My personal experience of being "cursed"

My personal experience of being "cursed" was when I was in the eighth grade and I had gotten very hurt multiple times. I play softball and during practice one time on my travel ball team I had gotten hit in the face with a ball and broke my nose. I had to have surgery to fix my nose which was extremely scary for me. During that time it was hard for me to do anything even sleep. I wasn't able to play for an entire season. one I got better and started to play again during a tryout in the same year I broke my finger on my left hand and had to have a cast on for an entire month. After that month the doctors told me to take it easy from playing. I was too excited to play that I started practicing anyways after my cast was off and ended up dislocating my knee. At that point I was so tired of getting hurt I actually waited for my doctor to say it was okay for me to start playing again until doing anything. I realized that I have to be more careful when I play but ever since then I haven't gotten hurt from playing softball. This is a time I would say I have been "cursed" because I didn't listen to my doctor and ended up hurting myself more than once. In the novel this woman said "she believed shed been denied happiness because she laughed at a rival's funeral" I think I can relate because when my doctor told me not to play for a while I laughed and played anyways but then ended up getting hurt again which in a way I was denied happiness from playing softball. 

The Idea of FuKu that Diaz opens in the novel is how FuKu is kind like bad karma. The history of the colonialism in 'the Americas" marked the beginning of the FuKu on the Dominican people. In the novel it talks about how no one knew if "Trujillo was the curses servant or its master, its agent or principal, but it was clear he and it had an understanding, that them two was tight" (3). The novel explains that if anyone tries to kill or "assassinate him always got done, why those dudes who finally did buck him down all died so horrifically" (3). Which means that if anyone were to go against or betray Trujillo they would end up died or missing. The FuKu would be with you (you'll be cursed).