Language in literature has always been a way to express yourself about how you feel and need to say. Language makes the world go round in order to constantly communicate with one another from different cultures and diversities. In the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, he has a mix of high and low culture, Spanish slang, and Standard English. Instead of Díaz straightforwardly advising the story to the reader, he makes a different approach by talking through the novel's storyteller Yunior. Yunior or “The Watcher” gives examination and analysis to the occasions he is handing-off in the novel. His dialogue regularly expresses code changing, changing quickly from an enthusiastic, loaded with successive use of foulness to …show more content…
As Diaz expresses Yunior name is pretty odd because majority of the time it is with a “J” His name is spelled Yunior keeping in mind the end goal to force the reader to claim his name the way the general population in his culture would. The reader must go into Diaz's reality or not experience the book by any means. Yunior seems like he serves as a peacemaker of what is going on. Some of the references regularly summon the sci-fi and dreamlands Oscar is keen on. While portraying how physically weak Oscar is he gives character to him and tries to be friend with him and even help him get a girlfriend or as they portray in the novel, “to get laid.” The fact that Diaz really does not tell the story in his point of view makes it feel like he uses Yunior to give the impression that the story is relating in all different proportions of characters. For example, the titles that are in chapter one “The Moronic Inferno”( Diaz 19), “Oscar is Brave” (28), “Oscar Comes Close” (33), “Amor de Pendejo” (36), and “Oscar in Love”(40), gives the story from Yunior’s perspective about the love life of Oscar and it is as if so Yunior was there with him the whole time and can tell you every bit of information he uses to tell you Oscars story to incorporate the characters