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Yunior
Yunior and his mother live together in a small apartment in Edison, New Jersey. Since Yunior’s father has been absent for much of his life, Yunior’s mother is the center of his world. Although the two live in close quarters and take care of one another, they are somewhat distant: Yunior keeps his work selling drugs and his personal life private from his mother, while she mostly moves quietly through her own routines, spending much of her time alone in her own room, cooking, or searching for bargains on home goods. For Yunior, she is an emblem of the “old world,” a relic of the Dominican Republic that both comforts and annoys him. In addition, Yunior’s mother requires Yunior to perform many of the tasks that his father used to (from driving her to the mall to making sure all the windows are locked at night). In doing so, she inadvertently stifles Yunior’s ability to become his own person by forcing him to define himself in relation to her and his father instead of figuring out who he actually wants to be.
Yunior’s Mother Quotes in Drown
The Drown quotes below are all either spoken by Yunior’s Mother or refer to Yunior’s Mother. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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He's a pato now but two years ago we were friends and he would walk into the apartment without knocking, his heavy voice rousing my mother from the Spanish of her room and drawing me up from the basement, a voice that crackled and made you think of uncles or grandfathers.
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She has discovered the secret to silence: pouring café without a splash, walking between rooms as if gliding on a cushion of felt, crying without a sound. You have traveled to the East and learned many secret things, I've told her. You're like a shadow warrior.
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Yunior’s Mother Quotes in Drown
The Drown quotes below are all either spoken by Yunior’s Mother or refer to Yunior’s Mother. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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He's a pato now but two years ago we were friends and he would walk into the apartment without knocking, his heavy voice rousing my mother from the Spanish of her room and drawing me up from the basement, a voice that crackled and made you think of uncles or grandfathers.
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She has discovered the secret to silence: pouring café without a splash, walking between rooms as if gliding on a cushion of felt, crying without a sound. You have traveled to the East and learned many secret things, I've told her. You're like a shadow warrior.
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