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· The following version of this story was used to create the guide: Díaz, Junot. "Monstro." The New Yorker, June 4, 2012. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/04/monstro

· The story opens describing the past, when La Negrura, or “the darkness” (1) first appeared.

· La Negrura was a disease that made your skin darker.

· In the beginning, Black people thought it was funny that there could be a disease that turned Haitian people’s skin darker.

· The unnamed narrator says that people love to make up grand stories of where they were “when the world came to an end" (1).

· The narrator says he does not lie about where he was; he admits he was “chasing a girl” (1).

· When it all began he was too focused on his sick mother and the girl, Mysty, to “heed any of the initial reports” (1).

· The infection first “showed up on a small boy in...

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