The Brief Wondrous

To experience passionate feelings for the first time is invigorating, maybe on the grounds that it increases to a startling level of self-change. Were all impacted by our acknowledge ones, however a few of us all the more so. Evident in the novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, there are some population in the world who have extreme attachment and stress-related anxiety with being left alone, also known as Oscar in the story, ask themself of their own happiness.When the author, Ju non Diaz, writes astir(predicate) self-growth throughout the novel, he explained that sometimes self-development can force you towards unfortunate propensities, making you more on edge, and even confused. In entering a relationship, theres a opening that you might turn into someone you might not wish to become which often causes individuals to make illogical decisions that configures their lives, in this case, Oscar being the individual making ludicrous decisions.Oscar had missyfri completions a s early as the age of seven, he was dating two girls from his school both Maritza Chacon and Olga Polanca at the same time. In spite of the three mood relationship between the young l all overs being an actual thing, it only(prenominal) lasted for a week. One day after school, Maritza wanted to face reality and confronted Oscar saying, Its either her or me(Page14,Chapter1), Oscar being the player that he was with his Dominican Republic blood at age seven, wanted to share, having the best of both worlds, but Maritza wasnt accepting any(prenominal) of Oscars nonsense.Maritza was variant from the other girls Oscar had interacted with. She was beautiful and easy going with the guys, while the other girlfriend, Olga was unattractive and quiet. So it was pretty easy for Oscar to choose who to be with, Maritza. Only to be dumped not even a week after Oscar had dumped Olga Oscar was doleful.So heartbroken to the fact that, he did not interact with another girl for years. After the whole fact of being dumped by Maritza, over the next couple of years Oscar became depressed, leaning towards food for comfort, in the end leading him to obesity, and when he got into the stage of early adolescence no one could really call him that cute little Dominican Republic boy anymore. Oscar got uncomfortable with his overweight body and no longer could go anyplace near girls, because they always shrieked and called him gordo asqueroso.(Page17,Chapter1).However, Oscar had become so desperate that if a girl talked to him for even a split second, he would fall in love with her. He became a social introvert(Page22,Chapter1), not having many friends throughout high school. Oscars affection-that gravitational mass of love, fear, longing, desire, and lust that he directed at any and every girl in the vicinity without regard to looks, age, or availability-broke his heart each and every day.(Page23,Chapter1).As a result, he became very unwoeful with his life, abusing himself not only menta lly but physically by lowering his self-esteem and self-confidence. As it came towards Oscars Senior Year, Oscar fell in love with a girl in his sit down prep class.(Page33,Chapter1), Ana. Ana was a conversationalist, and in Oscars perspective Ana had beautiful Carribean-girl eyes(Page34,Chapter1).She was a bit strange compared to the other girls, yet good-looking, making Oscar fall head over heels in love with her. Until one day she talked about her ex-boyfriend, Manny. Although things were going well between Ana and Oscar, the thought of Ana talking about Manny kept roaming in the back of his mind, cranky him.- My parents loved Manny. My mom used to cook dinner for him all the time.(Page35,Chapter1) Oscar liked Ana, but it didnt seem that Ana had the same feelings. Poor Oscar.When Ana had told Oscar that she and Manny were dating again, his heart got broken erst more. Although this isnt the last time Oscar gets his heart broken, it sure is a starting point to deep, dark thought s. As we read about Oscars life in the novel, we can signalise that due to the strong impression from Oscars surroundings, he believed that a person needed to be loved, naturally he received stress from not succeeding, and in the end lost touch with reality.With peer pressure of having been told to lose his virginity more than several times, he became desperate, wanting to prove to himself that he too, can get a girl and be happy with life. However, due to the fact that Oscar couldnt really succeed in that area of expertise, it led him to numerous accounts of attempted suicide and eventually death.