In Junot Diaz’s book negocias he first introduces us to a struggling family where a father is departing from his wife and children. his aims are to leave for america in the hope that his children will come, yet despite his wishes they feel differently. among his departure he struggles to share a happy leave due to his wife and her not understanding his reasons. when in america he struggles for accommodation and his general state of how he will live another factor was that he was after money and wasn’t planning to let anything stop him. the thought of living rough was OK to him as long as he’d be saving dollars, he was a dedicated man yet he cared more about his money than his family.after a while of sleeping on a couch he got a ride from marshals who offered him to take him part of his big journey to New York!.Along the way he shared discussion with the marshals and was ever so grateful.He continues to struggle and even loses his job, so he seeks his resort of getting a wife to live in the country legally. this brings him to a man called el general who offers to do the job for him and getting a willing woman but obviously for the right price. the amount of money was a gamble to invest yet he proceeded, the women had had discussions with him and offered him yet another deals for the majority of his savings. After paying and then not hearing from her he knows he’s been played.later on in the book his luck seems to arise and he meets a lady called ‘Nilda’ she invites him into her life and he sees this as an invitation to be intimate but is later shut down.