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.

Indraine Ramdut

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.

One moment that made me feel sad but happy at the same time was when Benjamin gave Tituba her freedom. Even though I felt happy she got her freedom, I was still sad because of the cause that led to it. Benjamin lost the house, ships and more importantly his children. I was surprised Benjamin did not blame Tituba for his lost after all she was recognized as one of the witch of Salem but instead he blamed himself claiming that it was God punishing him for not giving Tituba her freedom. Tituba did not want her freedom at that very high price meaning abandoning Benjamin after losing everything. Everything about Benjamin surprised me immensely because he got Tituba out of the prison to make her a slave but it was more like looking a mother for his children. A mother can never be replaced but it was good to see that Tituba and the children got along. I think it was like a dream for Tituba because she found peace in the house and also a replacement for John.

In the reading, the part that stood out to me the most was in chapter 8 (page. 127), when Tituba was talking to Benjamin Cohen D’Azevedo in bed. Benjamin was saying how Jewish people had it though and Tituba retaliated saying, “And what about us? Do you know how many of us have been bled from the coast of Africa.” I thought it put everything into perspective because when Africans were being enslaved all these bad things were also happening to Jewish people too. I also found it interesting how well they connected because they were different and discriminated on. Though the relationship was very short-lived it seems that Tituba was very happy being with him. I think that the relationship was forced at first but eventually I felt like they genuinely fell in love and that he was not a bad guy.

From the reading the part that stood out to me was the part where benjamin talks about the relationship between his wife and his daughter. he describes them to have a relationship like sisters. this stood out to me because metahebel and her mother had a realationship when she was a live that resembles the realationship Tituba shares with her now that shes dead. Another part that stood out to we was when Tituba was updated on the life John Indian has been living while she was suffering. The fact that he was sleeping with someone else showed that he was not only putting on an act to survive around the superior but he was also putting on an act with Tituba. This shows how much he really didnt love her and all he was was an act.

During the reading, I found something very significant in this scene. Tituba encountered Benjamin Cohen d’Azevedo, a Jew, who had tragic history of losing his wife and his youngest children from an epidemic disease. I found this scene kind of sad because Benjamin cannot get over his deceased wife. Furthermore, Tituba decided to support him by speaking to his deceased wife. I discover this very interesting because this was first time that Benjamin had ever communicate with invisible spirits. Moreover, Benjamin and Tituba revealed their different tragic historical and cultural backgrounds. Another very important scene in this was Tituba reunion with Mary Black. It was very ironic because both ladies were being accused as witches. Mary revealed to Tituba about the town’s deception since many girls were being tricked by their parents for money, land and rivalries. Also, the villagers planned to force Samuel Parris out of the village. Tituba also found out that John Indian was in Topsfield. This had left her devastated.