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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz speaks about the different stage that the main character Oscar faces along with his family and how they are in the position that they are currently in. At the age of 7, Oscar was considered a ladies man but after reaching his adolescence years, everything starting to go downhill. He started to gain weight. Adolescence cause Oscar to shut his life away in comic books and writing stories by which he gained massive weights. As the book continues we learn about the struggles of his mother, sister and other family members. Oscar eventually falls in love with a female character but in previous chapters he breaks the heart of another female and Ana makes his feel him the same as he has done to Martha, the one he had hurt. Moving towards later chapters, Oscar finds love but that love caused him his life. …show more content…

Lola’s first persons point of view connects to the part of Psychology we refer to as sensation and Perception, in chapter three we discuss on how the way we view things are different they the way other view it. Lola’s view on her life is more different because as she tells why she left home to begin with we come to realize that everyone’s perspective is completely different. We would’ve have never known how she felt towards her mother if she was not allowed to tell her side. Perception is looked at in one particular way, it makes your mind wonder. Looking to the different part of the story, we come to see how the different everything is perceived. We came to better understand her and her being. Perception also connects to illusion because in all of Oscar’s life, he looks for what is not there. Every chapter of this novel is given in a different person’s perspective allowing us to see to how the characters formulate around each

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