This+is+How+You+Lose+Her

====Junot Diaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on December 31, 1968. Diaz immigrated with his family to New Jersey when he was six years old. Junot Diaz is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute od Technology, and fiction editor at Boston Review. He also serves on the volunteer organization in Georgia that provides post-secondary instruction to undocumented immigrants. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao", in 2008.====

//**Table of Contents **//

 * 1) ====The Sun, the Moon, the Stars====
 * 2) ====Nilda====
 * 3) ====Alma====
 * 4) ====Otravida, Otravez====
 * 5) ====Flaca====
 * 6) ====The Pura Principle====
 * 7) ====Invierno====
 * 8) ====Miss Lora====
 * 9) ====The Cheater's Guide to Love====

// ** Characters: ** //

 * ====**Yunior:** He is the main character of the story and the narrator. Yunior is a typical Dominican guy who likes cheat to the woman.====
 * ====**Magdalena:** is Yunior's girlfriend. She's a Bergenline original, short with a big mouth and big hips and dark curly hair..." She defines Yunior as a dirty and asshole.====
 * ====**Cassandra:** Was Yunior's lover and who wrote a letter to Magda explaining what happened between her and Yunior.====

// ** Themes: ** //

 * ==== Intimate relationships ====
 * ==== Infidelity in romantic relationships ====

//** Conflict: **//

 * ==== Yunior is unfaithful to his girlfriend and tries to fix the relationship ====

//** Summary: **//
====In this chapter, Yunior cheats on Magda with Cassandra his co-worker. Magda found out that Yunior cheats on her because she receives a letter saying about everything happens between Casandra and Yunior. He plans a trip to Santo Domingo with her to try to fix the relationship but Magda decides to break up with him and at the end he lose her.====

//** Characters: **//

 * ====**Nilda:** She is a Dominican girl and Rafa's girlfriend, she was lost on him. She lives in a group home because she ran away from her drunk mother.====
 * ====**Rafa:** He is Yunior's older brother also a cheater. Rafa works at a carpet factory and after he came from work and one day the doctors discover he had cancer and after two years he died====
 * ====**Yunior:** We find in this chapter a very young Yunior. He was just about to enter high school. He was in love with Nilda, but he did not do anything because of his brother.====

**Themes:**

 * ==== Nilda tries to find her own way ====

//** Conflict: **//

 * ====Nilda escapes from her broken home====
 * ====Rafa died====

//** Summary: **//
====In this chapter, Yunior is a young boy in high school. His older brother, Rafa, makes friends with a girl named Nilda. she comes from a broken home and goes to Yunior’s house to get away from her drunken mother. Rafa ends up getting physical with Nilda and the two begin a relationship.====

//** Characters: **//

 * ====** Yunior: ** is the main character in this chapter because he cheats again on her girlfriend. ====
 * ====** Alma: ** is Yunior girlfriend in this chapter and him cheat on her and she find out reading Yunior’s journal. ====
 * ====** Lexmi ** : is the freshman girl that Yunior was involved while he was with Alma. ====

//** Themes: **//

 * ==== Fighting ====
 * ==== Cheating ====

Man vs Man

 * ==== Yunior cheat on her girlfriend and wrote it on his journal about his cheating on Alma with a freshman girl. ====

//** Summary: **//
====Alma was one of the yunior girlfriend the one that his describe her with a long horse neck and a big “ Dominican ass” that look to see in fourth dimension with the Jean she used. Alma is a Manson Gross student. Alma was the third Latina women that yunior has dated. Alma was the woman more dangerous in the bed that any other girl he have before. They was to happy until on day of June she find out that he was cheating on her with a beautiful woman named Lexmi. Alma know about this cheating because Yunior have a journal and she read it. She wait for him at the door he stop the car and he new the was something wrong at soon he saw her there mad. She start yelling at him a lot of bad stuff, for example, “ a cocksucker”, “ a punk motherfucker”, “ you have a little penis” and “ no penis” she say all those bad stuff too him. He try to explains himself but Alma is not listing to him so he pick up the journal from the floor and read the passages and he say “ Baby, this is part of my novel “ and this is the way he lose her.====

//** Characters: **//

 * ====**Ramon: ** is Yasmin boyfriend he is one of the main character in this chapter ====
 * ====**Yasmin: ** is the main character in this chapter she is the one narrating the story about her and Ramon. ====
 * ====**Ana Iris: ** is Yasmin friend and that used to leave together before she move with Ramon. ====

//** Themes: **//

 * ====Yasmin and Ramon are looking for a house to rent so they can leave together. ====

//** Conflict: **//

 * while they looking for house nobody want to rent a house to them because they are Latino every place the go they don't like to rent to Latino.

