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I Tituba is a wonderful book science fiction book, based on a real life story back in the days, on the 17 century. The book attires many suspense, and emotional situation and reality who will touch your heart. It’s an excellent story who blew my mind, which i am sure will blow yours. The book is affected by oppression, which is the systematic ill-treatment of a social group with the support of the oppressive structures of society. In the following paragraph, I will talk about how does oppression affects my novel, about the examples of oppressions that affects the most my novel and finally about the damage of this oppressions in my novel.

One of the reasons Oppression affects my novel because there is a race problem on that medieval time (racism). The society in my character lives in was full of racism because white people had the power over the black people. They believed that they are the superior race and they can make their own rules and make their own judgement. For an example, they would take black people as a slave and use them for work in their plantations or in their kitchen. Tituba who is Abena (her mother) john Indian ( her husband) would be example of slave in my novel. In the very beginning of the book, Abena was taken away from her village by an English sailor and who will rape her. She will get sold to a rich planter Darnel Davis who will put her in service of his wife Jennifer Darnel in (page 3 chap 1). People didn’t like their lives (specially the black people) because there was no justice for them it wasn’t fun for them getting taken away from a young age to become slaves. A other of example would be Tituba herself and her husband John Indian. Both of them were slave of Susanna Endicott a women of white race, Tituba would work in the kitchen and john him would do the things that his mistress tell him to do, for a example to go buy something :>. Black people didn’t have their freedom in that time that’s why racism affects my novel.

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