Textual Analysis Of Bartolo By Divakaruni

In the morning Raven comes in search of Tilo. There is a huge earthquake which destroys almost the entire Oakland and even her spice shop collapses. He finds her lying down unconscious, when her power goes away from her body, her body changes and she becomes a normal woman. Raven still loves her and takes her in his hand and moves out to his car. They leave the place and go in search of his earthly paradise. But Tilo after going a little distance stops the car and looks at Oakland which is on fire. Then she tells Raven, “I who love you more than I have loved anyone in all the worlds. The words are crooked bones I must pull, bleeding, from my throat. ‘I cannot go with you” (314)As she begins to tell Raven why they cannot run away together, …show more content…
Her Protagonists make new adjustments in their new surroundings and for this they reinvent themselves. Their physical distance from their home and their encounters with new ways of life confer upon them a kind of double vision which enables them to look both objectively and nostalgically at their own culture and the alien culture into which they seek to integrate. Divakaruni provides all the Indian vision of cultural, traditional and moreover magical realism. Divakaruni’s The Mistress of Spices also suggests that one cannot ever totally become something other, one always carry something of past, their former selves with them. In this novel Tilo has accepted her lot by choosing to stand by Raven. Lalita Tyabij in The Book review …show more content…
In an interview to Morton Marcus, Divakaruni admits that when she gives birth to her second child, her incisions have become infected and she has to have another surgery remaining in the hospital for a month and only half- conscious, most of the time, she has the sense that she is hovering between life and death, moving back and forth between two states of life and death. Her experiences give birth to the main character of the book, Tilo in The Mistress of Spices who moves back and forth between one existence and another. She bridges the purely realistic and mystic one, dealing exclusively with the Indian American community inclusive of three other ethnic groups living in the inner city Latinos, African Americans and the Native Americans. In the novel, the process of self-perception is the foundation of identity formation for the central character Tilo. As Tilo strives to define herself as South Asian as well as American, she develops multiple consciousness that manifest themselves in both her experiences and her subsequent relationships with her racial and sexual