be the

voice of Junot Diaz himself. If so, why would the book be a fiction? The

characters in these stories wrestle with recognizable traumas. Yunior and Rafa

in "Ysrael" and "Fiesta 1990" confront the pain of growing

up, the loss of innocence, and how misfortune just happens to fall upon them. In

"Drown", "Edison, New Jersey", "Aurora," we

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