What really interest me about this section of the reading is the character of tituba because throughout tituba Life she seeks love and how this night may affect her character is because in many occasions she calls John Indian “weak””, but some cases I see tituba just as weak as John Indian. Tituba weakness is her sexual desires, and her lust of love because when she meets John Indian she wants to run off with him and in doing so she puts herself in slavery and here we see willing to run off with the Jew. Which would b shun in this time period and possibly get killed. So I find tituba to be her own slavery. Here she is a free women and then due to her weakness of her desire of love, sexuality, and the strength of affection in a man, and created hell for herself.

I think the scene about when Tutiba finds out about her husbands betrayal is when she really starts to realize that mama YaYa was right and he was no good to begin with. Not only mama YaYa but Hester was right as well.

As per my preceding posts, Chapters 8-12 of Part II once again proves the significance of the relationships Tituba forms during the course of her life.  Specifically, I would like to look at Chapter 8 when Tituba finds herself consumed into not only a Jewish household, but that of a recent widower, Benjamin Cohen d’Azevedo.  For such a sudden acquaintance, the two experience a plethora of close, and ultimately sensual moments with one another.  Their relationship goes from him explaining his fixation with the abuse of Jewish people to Tituba, to the longing of his dead wife (of whom Tituba accepts gifts of her clothing).  Knowing the pain that he is experiencing and recalling the rituals of bringing the dead to speak with the living, Tituba is actually able to bring Benjamin’s wife back to him.  With this being said, we see the emotional bond between Tituba and Benjamin transform into a sexual one; especially when she begins to explicate accounts of their sensual intimacy.    I found it compelling that she still mentions her longing for John Indian, but still continues to engage and find sexual pleasure in Benjamin.  She even describes Benjmain as her “misshappen lover” due to his bent and deformed body.  This can be essentially scrutinized as one thing — need.  On a basic level, they are satisfying their sexual desires, but more importantly Tituba enables Benjamin to talk to his dead wife.  One would imply that this would enhance their relationship in a positive way, but from Benjamin’s side, that is not the case.

This is enforced even more so, when Benjamin mentions that he “preferred to have a slave,” rather than to remarry.  So in this case, Tituba was still an attendant to his beckon call, but also a mistress at the same time.  Yet despite being in a sexual relationship, Tituba still remained in a subservient position.  Being that Tituba was able to bring back his dead wife, he didn’t want to give that up, even if that meant putting Tituba in an subordinate position.  His initial response to her request for freedom (even though he does grant her freedom subsequently), is vehement at the very least, especially when he states: “Never, never, you hear me.  If you leave I’ll lose her a second time.  Don’t ever mention it again.”  Ultimately, in my opinion Benjamin’s relationship with Tituba only as means of connection with his dead wife — at any and all costs.

This section of reading is mostly about Tituba’s experiences with leaving the prison to her new owner, Benjamin Cohen d’Azevedo. She talks about her screaming when she hears the chains around her ankles being broken off and that she felt as if she was being reborn into the world of suffering a second time. But, I’m pleased to finally see some good things happening for her. She has finally found a master that does not see her as evil. This is because she has allowed him to see his wife who has passed away from the invisible world. She even allowed his daughter to see her mother, whom she had a very good relationship with. And because of this he refuses for her to leave to go back to Barbados. I find this very strange but in a good way that someone wants to keep a “witch” around. However, this is only because Benjamin sees the good in Tituba’s talents.

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Towards the end of the novel, I find out that Tituba died. Before she died, Tituba was pregnant again. I believe that Tituba had an important relationship with Christopher. For example, he reveal his true feelings for her which was quite to Tituba’s previous lover, John Indian. In addition, Christopher also provided her with her own hut. During most of his times, Christopher usually relaxes in his hut smoking a cigar. While Christopher treated and respected Tituba as a lover, the spirits of Abena and Mama Yaya including the other slaves showed disdain. The scene I discover very significant is Tituba tending a boy named Iphigene who had experience two hundred fifty whip slashes and dangerous spell. Furthermore, I feel sad for him because he lost his mother who was whipped to death by master Edward Dashby. Also, he referred Tituba as Mother. Iphigene wanted Tituba to go back to Christopher so he and the other slaves planned to revolt.

