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An Annotated Bibliography: Drown By Junot Diaz
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An Annotated Bibliography:
Junot Diaz
"Impressions...: Review: Drown by Junot Díaz." Impressions...: Review: Drown by Junot Díaz. N.p., 22 Jan. 2012. Web. 07 Apr. 2015. Drown was the first book Junot Diaz wrote and was composed of ten short stories. Its focus is on the hardships of immigrants in the U.S., specifically those from the Dominican Republic in New Jersey. Some of the stories focus on the same family where as others are unknown who the main character is. “Drown” one of the short stories focuses on a young man avoiding a childhood friend returning to the neighborhood, because he feels as a failure. The focus on how hard it is to assimilate into their new neighborhoods and after a while it seems like they’ll never leave and their idea of living the American dream is ruined. Diaz with a strong voice managed to achieve his goal.
"BOMB: The Author Interviews." Interview by Edwidge Danticat. N.p., Fall 2007. Web. 4 Apr. 2015. <http://bombmagazine.org/article/2948/>. …show more content…
He got the idea for Oscar from the childhood nerds he grew up with, that he felt he would have been a part of if it wasn’t for his father and brother. He wrote in as many side characters as possible some real, some fake, to respond to some of the other books written about the Dominican Republic. The book has a lot of language that some people find offensive like the N-word but he finds a strong difference between representing something and endorsing it. He never felt like he was going to finish the book. After 11 years of writing it might be his happiest accomplishments of his
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