The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (pg. 269-335)

Summary

Summary
At the beginning of the last section of part two, Oscar is still living in a world of misery by his curse called fuku. This whole last section is from the point of view of Junior. Lola was pregnant but aborted because Junior was Cheating on her. Oscar looses twenty pounds at a point and feels good enough to start fresh in D.R. Oscar, Beli, and Lola all go visit La Inca and reunite in the Capital called Santo Domingo. Oscar decides to stay the whole summer there instead of going back two weeks later with Lola because he falls in love with Ybon Pimentel, a prostitute. He starts talking to Ybon at a coffee shop and finds out she’s middle aged. Oscar goes to Ybon's house constantly and La Inca and Belicia get mad that Oscar is talking to a prostitute. Oscar and Ybon Grow really close as friends, and she like him but they never got intimate with each other. Next, Ybon gets a boyfriend who is a cop known as "El Capitan," this aggressive man claims he wants to meet Oscar and actually shoots at La Inca's house. Ybon kisses Oscar for the first time(dream come true)in her car when she’s drunk, then two policemen tell her to step out. The captain beats him out of pity and threatens him. His two cop friends take him to a canfield to beat him up to death. Like Belicia, the mongoose leads Oscar to a cab driver that saves him. Oscar lives, as Beli and La Inca are in the hospital room they remember the coincidence of the situation. Three days after, Oscar’s is better and Belicia tells him that he is leaving back to Paterson. Oscar slowly accepts it and starts to believe in the fuku. He looks for Ybon, and she finally comes also with black eyes and tells him that they can NEVER talk again. He returns home and his mom doesn't talk to him, he is depressed over his heart brake.
Part three, Junior starts talking about his relationship going down the road with Lola. Oscar tells him that he is deciding to move away and start a new life, so He asks him for money. Instead, he goes to D.R and follows Ybon everywhere asking her to leave. Oscar follows Ybon for 27 days, when he doesn't follow her is writing letters about his experience with her. Lola even fly's down to tell him to leave, and Ybon tells him constantly to leave but he doesn’t listen. One day, El Capitan’s friends get a hold of him and beat him up again, they again take him to the canfields. Oscar tries to convince the two men that what they’re doing is wrong but they don't listen. They burned him, Clives the same taxi driver picks up his body. Beli dies ten months later from breast cancer. Ybon never changes, Justice didn't occur with the cops, and La Inca moves back to Bani. Oscar's death, even after Junior and Lola don’t work out. Lola gets married and has a girl. Even after five years Oscar dies, Junior dreams about him. Junior decides to change and becomes a teacher and gets married. Lola besides having a daughter, travels the world. Junior hopes that Lola's daughter will finally put and end to fuku. Letters arrive to Junior that was from Oscar after, except for the last one. They include information about how he managed to escape with Ybon from the capital and they finally get together.
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"Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him. He told them about Ybon and the way he loved her and how much they had risked...because of her love...if they killed him they would probably feel nothing..." (Diaz 321)

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This quotation occurs when Oscar is taken to the canfield and El Capitan's cop friends are about to kill him. It shows Oscar's hopeless romantic side till the end. The narrator starts out at the beginning of the book explaining Oscar's love for love. The book and Oscar's life ends with Oscar speaking of his love for someone. This shows Diaz poetic way of writing and how he makes his story comes full circle and makes perfect sense at the end. Besides the whole story showing Verisimilitude, "love was a rare thing" shows the way things society was at the time, and also foreshadows Junior and Lola's breakup further on. Oscar was born and dies a lover, the irony in this is that the character is expected to change into a Don Juan, but he dies a lover.