Junot Diaz's 'This Is How You Lose Her'

No one knows whether Karma actually exists, or if it is superstition. Many people do not believe in such invisible mysterious power, but in the world, things actually exist. These happenings are complexly intertwined with each other and passed down to the next generation. Struggling with trick of fortune, people are learning important life lessons and gradually maturing as a human being. Pulitzer-winning author Junot Diaz introduced these unexplained mysterious cycles in his novel, “This Is How You Lose Her”; it brings up some controversial issues. Some people might say that the novel gives hope to many women as a special guidance on how men should treat women because each situation will likely happen in the real world. The main character and narrator Yunior excuses “I am not a bad guy” in the very first sentence in the novel (4). Then he defends his attitude and claims that he did not mean it. Although a love affair easily gets the reader’s attention, Diaz splendidly illustrates the theme of family that delivers the message that one’s personality is affected by most close people, such as family and close friends, through his imperfect characters, figurative and connotative language and symbols. Diaz indicates that characters’ selfishness affects each other and leads their life in

He has also destroyed his life as he has the same bad habit. Diaz illustrates like this; “Sucios of the worst kind and now it’s official: you are one, too. You’re your father’s son and your brother’s brother. You had hoped the gene missed you, skipped a generation, but clearly you were kidding yourself” (162-165). It means Yunior hated their dirty side such as cheating, but he commits the same mistakes. Then Yunior noticed he inherited his father’s DNA and almost gave up running away from his fate because he thought he cannot do anything. However, he has changed after Elvis introduces his second