Fiesta 1980 Summary

“Fiesta, 1980” happens three years after Yunior, Rafa, and Mami have joined Papi in New Jersey. There is presently a third kid, child sister Madai. Mami’s most youthful sister, tía Yrma, and her significant other, tío Miguel, have as of late moved to the Bronx from the Dominican Republic and are hosting a get-together at their condo this evening to celebrate. Papi returns home from work at around six and races to the restroom to scrub down. Yunior and Rafa take a gander at one another intentionally, mindful that he has quite recently come from the home of the Puerto Rican lady with whom he is engaging in extramarital relations.

At the point when Papi rises out of the shower with a towel around his midriff, he finds out if Yunior has been permitted to eat. At the point when Mami says he has, Papi loses control. He gets Yunior by his ear and compromises him: “On the off chance that you hurl—.” Yunior, it appears, objects to movement disorder and isn’t permitted to eat prior to riding in their Volkswagen van. The smell of the van’s upholstery may be dependable. Once in the van, Yunior is given a seat by the window on the off chance that he needs to upchuck. Mami gives him a mint to settle his stomach. All works out positively until they close to the Washington Bridge, so, all in all Yunior looks down from the van and heaves down its side. Aside from that, and a fast stop for Yunior to brush his teeth, they make it to their objective without accident.

The packed condo is improved in what Yunior depicts as Contemporary Dominican Tacky—a disco ball, an absurd measure of plaster on the roof, and couch decorations and plastic seat covers aplenty. Neighbors in participation incorporate a quiet kid named Wilquins, his sister Leti, who is Yunior’s age, and a companion of theirs named Mari. Leti, as per Yunior, sports “some genuine tetas,” and Rafa takes a quick try to please.

The youngsters play dominos and sit in front of the TV in the lounge while the adults gather in the kitchen. At a certain point, Wilquins increases the volume on the TV. His dad out of nowhere comes in and chides him, and Wilquins brings down the sound. At the point when the food is spread out, Papi compromises Yunior with a beating on the off chance that he eats anything and Rafa with a beating on the off chance that he gives Yunior any food. Later there is music and moving. Yunior sits monitor outside his auntie and uncle’s room while Rafa, Leti, and some other youngsters are behind the shut entryway, “getting occupied no uncertainty.”

As the night advances, Yunior contemplates manners by which things may turn out badly, which is the standard when his family goes out together. He stresses that eventually, some way or another, his dad’s undertaking with the Puerto Rican lady will come up and an uproarious, humiliating battle will result. Nothing especially appalling occurs, notwithstanding. Yunior falls asleep at his post, and Rafa stirs him when the time has come to leave. Coming back, Rafa and Madai rest. Papi and Mami are toward the front of the van. They hush up, with Papi’s hand on Mami’s knee. From the back, Yunior tells them that he is going to be debilitated once more.

Investigation

The title “Fiesta, 1980” shows the year wherein the story happens. It is the lone occasion in Drown wherein a particular year is connected to an occasion in Yunior’s life. This permits the peruser to put a couple of occasions from the book in their rough time periods. In “Aguantando,” for instance, Yunior tells the peruser that he and his family were brought together with Papi when he, Yunior, was nine. So when he specifies in “Fiesta, 1980” that his family has been in the United States for a very long time, the peruser can surmise his age during that story at roughly 12. (Perusers will take note of that taking away 12 from 1980 gives Yunior a birth year of 1968, which is when Junot Díaz himself was conceived.)

“Fiesta, 1980” marks the lone appearance in Drown of Yunior and Rafa’s child sister, Madai. While clearly Madai was imagined and brought into the world after Mami and Papi were brought together in America, the youngster’s nonattendance in stories set after “Fiesta, 1980” is left unaddressed. It is possible that Madai passes on as a kid, and Yunior essentially doesn’t make reference to her subsequently. It is likewise conceivable that for reasons unknown, Díaz doesn’t plan the entirety of the accounts in Drown to fit together flawlessly.

This story is the first wherein Papi—whose first name, the peruser learns in this story, is Ramón—exhibits his penchant toward treachery. As the peruser will learn, the Puerto Rican lady is neither the first nor the remainder of Papi’s darlings. The way that he feels happy with allowing his two children to meet her, certain that they will say nothing to Mami—and the way that he is right about this—is telling. The peruser may infer that Yunior and Rafa dread their dad’s displeasure regardless of anything else. Their quiet regarding the matter may likewise show a longing to keep their family together now that, following quite a while of partition, they are brought together.

Yunior’s infection in the vehicle proposes that in some capacity he knows that his dad has relations with different ladies there. The ailment may be an actual sign of his dread that the family will indeed fall to pieces.

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