What they find is disgusting indeed, the boys face looks like it was eaten a time ago. On the way back, while making friends with Ysrael and learning that his face will soon be fixed by American doctors, Rafa smashes the empty bottle over Ysrael's head, almost knocking him out, and then the brothers wrestle him to the ground, removing his mask viciously in the process. When they do, Rafa cons him into taking the two brothers to the 'colmado' (literally meaning filled) or the convenience store to get a drink. So, they take a journey via autobus to Ocoa where the masked boy resides and ultimately find him. Ysrael was hard to find, however, so one day after the speaker (little brother to Rafa, who's name is never mentioned we will call him hermanito) stumbles upon Ysrael in an alley way reading a wrestling poster and tells his brother Rafa, Rafa decides that they must go see Ysrael to discover what hideous grossness lies under his mask. Unfortunately, the only thing that the mask did was peak the curiosity of the other kids so they chased Ysrael around and tormented him just to get a glimpse at what was under the mask.

The mask was supposed to make him less gross in public and cause the other children to make less fun of him. Because of this, he wore a mask hand-crafted from thin blue denim that covered all but his eyes. The boy survived the tragic event, but was scarred for life as his face was horribly disfigured. Ysrael wears a mask because when he was a baby boy, a pig wandered unsuspectingly into his house and for some strange reason decided to eat the baby's face off. Ysrael by Junot Diaz is a story of two young brothers that are on a quest to discover the face under Ysrael's mask.

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