In "How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)" by Junot Diaz, the main character, Yunior, creates both mood and meaning for the story as he describes his apartment and the surrounding neighborhoods.
The reader feels the embarrassment Yunior feels as he prepares the apartment. Yunior defines the steps he takes to ready the apartment for his date. He cleans the bathroom, removes pictures from the wall, and hides the government...
In "How to date a brown girl (black girl, white girl, or halfie)" by Junot Diaz, the main character, Yunior, creates both mood and meaning for the story as he describes his apartment and the surrounding neighborhoods.
The reader feels the embarrassment Yunior feels as he prepares the apartment. Yunior defines the steps he takes to ready the apartment for his date. He cleans the bathroom, removes pictures from the wall, and hides the government issue cheese. The reader can see he does not want the girl, no matter what her race is, to see the signs of poverty or the attachment to the past. “Take down any embarrassing photos of your family in the campo, especially the one with the halfnaked kids dragging a goat on a rope leash.”
He has rules for preparing for the date depending on which neighborhood the girl is coming from, and which race she is. Yunior describes the appropriate restaurant to take the girls to for dinner. He describes how a girl’s home neighborhood or race will create expectations for a restaurant whether it is Wendy’s or the local diner, El Cibao. The description of the various settings brings the reader into the mind of Yunior.
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