what stood out to me the most from reading this portion of the text was the fact that upon returning to Barbados tituba didn’t visit the jew, that benjamin told her to look for when she arrived there; this was significant because it showed that despite the fact that benjamin treated her extremely nicely, compared to her other slave owners, and looked out for her, even granted her freedom she this wasn’t enough for her to go look up some stranger; not knowing what to expect, she much rather to stick to her “own kind”  because the idea of fitting in and feeling accepted by them was much more important to her.I think this helped the authors main goal by showing that tituba always felt connected and was always loyal to her own people. Another significant moment was when she was having a conversation with the maroon people and they seemed very surprised at the idea of her using her powers to help the “wicked” people, despite the fact that she did not answer, this is significant because it shows how naive tituba was before she had came to the same realization earlier on in the book; that using her powers to help the “wicked” was probably not  the best idea.

Tituba gets bought by the jewish man who soon becomes her lover. Even though Benjamin is very religious and aware of his sins they carry on with this deed at night in Titubas bed. For a moment Tituba is feeling loved and relaxed until she meets Mary who was also a slave in Salem. Tituba dared to ask her about John Indian and finds out he lives in Topsfield with Sarah Porter. Hester’s words of men have it easy come back to Titubas head and it makes me wonder if this is her final straw has she finally cut John Indian completely off from her life. That got answered once she reached Barbados and talks to herself saying what wouldnt she give to go back and relive those memories of her sleeping in his arms. Despite all that has happend to her Tituba still feels the need to be with men and even flirts with Christopher who is like the leader of the new place she is staying at.

In these chapters, we see Tituba has met Benjamin d’Azevedo, and she begins to fall in love with him, and he falls in love with her despite her being black. He says “God sees no color”. This to me was very interesting. Benjamin could actually mean this and possibly believes this unlike a lot of the other people we have seen in the novel so far, who would refer to Tituba as a negress rather than another person. Benjamin seems to be the only person that sees her as a person rather than a color. If Benjamin means what he says, this would make all of these people who claim they love God, look like hypocrites. This is a point that stood out to me while reading these chapters.

Tituba’s life has a trail of misfortunes despite her ability to possibly curtail most of them. However I still admire her strength through all that happened to her. Is it that she accepts her dilemmas as destiny for a black slave woman as they occur? Maybe she does, then, find her strength to carry on through acceptance.

I believed old rich Jew Benjamin was Tituba’s last hope to live a normal life after he bought her from prison. Benjamin Cohen d’Azevedo showed care and kindness to Tituba (pp.124 – 3). She soon got more than kindness but satisfaction of her heart and soul which she can’t live without. As she started to be hopeful for a better life, misfortune took its course wiping out her every bit of hope. The house she lived in with Benjamin was burnt down killing all his children. He suffered significant losses in his properties and likewise his businesses. Tituba had to be separated from Benjamin. Another source of her happiness had been taken away.

Tituba was once told by her predecessors that she would be the only witch to survive and surely, she did. She made it through her stormy lifetime, back to Barbados, her island of paradise where she was so longing to be again (pp. 139- 6).

In this reading Tituba is working for a Jewish man named Benjamin Cohen d’Azevedo. Man who has lost his wife and youngest kid. Benjamin and his family are originally from Portugal but they where force to flee because of religious persecution. Unlike Tituba past owners I feel that Benjamin truly cared about her. He let her stay with him even though he know she was a witch, he gave her some of his decease wife’s clothes, he took care of her when she got injured, he sexual intercourse with her, also he gave Tituba her freedom even though he was opposed to giving it to her in the begin. Tituba was pleased with working for him. She showed her gratitude by givng him the opportunity to see/talk to his decease wife. To sum it up even though it was for a short time you can get the sense that Tituba and Benjamin’s family cared about each other. You can concluded that they were kind of in the same predicament as they (Tituba and Benjamin’s) both were kinda the outcast of the colony and the colonial people was not really fond them.