Also talks about sex which is brought up a lot throughout I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. It's about a woman who loves a man other than her husband, unlike Condé, Hawthorne uses it as a sin while Condé would use it as sexuality. Another novel is “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. There is sexuality and racial discrimination. There is sexuality because rape is mentioned and sexual violence occurs, overall the book focuses on race. Race is a major theme in this novel, because black people did not have all the rights that were afforded to them. Whites were favored over blacks just like in Maryse Condé's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. Finally, Arthur Miller's "Crucible" shares almost all the same themes, because they are from the same period and Tituba is also in Miller's novel. Although it is not a central theme in Tituba, the Black Witch of Salem, the supernatural is a recurring event that happens in both books, because they focus on Tituba who is a woman, but also has a different skin color than people in
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