Essay for the book This is how you lose her by Junot Diaz
Reread the top of page 38: “That was the summer when everything we would become was hovering just over our heads. Girls were starting to take notice of me; I wasn’t good looking but I listened and I had boxing muscles in my arms. In another universe probably came out ok, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which to swim, but in this world I had a brother who was dying of cancer and a long dark patch of life like a mile of black ice waiting for me up ahead.”
1) Answer: What of Yunior’s inner-psychology is revealed here? How does this relate to the question of the essay prompt? Discuss.
Prompt: consider the life and background of Yunior and decide ultimately whether his ongoing struggles are his own doing, or beyond his control, or something else altogether.
