a Better World, between Dream and Reality You might have heard the song “Are We a Nation?”, and its lyrics: “We all deserve justice and equality”. This conveys a strong emotion, and enables us to further understand the reason why immigrants run away from their country of origin. They desire to reach a certain happiness, and pursue their wish of improving the quality of their lives. Although their journey might be full of pitfalls, they still fight for their shared dream, and do everything in their
father figure to help color the black and white world. In Drown by Junot Diaz, Yunior, a mere teenage boy, struggles to come to terms with how harsh and unpredictable life can be. At a young age, he learns to adapt to the hostile world with the absence of his father and a rough life with his mother. As we see him develop in the novel, we see him struggle through external issues like abandonment, poverty, and hopes of achieving the American Dream, as well as internal issues like his sexuality