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I believe that Yunior is being haunted by Oscar in his dreams because of their connection. Yunior has impacted Oscar's love life in a sense that he began to take risks and step out of his comfort zones to achieve that deep love connection he's yearned for all his life. These dreams about Oscar goes to show that he believes he made a mistake leaving him; that he feels guilty for abandoning him and it's as though Oscar's death brought Yunior to be back together with Lola.

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This em-dash goes to represent a cut off; unfinished. Knowing this, we can connect this simple punctuation to that of Oscar's life; and unfinished story with unfulfilled goals. I believe he obtains this decolonial love, however, in a sense that he felt a connection with Ybon. He pursued this connection to the best of his ability, risking it all to make their unconditional love work. This spicy latin love goes to show how hard it is to get the person, but once you have it you realize how hard you had to fight for it; even if it meant death.

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By this I mean that he almost had the love he was yearning for his whole life. By saying "I almost had it", it's as though he is implying that he almost had his love; his deep connection. He almost escaped the grasp of the fuku, and it seemed as though everything was turning out good in his life.

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Considering Lola is happy and living with her husband FOR WHOM SHE LOVES, he will never get that decolonial love. His love depends on Lola

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I believe decolonial love is possible for Yunior. If Yunior just looks for love without holding onto the slight feelings for Lola, there is a chance.

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I believe decolonial love is possible for Yunior. If Yunior just looks for love without holding onto the slight feelings for Lola, there is a chance.

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i do not think decolonial love is possible for Yunior because Lola was that person for him, but he lost her.

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decolonial love is possible for Yunior, his only love though is Lola, she fills the hole in his heart, but they are not together right now, he needs her back.

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Maybe at one point it could have been but now since he screwed up with lola, It's impossible for him to have decolonial love.

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Although we dont see this in the book, I think that the child will bring about a type of or a beginning of decolonial love for Yunior, but he will continue being the old person he is, somewhere deep inside, because he has yet to face his problems.

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I don't believe that it is possible anymore for Yunior, Lola appeared to be his last chance at it, but Yunior threw it away, if he eve found another woman like Lola, he would all too possibly do the same thing and mess it up

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It is not because he will always want something more and something else because he cant have what he really wants so it will never happen for him.

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It seems as though Oscar's ghost disturbs Yunior, possibly because the regret Yunior has regarding Oscar's whole existence haunts him.

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I think he is feeling a lot of regret about his life and his relationship with Oscars family.

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The guilt is eating up Yunior, he regrets not having done anything, he feels he is to blame for the death of Oscar

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Yunior is haunted by oscar because of the guilt he feels for oscar. Thats the meaning of the dreams.

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Yunior is telling Oscar's story in the past tense, hence meaning that these dreams are also in the past tense. Perhaps what these dreams mean is that Oscar's story was never told and it should have been, which is probably why he decided to tell Oscar's story.

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These dreams mean that the curse still lives on and has not left. The cures fallows everyone and he cared for oscar so he gets the curse.

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Yunior is haunted in a sense by the things he could have done for Oscar, not necessarily Oscar himself , but all of the things that Yunior could have done to save him

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the ten million trujillo's bit basically meant that all dominicans that follow trujillo will always be under the grasp of his curse. That they will always carry the trauma that is him.

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This metaphor is used because it shows how horrible the country has treated her.

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Lola says this phrase to describe how everyone is trujilos property; they are possessed by them and are being dictated by the family

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The line "Ten million Trujillo is all we are" refers to them being the lowliest of people still enjoying themselves even after all the death.

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The line ten Million Trujillo's means that people are controlled by Trujillo's wraith ans have become Trujillo in a sense

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That phrase is explaining how Trujillo is in control of everyone's life, so much, that they become part of him, the ones that do not , are killed- like oscar.

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the sentence "ten million Trujillos is all we are" reflects how she knows how Dominicans have been apart of a negative identity (Trujillo), involuntarily.

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Trujillo is a silence that perpetuating rape, murder, corruption and by not stopping all that they are essentially just Trujillo constantly perpetuating the same things he did by not speaking up or being able to stop it.

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The character of Trujillo is synonymous with evil, so what Lola is describing here is that the Dominican Republic is filled with, quite literally, evil.

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It is a replication of all of the people that trujillo has controlled and killed and how no matter how far they come they will never get away from their past.

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I think that it is used to make a real cheesy comment on how the world goes on after someone dies. The em-dash shows that even though life goes on, it does fall flat for a bit.

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Leaving off with an em dash leaves me expecting more, but nothing comes. In the same way, we expect more from Oscar, his life was incomplete, but it just cut off in the same way the passage does.

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the em dash represents how abruptly his death was, and how it wasn't meant to be finished.

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I think an emdash was used to illustrate Oscar's death

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They represented his death with an em dash because he acknowledges he was going to die long before he actually did, therefore, his actions were almost a farewell in a sense that he believed he had finally found a love that was reciprocated and could die in peace.

