![]() ![]() ![]() Yunior describes his intense emotional response to his brother's anger: "I wouldn't have raised my head if God himself had appeared in the sky and pissed down on us" (14). Rafa does not know that Yunior has just been sexually harassed by an older man on the bus, and he responds with anger when Yunior begins to cry. Another example of this dynamic occurs after Rafa and Yunior have gotten off the autobús. This severely affects Yunior's emotional state. Throughout the story, Yunior is torn between looking up to his brother and resenting the way that Rafa treats him. Typical of Díaz's sparse and controlled prose style, it effectively describes Yunior's response to Rafa's treatment in as few words as possible. In this evocative simile, Yunior compares his feelings to being rejected by his brother, Rafa, to the sag of a sail. Something inside me would sag like a sail." ("Ysrael," 6) "If I kept on he'd punch me in the shoulder and walk on until what was left of him was the color of his shirt filling in the spaces between the leaves. Buy Study Guide Sag like a Sail ("Ysrael," Simile) ![]()
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