Kevin Cruz
11/14/17
Survival-final paper Africa has gone through horrible times in history. One can only imagine the horror of living under the colonizing Europe. During the era of colonization human’s life were being traded like they were products. The colonizers took the most valuable item humanity can have freedom. During this period, European interests in Africa primarily focused on the establishment of trading posts there, particularly for the trade. This condition was part of the life of Manuel Jean Joseph from Masters Of The Dew by Jacques Roumain and Tituba in I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde also in the work of Camara Layer in The Dark Child During this period, European interests in Africa primarily focused on the establishment of trading posts there,
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Each book uses the theme of survival and gives their character their own to survive. The main themes of the novel I, Tituba Black Witch of Salem, the violence of slavery and the oppression of women by men, and this can be seen in the first chapters of the navel when she says “Abena, my mother was raped by an English sailor on the deck of Christ the King one day in the year 16” Tituba’s mother was just another girl who want it a better future for herself and she decided to risk it all by going inside this boat but life took a wrong turn and she end up getting rape and pregnant with Tituba by a sailor, not only did she go through this horrible experience but she made it clear that she hated Tituba because she would remind her of the day she was rape by the sailor. In the end she took this risk for the hunt of a better life but that’s not how it turn out she couldn’t stop it because she need it to be in the ship and if she were to fight against she could had been kill but she let it happen to survive and keep in search of the better life. In I, Tituba the character of Tituba is a woman who has learned to enjoy everything life gives you, she lived