Junot Díaz's Fiesta, 1980 By Junot Diaz

By reminiscing on his upbringing from living in Lima, Peru, a third world country. Father would constantly recall his biographical anecdotes to share with the family. Some stories were beyond gruesome in detail. Going in depth to the painful memories that still lingers around like a scar, my father told us how our grandfather, his own father, was abusive for even the most minute things. For instance, when my father would wore outfits that did not meet my grandfather’s standards, or looked into his father’s eyes fearfully when he was being punished, and even when he did not walk my grandmother to and from the grocery store. The mistreatment had reached the end of father’s patience when he became a rebellious son, breaking curfews and refusing to return home at the end of the day. In Junot Díaz 's short story Fiesta, 1980, narrated by an son, Yunior, who describes the hardships he and his Dominican family shared as they drove to a party in the Bronx in New York City. At the age of twelve, Yunior loses his innocence as a result from the never-ending verbal, emotional, and physical abuse his father, Papi, had taunted him with. This lost innocence was caused by what he had said, did, and did

There was not a time well spent between the father and son throughout the narration. Yunior felt that he “ still wanted to [Papi} to love me, (par 24)” a heartbreaking moment of truth for any child with an abusive parent. The unfortunate relationship between Papi and Yunior eventually came to the point where Yunior wrote an essay based his father titled, "My Father the Torturer.” The title speaks for itself in that Yunior clearly pictures Papi as more of a torturer than a father figure. The audience is left with only the realization that Papi had not taken any type of parental responsibility for his son’s upbringing , which is yet another reason why Yunior had lost his