Domestic Violence Equals Modern Slavery



Slaves Violence
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Domestic Violence
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Equals

My eighth blog for my English 102 class is about an interesting story that we are reading in class, the store is named “Kindred”. The story makes emphasis of two major problems we have been facing for many years around the world. These two problems are Domestic Violence and Slavery, which in fact become one big problem that affects many people. At the beginning of the story, the author makes the readers believe that Dana is a victim of domestic violence in her own house. By doing this, the author tries to catch the attention of the readers so that they think that the story is about domestic violence. However, later in the story we realize that Dana is being transported to the past; to the slavery time. On one of her returns to the present, Dana came back horribly beaten up; she had been whipped by her master, Tom Weylin. When she comes back, her relative, who assumes that Dana is being beaten by her husband, asks her why is she letting this happens to her.

In the story, the author wants to emphasize a problem that has been going on during many years. She addresses that some people adapt to domestic violence after they have suffered it a few times, especially those who are in love with the aggressor. After a couple of times of being physically abused, Dana’s and other slaves’ body get accustomed to the whips and this kind of violence suffer becomes a routine. Today, people who are victims of domestic violence also get used to be beaten all the time. In addition, because the love the aggressor, they decide to not do anything about this situation.

The author uses this scenario to compare domestic violence with slavery. These issues are both similar, almost the same issue. Domestic violence is the abusive behavior in the modern epoch and slavery is what they used to call it in the old days. Even after black slaves were badly whipped and tortured by their masters, they would still serve to them. Even though some slaves did not want to continue to serve their masters, they had no other choice. The same way, a woman who gets beaten by her partner is afraid to run away because she believes that if he catches her he may kill her.