The short story Monarch blue is about a woman who belongs in the new underclass, which has come up, because the big loss of insects. A big die-off has made the seasons come earlier, and has made many insects go extinct, and because of this, there are no one to pollinate the plants, which makes fruits and nuts very rare. But this new underclass now has the job to pollutionate plants and trees in these big greenhouses, even though they have to work with very toxic chemicals. We hear how our main character has ended up here with her friend Carmen and how she has gotten pregnant. These toxic powders they work with, ends up being fatal to her.
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Analysis:
The short story takes place in our world, out in the future. Most of the time we are in a place callled Denair, which is in California. We know this because the plant she works at is in Denair, and that is where she was dropped off by the busses, we hear that here “The bus slowed as the driver navigated a sleeping town’s main street… Brie could just make out a Rotary Club sign. Denair, California”.
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