The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Chapter 7 Quotes
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Chapter 7 Quotes
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Twenty-seven days. Wrote on each and every one of them, wrote almost three hundred pages if his letters are to be believed. Almost had it too, he said to me one night on the phone, one of the few calls he made to us. What? I wanted to know. What? (3.7.3.2)
These are Oscar's last twenty-seven days on earth. He knows he's close to death. The capitán has promised him as much. So what does Oscar do? Does he go skydiving or go see a priest or eat and drink himself silly? No. He chases the woman he loves and writes a ton. This shows the importance of writing to Oscar, and to the novel as a whole. Are love and writing Oscar's two tickets to immortality?