Theme Of Rape In Jon Krakauer's Missoula
Rape has become a huge topic in today's media. Specifically cases of rape in college towns, like the case of Brock Turner for example. At Jacksonville State University, a college campus located in Jacksonville, Alabama, the school's staff felt obligated to pass out copies of Jon Krakauer's book Missoula to all of the incoming freshman at their Freshman Orientation. Missoula is a book about rape culture and the justice system in a college town. It would be logical to give every college student, not just the freshman at Jacksonville State, a copy of Missoula. This piece of literature gives information on how to handle being a victim of rape, how being a victim of rape changes the victim’s life, and it gives an estimate of how many times rape goes without consequence.
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Krakauer shows examples of that in Missoula when the women in the cases talk about how they are afraid to report their perpetrators. In the author’s note of Missoula, Krakauer talked about a survey conducted by the CDC in 2011. He shortly afterwards states that “19.3 percent of American women “have been raped in their lifetimes” and that 1.6 percent of American women-- nearly two and a half million individuals-- “reported that they were raped in the 12 months preceding the survey.” Maybe women are afraid they will be slut shamed, or called a liar. Or in like Allison Huguette's case, maybe the guy was well liked and it would be hard for people to believe that he committed such a crime. All college students need to be aware of these issues. Regardless of why women aren’t reporting these crimes, Missoula sends out a message that rape should always be reported in order to prevent it from happening again. If every college student were required to read Missoula, they would know that rape is a real life issue that happens all the time, and they would know what to do if they ever found themselves in a rape related
Krakauer shows examples of that in Missoula when the women in the cases talk about how they are afraid to report their perpetrators. In the author’s note of Missoula, Krakauer talked about a survey conducted by the CDC in 2011. He shortly afterwards states that “19.3 percent of American women “have been raped in their lifetimes” and that 1.6 percent of American women-- nearly two and a half million individuals-- “reported that they were raped in the 12 months preceding the survey.” Maybe women are afraid they will be slut shamed, or called a liar. Or in like Allison Huguette's case, maybe the guy was well liked and it would be hard for people to believe that he committed such a crime. All college students need to be aware of these issues. Regardless of why women aren’t reporting these crimes, Missoula sends out a message that rape should always be reported in order to prevent it from happening again. If every college student were required to read Missoula, they would know that rape is a real life issue that happens all the time, and they would know what to do if they ever found themselves in a rape related