As I began to start in my previous posts about relationships, I would like to end Tituba’s tale with it as well.  Upon finishing the novel’s second part, I couldn’t help but realize how vital the bonds Tituba formed, ultimately made her character — and this was essentially conveyed even until the very last sentence of the novel.  Although it was implied, Tituba enforces the notion (despite his deception towards her in the states), that her relationship with John Indian is substantiated by her love; whereas her relationship with Christopher is marked by his shift of her gender.  That is, Christopher represents Tituba by her gender in much of the same way that the Puritans characterize her by her race.  Because of this representation, in her return home, she continues to work out her individuality and her role within society.  Thus, the relationships that Tituba preserves throughout the course of the novel epitomize whenever two entities meet, and the feel of repeated diverge and discussion that usually come with it.  In my opinion, by its end, the novel accentuates that this debate is not necessarily a consequence of Black experiences of dispersion, colonialism, or even slavery.  For example, Benjamin Cohen d’Azevedo serves to elucidate the ways that religion, like race and gender, serve to estrange and externalize individuals.   I find it interesting to note here that when Tituba takes Iphigene into her home and tries to explain her life experiences, he cannot comprehend the oppression that Benjamin received.  He questions Tituba concerning Benjamin’s “whiteness,” and is perplexed as to why he would be treated differently then the other white people.  I see this as Conde’s way of signifying a common bond in the case of Benjamin and the rest of the Puritan’s; implying that just because they are all white, doesn’t mean that they will share a dynamic relationship.

Through Tituba’s movement in and out of the Americas, one realizes that the earnest of describing one’s self is basically illusory.  When she returns to the Caribbean, her experiences in the U.S. affect her relationships with the Bajans she encounters, and she conclusively has been changed by her time in the U.S.  When a planter mentions “Well, witch, what they should have done to you in Boston, we’re going to do here!” it is quite clear that her death in Caribbean, is the very death she seemed to evade in Salem.