In five pages this paper discusses the physical and verbal forms of spousal abuse in this Zora Neale Hurston classic novel. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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is exposed to many ideas and themes through the lives and dialogue engaged in by the main characters. These characters provide an unbiased look into the lives of the ordinary
person living in the South and what life was like for the Black American during this time. The issue of spousal abuse figures prominently as do the other themes, but
seems to be the one element upon which the rest is hinged. Perhaps this issue of is due to the fact that spousal abuse, either in the form of verbal
or physical abuse, is something that is universally understood, even if it has not been experienced by the reader first hand. The story of Janie, as told to Phoebe, unfolds
as a story of a young woman full of dreams, whose life becomes one nightmare after another. This is the case for many women who find themselves in relationships that
they did not bargain for. According to the national statistics, women are ten times more likely to be victimized by someone they are intimate with, and young women, women who
are separated, divorced or single, as well as low income African American women are the victims of vicious assaults(N.O.W.). As Janie tells
her story, she shares that her grandmother, a very strict woman and set in her ways, decides that Janie should be married off to someone who can take care of
her and so Janie is married unhappily to a man named Logan Killicks. In Chapter Four, it is easy to see that this will be an abusive relationship, almost of
a father to a child in that Logan constantly tells her that she is lazy, silly and spoiled. It is well known, now, that verbal abuse quite often leads to