Foreshadowing Issues In All American Boys

The problems of the present can be observed from literature from the past or the future. Every book has an issue that is still very much present in today’s world. It’s almost as if every book can see the future, foreshadowing issues that are existent in the present time. The novel All American Boys foreshadows the death of George Floyd. While some issues are not very serious in some books, there are issues that are very prevalent today such as racism, police brutality, and income inequality. These are all issues that can’t be fully resolved, however awareness will severely reduce it.

Racism has become a very prevalent issue in today’s time. Politicians such as Donald Trump are seen as racist, and some big celebrities who have made racist remarks

The wealthy have so much power because of the money they possess. They have the power to change the economy through production of goods and services which the less wealthy tend to live on. If they stop producing these goods or services, the less wealthy will collapse. Hunger Games touches on this issue. The more wealthy districts have more money to train, and have more of a probability to win the Hunger Games. District 1 manufactures goods for the capitol such as jewelry and other goods that the other districts use as well. The less wealthy people tend to pay more taxes and the wealthier people tend to pay less tax than they are supposed to pay. Protests such as the “I am in the 99%” where they protest that the other 1 percent is the wealthy and the majority of income goes to the 1 percent instead of the 99 percent. This gap will still and always exist, no matter what happens to the economy, unless the country becomes

George Floyd was a man who was killed by an officer, where Floyd used a counterfeit bill at a store. Many BLM protests started to happen, and also police brutality or killing has become even more popular, as the police have to calm down the protests, which may result in protesters being arrested and maybe assaulted or dead. The novel All American Boys, a high schooler was assaulted by a police officer where he allegedly was stealing a bag of chips, when he wasn’t. The police officer assaulted him very badly, and ended up in the hospital for 3-4 days. Police have a lot of power to the point that they can kill someone for no valid reason and not get punished or at least reprimanded. Police brutality is a common thing in today’s world, with black people being mainly