An Analysis Of 'How To Date A Brown Girl, Whitegirl, Or Halfie'

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Junot Diaz, author of “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie’’ is a “how to” instructional guide that is written in second person. This allows the author to offer different perspectives as in how to act and behave towards an individual according to their race and social class. With this way of writing it gives a realistic point of view because we are able to actualize it to real life. This suggests that the government cheese that the boy’s family has been part of his social class. By him hiding the cheese, it is an instruction on how he must act according to the ethnicity of the girl. In real life people may hide the fact that they purchase great value brands from Wal-Mart. The significance of this short story by Junot Diaz is to give the audience an instruction manual that allows us to recognize how …show more content…

Wallace presents a label saying “B.I #40 06-97 Benton Ridge OH” indicating the location of where the interview is given. The person that receives the interview is John. During the interview we can identify that the author left out the question.The significance of leaving the question out of the interview is to inform the audience more about the character. In the example above, we learn that John manipulates women through a system. This system soon makes them feel sorry for him because his arm looks like a “flipper”. John refers his flipper as an asset, an asset for sex. There is another significance to Wallace leaving the question out. Without the question our imagination is forced to wonder, questioning ourselves what the question is in accordance with the answer given in the interview. In the example above the reader may think the question is what is the most critical stage of your system and what emotions are there between you and the women? With Wallace’s structure of writing in “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men” the reader is challenged throughout the short story wondering as to why the question is left out and what is the

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