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I feel like they represented his death with an em dash because it symbolized that oscar finished what he wanted to do. I think the em dash meant that oscar completed what he wanted to do and that he got what he wanted.

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His death is represented with that  em dash because its like he signed off in a a letter , but in this case it is the end of Oscar's life - his story- it ended too young.

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An mdash, especially used like this, represents something unfinished, just like his own life. In a different context, the additional information that ana mdash typically provides can no longer be provided... forever really.

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They represented his death with an em dash because it marks the end but you also need a pair of em dashes in some cases so i think it means that there is more like there is more that is missing in the story.

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He believes he almost has the love he's wanted from Ybon

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I think oscar was searching for a positive resolution to his story; end it on a good note.

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When Oscar says that he almost had it, he is referring to the love of Ybon, or at least her admission of it

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I think that he is searching for something that can fill the void in his life. He lives through his writing and he was searching for something to win Ybon.

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I always thought that what he almost "had" was Ybon, or perhaps that he figured something out about the fuku. But I continue to think it was Ybon. Or just love.

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I think Oscar almost had a way for he and Ybon to live w/o fear of her old boyfriend.

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i think he almost found the desire to be wanted by someone else

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he almost  had that love- that disney type of romance.

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he almost had the love he was searching for.

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I think that he almost had the true meaning of love and not the cheap stuff that he had thought it was bit the love that he thinks he has now and he thinks this is the true feeling of happiness and understanding.

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Decolonial love is not possible for Yunior because he's not capable of loving Lola the way she needed to be loved- wholly.

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Yunior wanted a women like Lola, but his actions made them uncompatible .

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Because Oscar had had such a big impact on Yunior, he began to have dreams of him, following his death. Yunior feels as if he could have prevented Oscar's downfall and eventually end up with Lola; Yunior feels guilty. He sometimes see Oscar with "no face" because he represents yet another person silenced by the effects of Trujillo's regime.

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Yes because it happened. Decolonial love will be able to happen again because even though Lola was the one, Yunior has a possibility to move on.

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It seems to me like decolonial love will be able to occur with Oscar because of the way that Ybon has been responding to him. She cares about him so much that she is basically sacrifice their love so that Oscar could live.

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I think for Yunior, decolonial love WAS possible seeing that his only opportunity for decolonial love would be with Lola seeing that she was the only love for him. Although this is all the love he could get, he is incapable of actually loving her seeing that he is so complicated.

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I feel like Lola is the feeling force for Yunior, and because he did not end up with her, he will always be kind of empty. Decolonial love seems to be possible, but only with Lola.

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Decolonial love is not possible for Yunior as that connection with Lola will never be satisfied unless they're together which will never happen for Yunior.

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I don't think that a decolonial love is ever possible for Yunior. I think that with his ways towards women, though changed from before, he will always have the trauma that has haunted him for 5+ years after Oscar's death. He will always have trauma from many experiences that he has lived through and he will always have the guilt that there was nothing made of him and Lola when they were together.

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I think that if he was with Lola, that decolonial love would have existed for him. He felt happy when he was around her, and even though she did not love him anymore, she was still constantly in his dreams. All the trauma would have gone away and he wouldn't feel as guilty for not being there for Oscar if Lola would have forgiven him for it.

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I don't know honestly if decolonial love is possible for Yunior, but he can always try to better himself. Bettering himself may be the best way for him to get healed at this point in the story.

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It was... The only chance Yunior had at decolonial love was with Lola, and that took 10 years of Oscar haunting him to cede. The time for Lola and Yunior to pass is long gone, leaving Yunior forever void of what he truly desires.

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I believe it is impossible at this point as not only can he not forget his trauma, he does not wish to forget his trauma. They are the only memories he has of Oscar and when he thinks of him they become worse and worse. No love can save Yunior, regardless of how strong.

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I think what Lola means by saying "ten million Trujillos is all we are" is that because they have given into the fear that Trujillo incites, everyone is sort of controlled by Trujillo.

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I think that Yunior is being haunted by Oscar in his dreams because he is still filled with the trauma that came from his experience with Oscar's death and the times that they have spent together before. I think that Yunior felt that he had the power to help Oscar even when they were in Demarest together, he felt that after his death, the help was just put to waste.

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Yunior is haunted by Oscar because of the outcome to everything that has happened brought him nothing but pure guilt and regret. Yunior felt as if he had a responsibility to Oscar, alike an older brother, that grows on him through a "haunt".

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Yunior is haunted by Oscar because the impact Oscar has on Yunior stayed with Yunior. The trauma Oscar endured to get through life was hard for Yunior to accept, and Yunior felt like he could've contributed to help Oscar more

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I believe Yunior is haunted by Oscar because he has a sense of guilt that keeps eating at him; Since he technically took care of Oscar.

