The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

While reading and analyzing the novel, The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junto Diaz, I began to realize that there were hidden messages and information within the lines of the text. In order to fully understand these messages that helped you get a better understanding for the book there are other texts you need to read in order to do that and if you haven't then it flies over your head. If you're picking up the book without any background knowledge in the texts he reference in the novel that you really only get the gist of what's going on in the story. It became a little frustrating at first when we would talk about the hidden connections between two texts based on a revision of a line in the novel. For example the last lines in the novel are "The beauty! The beauty!" which is a reference to Conrad's The Heart of Darkness.