Junot Diaz's How To Date: Blackgirl, Whitegirl And Halfie

“How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, and Halfie” by Junot Diaz is a guide for teenage boys in preparing for a date. It starts off with a confident narrator pretending to be sick to stay home because he doesn’t want to go to his aunt’s house with his mom. He convinces his mom to let him stay home and after his mom leaves, he clears the “government cheese” from the refrigerator which tells readers that his family is on welfare. He does things like taking embarrassing pictures down, getting himself cleaned and ready, and making the bathroom presentable. Although the narrator is a teenage boy, he talks as if he is an expert in getting girls and seems to have had a lot of sexual experience. The narrator also seems to know how to manipulate …show more content…
I’m not really sure if I liked the story or not; there were good things and bad things about the story. I didn’t like the story being so long, I think it could have been a stronger story if it had been a little shorter. However, I liked the way it started with all the emotion about his brother’s death. Even as a fictional story, I felt the realness of the sadness and loneliness. It really helped lead the story onto Miss Lora by being a backdrop and the reason as to why Yunior confided in Miss Lora. His memories of Miss Lora seemed to help him deal with the loss of his brother. I also liked how he switched on from English to Spanish even if I didn’t understand the Spanish. It made the conversations seem more realistic. Even though the language was pretty vulgar, it still made me feel sympathy towards some of the characters. I think Yunior being so attatched to Miss Lora can also be because he feels only Miss Lora understand him because they have so much in common. They are both physically muscular, are immigrants from Dominican Republic, and both have family troubles. I mean, of course he’s attatched to her because she lets him have sex with her but I think Miss Lora is an escape for