This Is How You Lose Her By Junot Diaz

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We have all heard the saying, “What goes around comes around”, in this particular book, “This Is How You Lose Her” written by Junot Diaz, the main character Yunior learns firsthand what it is like to have karma served to him on a cold silver platter. Throughout this book Yunior has several polygamous relationships with different women. He cheats on them, and lies to them, all the time thinking that this is what love is. Yunior did not have a father figure to show him how to treat women or the difference between right and wrong. From a young age he watched his big brother bring in different women night after night, and thought that was the way to treat his relationships.
In the chapter “The Sun, The Moon, The Stars” we are introduced to Yunior and his girlfriend Magda. Now, Yunior …show more content…

She is different than Yunior, she is a little bit lighter than he is, grew up in Hoboken but spent most of her days in the lower east side. She seems to come from a wealthier family then he, as she has a car that she lets him use from time to time. They are opposites and I guess that’s why they were attracted to each other to begin with. Yunior himself describes it as a “Opposites attract sort of thing, it’s a great sex sort of thing, it’s a no thinking sort of thing. It’s wonderful!” (Diaz 49). This relationship with Alma is mostly based off of lust and sexual infatuation, she does things with him that he’s never experienced with any other girl he has been with. Yunior seems to admire Alma for the way she is sexy and wild. Yet, she is still not enough. One-day Alma finds the journal he writes in, and inside were stories of all the other girls he had been with and cheated on Alma with. When she confronted him, he tried to lie and say it was for a book he was writing,” This is how you lose her.” Needless to say, he lost Alma too, the same way he had lost Magda only this time he wasn’t able to convince her to

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