I Tituba PT. 2 (pages 13 to end)

at the end of this portion of the book, i felt as though everything came back around full circle, which i think the author did intentionally as it made the story more cohesive. a few  things that stuck out to me from these chapters were; the fact that tituba was able to become pregnant again, after all she had endured and at her age, and also the fact that unlike her other pregnancy ,with john Indian, this time she really wanted to have the baby, so much so that she tried to get the maroons to revolt against the slave owners in hopes of creating a better world for her daughter to grow up in; this to me showed some amount of growth in her character, because throughout the book she would always complain about how terrible things were, but at the same time she kinda just accepted her fate. she even chose to kill her unborn child over revolting their oppression, and now ironically she developed a more militant attitude in hopes of protecting another unborn child. This change in her character can also be viewed as a reflection of the men in her life because before when she was with john Indian, who acted like a pacifist and was more concerned about his own survival, she wasn’t as militant as she was toward the end of the book when she was around Christopher, the maroon leader and her son/lover, with whom she had a weird relationship,both of these men were more rebellious than john Indian.Lastly the hanging theme was always present throughout the book; It started with the hanging of tituba’s mother, which is why i think the author found it fitting to end it with the hanging of tituba.

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