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Yunior is being haunted by Oscar because he knows he could've done something to help Oscar from the moment they were living together in college; however, Yunior did not really feel like it was his responsibility or cared that much at that time so he let him go.

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Yunior seems to be haunted by Oscar because Yunior always felt a duty to Oscar, and when Oscar died, his untimely death, he felt behind loose ends of his life, and so the continuation of trauma is perpetuated in Yunior's dreams.

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Yunior is probably haunted by Oscar because he feels some regret.

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Yunior is haunted by Oscar because the fact he misses him, but he doesn't want to accept the fact that he does. He kind of misses Oscar, and regrets not spending some time with him.

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Yunior, like Beli, believes there is more he could have done to save Oscar his trauma. In reality, nobody could save Oscar, but that doesn't stop him from feeling grief, agony, remorse. It was his duty to protect Oscar, and he failed

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He may feel a sense of guilt surrounding the situation as he spent a decent amount of time with Oscar trying to help him be who he wanted to be and in the end all of the time faded and all that ismleft are the nightmares and horror scenes.

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I think that yunior is being haunted by Oscar because he feels like he wasn't there for Oscar when he needed him most. Such as when he was ready to kill himself.He feels guilty for not being there for Oscar during the time of his death.

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Lola meant that the entire Dominican Republic was corrupted by Trujillo's regime, targeting people that threatened their power. She means that they were no better than Trujillo himself.

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When Lola says the phrase, "Ten Million Trujillo's is all we are" , Lola is signifying that everyone is under the possession of Trujilo and are all under this cloud of dictatorship owned by Trujillo.

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Yunior is saying that they are no better than Trujillo.

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I think Oscar has achieved this decolonial love because he seems as though that if he dies, he can accept everything that has happened. Oscar has experienced trauma after trauma, yet in his final moments all he thinks about is his love for Ybon. Love is all he ever wanted and because he feels some sense of achievement of the love that he has grasped, he feels as though that love has washed away all the bad things.

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I think that when Lola says, "Ten million Trujillos is all we are" she is explaining how Trujillo's curses and his power is all that messed up and caused all of these events to happen.

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The phrase "Ten million Trujillo's is all we are." refers to the cowardice of all people in DR, who because they feared Trujillo, they basically worked for him and did as he said. They didn't have eachothers backs, they were just fighting to survive.

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Yunior is saying that every dominican following the generations of Trujillo carry the Trujillo trauma as their identity.

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"Ten million Trujillos is all we are

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When lola said "Ten million Trujillos is all we are" she referred to it as we are all Trujillo's followers because we are scared of him and allow him to do whatever he wants, which is why he has so much power.

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This is stating that they are all just as pathetic and cruel as their dictator, nothing more, nothing less. They are not making their home better but instead are making it worse for others. Nobody is making a positive change.

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Oscar does not find decolonial love. Instead, it hurts him in some of the worst ways.

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Oscar wao conquers the love because he went after a women even though his society looks at her as a a pest.

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I think that Oscar acquired a decolonial love. A love that couldn't be taken away from him after he let go.

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I feel like because he so blissfully let go of his last breath that yes he did achieve decolonial love. His osmosis to being a true dominicano finally let him go.

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I believe that he has not found decolonial love because as he dies his thoughts still consist of the ngative aspects from his past. He is not healed as he cnnot forget about his negative memories with love from his early years as a child. His wounds may be too deep to heal.

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I think that Oscar does in some way achieves the decolonial love that he had been searching for. The love that Ybon gave him was one that made him forget all things and at the end of his life when he was with the two men that were going to kill him, he knew that this was going to be the end and it seemed like he didn't care if he lived or not. He understood that he had gotten some of the love that he wanted.

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I do think that Oscar obtained decolonial love because he was able to feel the love from Ybon. He finally got an equal amount of love in which Ybon played a part of. The kind of love that they had made them fight for eachother unconditionally, even if it meant potential death. It could almost be called a suicide mission, but because of their great love they still tried being together.

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Oscar does achieve decolonial love from Ybon seeing that it's all Oscar has ever wanted. Ybon filled that hole in Oscar's heart, the hole he's longed to be filled.

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I think that Oscar Wao does conquer the decolonial love he has been searching for. I think that he died knowing that he was doing it for love, and that was okay for him. Of course, because of his desperation, he thought that Ybon loved him back. He died feeling successful

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Oscar seems to acquire the decolonial love that he was searching for.

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Yes Oscar by the end of this novel reaches this decolonial love as

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That was a stupid ending. I get how it's supposed to connect to his struggle throughout the book, but Ybon and this whole sub-plot makes no sense. It comes out of nowhere, and is really anti climactic. This is not even close to decolonial love. Ybon doesn't show Oscar love; there are hardly any signs she loves him at all.

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I think when Oscar says "I almost had it" he specifically means "it" as what he desires most - love.

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He was almost fulfilled through a woman's reciprocated love, whether it be presented in carnal or spiritual form.