Summary
Continuing on with the last section, Belicia becomes obsessed with being like her Gangster who didn't have anybody like La Inca always bothering him. Soon after, she found out that she was pregnant, this was a very huge shock to La Inca but not really to the Gangster, he really didn't care. Belicia then finds out that this man is married, but not by just any women but by Trujillo, the government dictator at the time, his sister. Trujillo's sister goes all the way to Belicia's town Banilejos Beli time to run away. Spies are able to catch and they take her far away to a cane field where they beat her up and give her 167 injuries all over her body and she loses her baby. Meanwhile, La Inca has an intense prayer session with a lot of the women in the community who find out about this dilemma. At this point when she is left there, a mystical Monogoose comes out and talks to her and gives her directions that lead her to a truck. In the truck, there is a band, the band for some weird reason feels that they should take her with them. Belicia wakes up five days later in a hospital being treated by La Inca's friends who happened to be the two best doctors in Bani. Around the same day, Trujillo dies and this is sort of the end of his dictatorship in Dominican Republic, so it makes it easier for people to get in and out of the country. Therefore, Belicia decides that the safest thing for her to do is to leave to New York were she could start all over. and screams at her and tells her that she was going to make her get an abortion. At this moment, the people that she used to work with save her, her old boss named Juan pulls out a gun and gives
In the next chapter, the narration changes to Juniors point of view that is Oscar’s roommate. Junior gets to experience Oscars problems while living with him, even in college Oscar is still overweight and cannot get a girlfriend. So Junior decides to help him by taking him out with his friends and working out with him. But Oscar feels that things will never change for him and gives up. Next, Oscar starts falling for this girl named Jenni who is very much attracted to, and Junior sort of gets jealous of their close friendship. Jenni starts talking to another boy, who makes Junior suspicious and Oscar finds out and just gets Depressed. One day, Oscar decides to barge into Jenni's room and catches her with another boy, and starts screaming and tarring apart her room. Everybody on campus then thinks that Oscar is crazy. When the Semester ends Junior decides he wants to move out, but on the last day they decide to have a couple drinks. Oscar being a lightweight, becomes drunk easily and goes to a bridge were he attempts to commit suicide. This event brings the whole family to the schools health facility and Oscar moves back to his house after this. Junior never forgets about Lola and shows a deep attraction to her besides his other girls. Junior always checks up on Oscar and at the beginning of the Spring Semester they move back in with each other.
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" But later, when she was freezing basement apartments in the Bronx and working her fingers to the bone, she reflected that he had told her exactly that but like lover girls everywhere, she had heard only what she wanted to hear. " ( Diaz 137)
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In this section, Belicia is talking about The Gangster's reaction to her being pregnant and talking about later in her life when she moves to new york. Junot uses a lot of literary devices to portray Belicia's the hard labor shes doing at the time. Also, we see the sort of writing style that Junot uses by using stereotypes, in this case he speaks about "lover girls everywhere" who only hear what is good for them. This type of writing is beneficial to the reader by generalizing the situation a bit more and using verisimilitude. It also shows his style by going back in forth in time, and in other cases changing narrators constantly.
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