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Three Books, Three Relations :recycle: (Race/Ethnicty Race (Oscar Wao,…

- - - - Rio Gonzaga being mixed as a Filipino girl.
        
        Amongst the three books you find similarities in the main character's struggle with identity.
        
        They cannot seem to feel like they fit into one specific group.
        
        Their families sort of feel obligated to have the main character fit in.
        
        "I go on, hating my cousin for being four years older than me, for being so blond, fair-skinned, and cruel" (Hagedorn, 4)
        
        Rio not being able love her own skin, she is conflicted between being white and filipino.
      - "But she would nor let Tayo go outside or play in another room alone. She wanted him close enough to feel excluded, to be aware of the distance between them" (Silko, 62)
        
        Auntie resents Tayo because he is a half white, his existence is a reminder that his mother slept with a white man and embarrassed their family.
    - - Children around him did not believe he was a typical Dominican. Generally, Dominicans are smooth in their style of talking, or is not sensitive as a Dominican.
- - - - The mysterious incidents that keeps occurring in Dogeaters.
        
        "Only last month the body of a woman was found washed up on the banks of the same river. The woman had been beheaded, and her hands and feet were also missing. She has never been identified" (Hagedorn, 46).
        
        The mysterious crime that keeps happening in the book, showing darkness upon the society which could not be answered.
        
        Linking the three books together through characters suffering darkness.
        
        Portraying dark themes, which impact characters lives.
        
        Darkness that lingers upon the family and is not controlled by them.
      - "They want to change it. They want it to end here, the way all their stories end, encircling slowly to choke the life away. The violence of the struggle excites them, and the killing soothes them" (Selko, 215).
        
        The witchery of all the evil that has happened to Native Americans. All the killing and suffering they go through, they were starting to believe they deserve it. The destroyer keeps causing this evil and Native Americans have to endure it.
    - - Oscar believes that he was cursed, while his sister Lola was blessed with beauty and fitting in with the typical Dominiciana. Oscar struggles to find true love, believing because he is fat and is not suave like a Dominican no female would ever love him.
- - - - In Dogeaters, They find ways of discussing filipino history through the characters' lives. And actually going through the past.
        
        These three book relates through a way of storytelling.
        
        There history is a sort of doom for all the characters.
        
        The history is what makes the family have a little suffering.
        
        Through sections of the book they discuss history. Each chapter has a story of it's own.
      - "I will tell you something about stories,
        [he said]
        They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled.
        They are all we have, you see,
        all we have to fight off
        illness and death" (Selko, 2).
        
        Storytelling is imported for the understanding or lessons and gaining knowledge of the past. It keepts the Native Americans close to their traditions and past. With these stories it will help them stay motivated, through "illness and death".
    - - Yunior speaks upon the Dominicans who will never speak about Trujillo years, and the evil he has committed. For this the history will be committed for Oscar and his family because his family never really discusses the past as well.