Domestic_Violence

Domestic Violence The novel The Breakable Vow, written by Kathryn Clark is based on a true story of young high school sweethearts from the south side of Chicago. Annie McGowan narrates her own story about her and Kevin Griffin’s struggle as young teenage parents. On the outside they were a couple in love, working at maintaining a marriage and raising a child. As the story unveiled, I began to witness Kevin’s verbal and physical abuse as well as Annie’s detailed account of domestic violence. Annie and Kevin met the summer before entering high school. Coincidently, their first encounter began by Annie making an excuse for Kevin. Annie’s friend Rene accused Kevin of kicking her. Annie said Rene deserved it for pestering Kevin so much. Had she left him alone, he would have never had to kick her. This was only the beginning of the 8 years of excuses that Annie would make for Kevin. Annie was attracted to Kevin from the start; he was a tall, handsome jock. They fell in love with each other almost instantly. The first inclination of Kevin’s jealousy became apparent, when Annie went to visit a college annie, kevin, out, abuse, again, often, never, kevin’s, father, abusive, school, felt, annie’s, story, go, began, after, while, violence, should, relationship, reason, pregnancy, physical, own, much, home, first, finally, family, didn’t, clark, buddy, behavior, became