I love reading the story of Tituba. Despite all her trial and tribulation she was humble in her position. She was persecuted because she was different, and the people of Salem did not understand her so, they  treated her like a outcast. When Tituba got back to Barbados I thought she would go to her house directly. instead she joined the Maroons who were only interested in her ability as a witch. Tituba is strong in her spirituality however, her down fall is her weakness for sex and this desire always cause her to make bad judgments. Soon,she is in a relationship with Christopher who just want to used Tibuta to become invincible and immortal. When Tituba found out his intent she left him to go back to her house. later she found out that she is pregnant with Christopher’s baby, she was happy and could not wait to see her daughter. However, that reality did not happened for I, Tituba, she got involved with her son/lover Iphigene who she saved from near death. When he removed from his near death experience all his interest were focus on causing a riot. All the planning he did he did not accomplished his goal. Tibuta and her child lover is betrayed by Christopher and there are hang. She was hang for all the wrong there think she did and did not do.  I did not like the way this book ended. I wanted I,Tituba to find happiness in this life not the after life.

The moments where tituba talks about death and not escaping it stood out to me. In a way it foreshadowed her death in the end of the story. Tituba learning she can not escape death, or “close the door on death” didn’t stop her from searching for a way to do so. In my opinion she was afraid of dying because she was trying to find a way to make Christopher Imortal. Another way she foreshadows her deaths are through her memories or hallucination(when she sees the faces of her past). The night she was condemned to her death she had seen the faces of people who was bad or evil. She in a way couldn’t escape her past and it was all catching up to her. Even the way she was killed she had escaped it once but not the second time. In the end she becomes okay with her death she was going to a better place where she can be with the people she loves

When I continued reading the book I was very surprised that Tituba said she was pregnant again. I felt very deeply for her, because at that point I knew things would end up going down hill. Then she met Iphighene, I felt that he played a role of good and bad. He was good because he respected and listened to Tituba. Then when she wounded her foot he came to her rescue. Then I felt he played a bad role because he gave Tituba the idea of having all the slaves revolt agaist their masters. Even one day away from the final assault they both ended up having sex although Tituba mention after she felt really horrible after the whole scene how Iphigene could have been her son. But in the end I think Tituba seen this path coming and she felt that it was the best way to escape the pain and the false lies that everyone was saying about her.

It is amazing seeing Tituba returning to her cabin and finding it very much as she had left it. It was worm-eaten, some thermites and more stuff but nothing that can’t be fixed. What surprised me the most was the fact that the slaves welcome her and helped her building her cabin again after their wok at the plantations. I guess Tituba never realized that she could have had everything in her cabin without following John Indian. Even though the slaves knew about Tituba trials they didn’t stop looking for her to heal them. Tituba found a how to treat cholera and to heal wounds. Tituba enjoyed her peace and freedom she was looking for and more importantly in her land. I can’t still understand why she had to follow John Indian. She would have been much better in her cabin healing slaves, enjoying her land and spending time with her beloved spirits.

This last section of reading made me have mixed feelings for Tituba. I was happy to know that she was pregnant and bringing someone into the world to keep her legacy alive, however she does not know when to stay away from those who are actually evil. I’m referring to Christopher and how she wanted to go back to the camp to tell him that she’s pregnant for him. Even when Iphigene told her she shouldn’t. In addition, it’s is very obvious that she’s aware of her sexual life and it seems like every man she comes across she wants to be involved with. Iphigene kept calling her mother and she still asked him on page 167: “Have you ever thought I don’t want you to treat me like a son.” Eventually they got involved with one another and she began to question herself on whether it was a right choice. I feel like she does not like being without a man by herself. She always wants that affection to be alive in her life and that’s why she chose him being her lover rather than a son.

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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.

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.

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.