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Fugitive Test

The story follows an interracial married couple living in California. The husband has risen to a position of success but faces a dilemma when his brother appears, wanted for questioning in a shooting. This forces the couple to confront prejudices against interracial relationships that they have tried to escape. The wife must decide whether to help the husband's brother and risk pulling them back into the difficulties of their past or try to help her husband move forward in his new life. In the end, after reflecting by the river, she chooses to support her husband by helping his brother in his time of need.

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Fugitive Test

The story follows an interracial married couple living in California. The husband has risen to a position of success but faces a dilemma when his brother appears, wanted for questioning in a shooting. This forces the couple to confront prejudices against interracial relationships that they have tried to escape. The wife must decide whether to help the husband's brother and risk pulling them back into the difficulties of their past or try to help her husband move forward in his new life. In the end, after reflecting by the river, she chooses to support her husband by helping his brother in his time of need.

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Joyce Carol Oates’ Fugitive follows the story of a married couple from Detroit, Michigan.

The
wife’s point of view is the one which covers a deeper understanding of the concept of blind love,
since the two are people of different color. Their pure love and constant struggle to overcome the
misconceptions of society, maybe these even coming from their own relatives, is still an actual
issue in modern society.
The husband is a smart character who has been trying all his life to better himself. He managed
to become an important figure in a university press from California and has a happy successful
marriage to the woman he loves. The man seems to have been focusing on losing touch with his
roots from Detroit when he accepts the position of director in California. But one day these
manage to reach up to him again, when his brother, D, suddenly appears at the family’s doorstep,
being wanted for questioning after a rather suspicious shooting in a nightclub.
This is the moment when the family, and maybe even more specifically the wife, reaches a
turning point. No matter how far they managed to run from the prejudice and misconceptions of
people of color sharing their lives with white persons, they are still being haunted by them.
The husband is caught between these two worlds when the brother reaches out for help. So he
confides in his wife once more and asks her to help him make a decision. But she faces the same
issue, shall she give his brother the chance to pull him back into the Detroit madness or try to
help him overcome it?
She eventually decides to stick by his side and help the man in need after reflecting for a few
moments by the river.

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