//** Summary: **//
==== My chapter is about a couple that they are trying to look for house so they can live together. Ramon that is Yasmin boyfriend is married in the Dominican Republic. Ramon wife always send letter to him. He never answer but he always save them. One day letter stop coming and Yasmin think that Ramon say something to Virta. Yasmin live in a room with some other girl and Ramon that is his boyfriend. Ramon and her are looking for house day and night but it been difficult for them because nobody like to rent house to Latino. They find a house but is in bad condition the no head, no hot water and the house is to cold for them and they think that the guy it not going to fix that. Yasmin received a letter say that she is pregnant. She didn't know how to tell Ramon about that so she set down and gave the letter to Ramon and smile to him while he was reading the letter. ====

//** Characters: **//

 * ====// **Yunior:** // Narrator, is young and now he is going to college. In college he meets Veronica (La Flaca).Yunior is a guy that have many conflicts with his family. ====
 * ==== **Veronica Hardrada, (La Flaca):** ====

//** Themes: **//

 * ==== Romantic Relationship ====

// ** Conflict: ** //

 * ==== Man vs Man ====
 * ==== Man vs Society ====

//** Summary: **//
====Veronica, whom Yunior refers to as Flaca. He shares with the reader, through the letter, that they had met in class while at school and at first fought their urge to try and get into a relationshp together. They just want to have a physical relationship, but he tried to ignore more====

//** Characters: **//

 * ====**Yunior:** is the main character for the majority of the stories. Not the favorite son of the family and the one nobody pays attention. Yunior represents the typically young boy that used drugs to escape from the trouble of his family.Yunior is always getting into relationship and all of his relationships are convited to failure because he keeps cheating on his girlfriends.====
 * ====**Rafa:** The pretty boy of the family. He abuse of being the first born child of the family. In the chapter "Nilda" Rafa discovered that he has cancer.====
 * ====**Tammy Franco:** A girls that learns that"el enchule"will not take you anywhere unless is accompanied by others.====
 * ====**Pura:** Is the antagonist.Do to the fact of her difficult childhood she will not stop for anybody or anything to accomplish her wellbeing.====
 * ====**Mother:** A hard worked mother. She was extremely protecting mom of Rafa because she lose two baby before him. She dislikes Pura because in a lot of aspects he saw her own reflection in Pura. She was very religion woman.====

//** Themes: **//

 * ====Family conflicts====
 * ====Religion====
 * ====Immigration====
 * ====Marriege for interest====

//** Conflics: **//

 * ====Man vs Man, the narrador family fights.====
 * ====Pura vs Rafa´s mother.====
 * ====Yunior vs Rafa.====

//** Symbolism: **//

 * ====Strong bond of family. The family always be there no matter happens.====

//** Summary: **//
====The Pura Principle is about Yunior, who is the narrator and still in high school.He lives with Rafa and their mother. In this chapter Rafa has cancer and because of, he spend a lot time in the hospital. Yuniors mother spends many time with a group of religious guys, since Rafa has cancer. Yunior calls them the " Four Horsefaces of the Apocalypse." After Rafa left the hospital, he does not take care of himself. Later on, he gets a job, but after weeks he colllapses, which is how he meets Pura. She is from Dominican Republic and the mother does not trust her, because she thinks that Pura is with Rafa for citizen rights, but Rafa will not listen his mother. Rafa and Pura marry and mother kicks them out of the house. In the end Pura leave Rafa and Yunior and mother take him back.====

//** Characters: **//

 * ====** Yunior: ** is the narrator, in this chapter he is a kid of six years old. ====
 * ====** Rafa: ** is a obedient child. ====
 * ====** Mother: ** is a woman that once come to the United States is desperate to meet new people, because she spends the entire day locked in the apartament. ====
 * ====** Yunior's father: ** is a man who always is working and does not like the noise the make Yunior and Rafa. ====

//** Themes: **//
 * Family
 * Immigration
 * Childhood
 * Rebelliousness

//** Conflics: **// Man vs Man
 * Yunior dad has them away from the world.
 * Man vs man:**
 * Mother vs father
 * Yunior vs his father

//** Summary: **// Invierno, in english Winter is about, Yunior and his family have arrived in the states with his father. Yunior and Rafa want experience the new place, but his father does not let them out because of the cold weather. They spend of all the time watching t.v. to learn english more quite. Mami loses her sanity because she spends of the time between four walls since she came to the united State. En the end the porpuse of the author is to show the struggles between families, and how they become happy again.

//**Chapter Eight: Miss Lora **//
 //** Characters: **//
 * Yunior
 * Rafa
 * Miss Lora
 * Paloma

//** Themes: **//
 * Anguish
 * Sadness
 * Death
 * Infidelity in romantic relationship
 * Passion

//** Conflict: **// Man vs man Man vs society

//** Summary: **// In this chapter the author is who narrates. He begins to develop the full story by comparing the life of Rafa and Yunior

//**Chapter nine: The Cheater's Guide to Lov **//// **e ** // 

//** Characters: **//
 * Yunior
 * Elvis
 * Arlenny

//** Themes: **//
 * Anguish
 * Sadness
 * Death
 * Infidelity in romantic relationship
 * Passion

//** Conflict: **// Yunior's girlfriend vs Yunior.

//** Summary: **// Yunior cheating his girlfriend again. She found fifty message in his hotmail of fifty different women.

//**Themes in the Entire Book **//
 * Relationship
 * infidelity in Romantic Relationship
 * Family bonds
 * Religion
 * Immigration
 * Culture
 * Marriage for interest
 * Rebelliousness
 * Chilhood
 * Sadness
 * Passion
 * Death
 * Anguish



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