Tilo's Response To Spices

Tilo asks for a single day of her life from the Spices in which she can live for her own wish and can do whatever she wants. Tilo promises to Spices to sacrifice her life as a punishment after that day. Tilo finds herself irresistible in reciprocating to Raven’s love and she says, “Foe the first time I admit I am giving myself to love. Not the worship I offered the Old One. Not the awe I felt for the spices… the anger of spices, their desertion. The true risk is that I will somehow lose the love” (219). Tilo takes on a beautiful body like a celestial damsel with the help of spices in order to make Raven fall in love with her body and soul to fulfill her emotional needs at least once in her life time. The spices says Tilo that, “By tomorrow
For by next morning it will be gone”(263). The old one warns her finally that she has to return to the island to make amends for this mistake and many of her previous transgressions, if she desires to save the joys of those whom she has helped. The critic Marline writes to delineate her sexual encounter with an opposite sex, which is a prohibited area for the Mistress Tilo- Overcome by her attraction to Raven, Tilo yields to her own wishes rather than those of the spices (207). Tilo returns in her Spices shop after that night and offer her life to the Spices. She thinks that, if the price of getting Raven’s love is to lose the Spices she will not leave the Spices. She proved her loyalty to her art and the Spices. A dangerous earthquake hits America, when she was waiting for Shampati’s fire to blaze and take her back to the Island of Indian spices. Raven manages to find her amidst the large scale destruction. He takes her with him on a journey to find his dream of earthly paradise towards the mountains of North. Tilo feels that the Spices have left her alone or without the magical
She names herself as ‘Maya’ which means mythically as illusion, spell, enchantment, spell binding power etc. she settles and continues her magical art of therapy as normal occupation in America. Tilo’s character shows predicament of being caught between two cultures. The Indian and American Tilo wants to adopt a culture that values and respects individuality. Tilo tries to build her persona in the previous associations with the Indian Spices. Metaphorically the present conflicting or deal in her life she experienced mental and physical pain to purify herself. The same realization she has undergone once again when she goes across her limitations as an Indian woman and as a Mistress of Spices. Divakaruni wants to demystify myths. She says this think through her protagonist Tilo and through her conflicts. Tilo is forced to rethink her role as a healer beyond the simplistic split between her desires to help others and to help herself. In doing so, she conjures up a new American