the most interesting about this part is that not only blacks were miners in America but also the Jews. Which shows that the white man not only was able to despise, to humiliate and even kill a person which did not have the same social and religious ideals. Another thing that is very interesting in this part of the story is that Mary comes again to have a romance. Since when her new owner leaves her free she refuses and she tells him that she does not want to be away from him even if it means that she is a slave.

I, Tituba is save from living all her day incarcenated when Benjamin Cohen came to the prison and rescued her. Her responsibility was to take care of Cohen ten children. When Tituba saw how much he was suffering because of the death of his wife Abigail, she returned to what she knows best communicating with the spirits. soon enought he asked Tituba if his daughter Elizabeth could joint the session, he wanted his daughter to talk with her mother.

What I love in this part of the book is the way Cohen and Tibuta comforted each other and became lovers, despite the vast different race. He treated her like a part of the family and even  discussed his history and business ideas with her. However, where ever Tituba is nothing stayes calm for too long. She is recognized by someone on the street then things turned bad. Tituba is almost stone to death, Cohen house is set on fire and he lost his ten children plus his two boath.

one night Tituba asked Cohen for her freedom and he refused and was angry with Tituba for asking. Only to later confess that he was holding on to her only to communicate with his love ones. He finally decided to give her the freedom she had asked for and bought a ticket for her to returned to Barbados.

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”.

Chapter 8-14 were very weird chapters for me. I often felt, saddened, happy, hopeful, confused, and eager while reading. Something I found to be hopeful was the way that the Jewish man Cohen d’Azevedo took care of Tituba. Tituba was saved out of jail by Cohen d’Azevedo, he wanted her too look after his nine children, because their mother had recently passed away. Cohen and his family were a very spiritual man and believed in ‘goodness’ so Tituba no longer had to deal with being whipped which I really appreciated. Cohen eventually took a liking in Tituba and began to encounter in sexual acts for her. It hurt me to see the way Tituba appreciated her new home, but at the same time was more so being used for her body by Cohen, because Tituba never really desired it the way he did. In class we often say that Tituba loves sex, but does she really? I believe Tituba never really had a choice to refuse it, so she just went along with it, which seemed better in her head than to be forced and raped.

The most interesting thing I found out that in the chapters that Tituba had feelings for Benjamin Cohen d’ Azevedo he was her master at one point then he caught feeling for her as well. Even though she used her powers to bring back her masters wife and children, I found that really nice of her to do. I think Benjamin was nice to grant her freedom and return her back to Barbados. Even though he wanted Tituba to use her powers  to prevent his men from getting sick. Then later on in the story Tituba finds out that she is pregnant by Benjamin when he is long gone.

Samuel Parris’ doesn’t want to pay to get Tituba so she is sold. Tituba is sold to a Jewish man named Benjamin Cohen d’Azevedo. He is a widower of nine children, none of his children speak English. She observes (and narrates) his obsession with the centuries of ill treatment experienced by Jews the world over, gratefully accepts gifts of his late wife’s clothing, and becomes painfully aware of his longing for his wife. She recalls the rituals of bringing the dead to speak with the living and, with the encouragement of the spirit form of Hester, brings Cohen’s wife to him and, eventually, to their oldest daughter. She also writes of how their emotional intimacy became sexual intimacy, commenting that she often longed for the sexier, more muscular John Indian, but nevertheless found sexual pleasure with Cohen. I feel like Tituba seen him as a way back home to Barbados.

Tituba has the fortune of being bought by an old wealthy Jew. Lucky for her she soon finds out he has the means to possibly get her back to Barbados. She is bought to care for his kids due to the death of his wife, she soon finds herself dull circle  back into needing the affections of a man after the horrid experience she had with John Indian, who by the way has moved on with a white woman to another city. After having the affair with her master his house burns and his kids die. He attributes this to the fact that he refuses to give tituba her freedom. He gives tituba her freedom but for a moment tituba hesitates, she weighs her freedom against, love, lust and sex once again. If it wasn’t for her master insisting in her taking her freedom she would have remained in Salem. She eventually finds her way back to Barbados where trouble is starting to greet her again.

Everyone tituba is close too either leaves her or dies. Benjamin was a Jewish man who was wealthy. His only use to tituba was to buy her and then sell her to someone in Barbados so she would be home. In a way he was her ticket home. As time goes on tituba and Benjamin become closer and closer. This all starts when she reunites him with his dead wife. Tituba wanted to help him and really hoped that by doing this he would let her go and have her freedom . That wasn’t the case After that Benjamin didn’t wanted her by his side and they developed a relationship where they would end up sleeping together. the house Benjamin lived in was burned down and his 9 children died, so he decided it was time to leave Salem. He believed it was all because he didn’t let tituba have her freedom that’s why everything was happening. So Benjamin set off to road island and tituba was once again left alone. He bought her passage to Barbados but she didn’t want to leave him. She wanted to be with him. It was an unexpected relationship but in the end tituba always gets left alone.

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.