Tituba finds out she is pregnant, she is happy but the experience is bitter sweet because the father Christopher a maroon doesn’t care about her. Tituba keeps finding these men who shows her no love. She extends a helping hand to a rebellious slave Iphigene, who was whipped to the brink of death, she nurtures him back to health and even though she is old enough to be his mother, she felt the need to have sex with him. Mama yaya and Abena always warn Tituba about the destruction men would bring her but she never listened. Iphigene encourages Tituba to orchestrate a rebellion against the slave owners. This would turn out to be the ultimate mistake Tituba makes. This decision resulted in her death. Seen by others as a person of tremendous value due to her gift and craft, Tituba never seem to see the real value in herself, always needing a man to validate here existence and to love her. This ended up to be her greatest downfall.

Tituba has never been shy when it came to intercourse and normally spoke about it openly enough. To her it was natural and there was no shame in fulfilling her desires – at least that’s what she thought until meeting Christopher.Unlike John Indian, every other man Tituba has been with seemed to have needed her for something, whether it be to communicate with their passed loved ones or to make them invincible. Their relationships were like bartering – grant their wishes for her pleasure.

Christopher was ready to fulfil her desires when he thought she could help him. But the minute she revealed to him that she couldn’t his attitude and treatment towards her changed and he referred to her as a “common Negress”. The moment she couldn’t help he made it clear that she wasn’t valued.

Here Tituba meets Christopher who asks her if she is a witch.

By this time in the text, Tituba had heard herself referred to as ‘witch’ on numerous occasions, and as the text progressed the word seemed to stop affecting her as much. I liked her response to Christopher, it was very accurate -she didn’t deny or agree, but she simply replied honestly. “Everyone believes they can fashion a witch to his way of thinking so that she will satisfy his ambitions, dreams and desires..”. Whenever people thought that Tituba and her powers were able to help grant their wishes, her power was all good but the moment she couldn’t help them or refused to, she was either weak or evil.

So the definition of a witch as Tituba said: “Everyone gives the word a different meaning”.

Toward the end of the book Tituba goes back to her home in Barbados. She meets another guy who is named Iphigene and has sex with him but realizes that it is a mistake because he is too young. I think that the men in Tituba’s were never living up to her expectations and because of this she just always seem to fall short of having a good life.

I’m curious to know what was the main difference between obeah and being a witch growing up in the Caribbean i always though that doing obeah was a form of witch craft, so I’m curious to know what was the ideal difference between obeah man and a witch?, once again we witness here we see people is trying to influence tituba to use her power for evil, when the man say if he was tituba he would make all the witches turn on each other, but to be honest i don’t think that tituba even has the potential to use her power for evil because in a earlier chapter i remember someone ask to tituba to use her power for evil, i believe it was abigeal, but tituba then mention later that evil is not something you do its something your born with, and thought the book all we witness is tituba helping people and in some cases motivate them, so tituba has not one evil spirit in her, so can tituba really use her power for evil?

Coming towards the end of the book, Tituba is back in her homeland of Barbados after experiencing the worst 10 years of her life. Embracing the presence of being home at last runs into another man by the name of Iphigene who happened to be ill and Tituba coming to his aid helping to cure him from the sickness. I noticed that all the men that Tituba dealt with in her lifetime caused her some sort of pain and ruination. She loves to have sex and Iphigene happens to be another one that she has sexual relations with and he is much younger than her. All the men put her down in some way and Iphigene happened to be the worst mistake she ever made. He caused her to lose her life by influencing her to join the rebellion that he was planning. All Tituba wanted was to go back to her homeland and live peacefully but like all the other men throughout the story ruined her. What made me upset was she couldn’t just keep to herself and live peacefully she had to go with Iphigene and have him lead her to her death.

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.

The end of this novel in many ways was symbolic of the entire book itself. The up’s and downs were almost never ending as well as Tituba’s unrelenting lust for men that almost always brought her some sort of sad misfortune. In the last few months of her life, Things seemed like they could almost turn out well for Tituba seeing as how she found a man by the name of Iphigene who though was much younger was a stable force in her life. There meeting was due to his horrendous beatings which left him with over 250 lashes all over his body. over time she healed him up which made him look at her as mother figure even thinking she was his mother when we first awoke. over time he got to full health where the two conspired to stage a revolt. not to mention she was pregnant with Christopher’s baby. As the novel comes to a close some how some way, Tituba finds herself romantically involved with Iphigene. The Morning after this ironically would be where both of there lives would after being found out. Tituba’s tumultuous life couldn’t have really ended any other way. In her own words, she opens the 15th chapter on a note stating “Do i have to go on to the end? Hasn’t the reader already guessed what is going to happen? So predictable, so easily predictable!” A submission to the reader that her fate really will not go any other way.

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.