Summary Of Boys Go To Jupiter By Danielle Evans

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In the short story, “Boys Go to Jupiter” by Danielle Evans, our protagonist Claire has been placed in a situation and must decide her next move. Claire and her hometown hook-up, Jackson, were having an intimate night when Jackson gave her a new bikini with the Confederate flag on it. She puts it on, and he takes a picture of her and posts it on Twitter, completely changing her life. Claire receives all types of hate and negative feedback from this post, while also receiving support from the other side. The often-repeated pattern in this story is about race and the negative connotation of the Confederate flag. In this short story, racism affects characters and shows the protagonist another view she never saw. When Claire goes back to Dennis …show more content…

This led Claire to dig herself into a deeper hole than what she was already in. The Confederate flag triggers lots of awful history for African Americans, relating to racism and slavery. The United States has faced many issues in its history. One being slavery and the split between the North and the South. During the Civil War, primarily the South and the Confederates used the Confederate flag. Their beliefs and what they were fighting for was the right to keep slaves. Now, many years later, we do not practice that way and it’s illegal. Even though it has been many years, people still find that flag highly offensive, like Claire’s hallmate. As stated by an article, African Americans primarily are not fond of the flag saying, “Indeed, our analyses reveal that the purportedly non-racial view of the Confederate Flag endorsed by its supporters is not shared by a large fraction of Southerners, especially African American Southerners.”(Strother, Piston, & Ogorzalek 2017). After understanding this quote, we can understand why students of Dennis College were offended by this image and note. Another example we have in our history is the mass killing in 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. This re-sparked the debate for the government about the

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