This chapter was very fun to read. Very sweet. Tita is recooperating at Dr. Brown's house in the village, and he is the best caretaker Tita could have asked for. He gives her her space and allows her to be her own person as well. Since her breakdown episode, Tita has taken an oath of silence. She had many things to sort out in her mind about her life: about Mama Elena, Pedro, her sisters, and now Dr. Brown. This chapter is fun, because you start to see a change in Tita. She's feeling grateful to finally be away from her mother, and to start becoming her own person again. She still is holding on to her vow of silence, but she has a independent breakthrough at the end of the chapter. All this while, Dr. Brown has been talking and teaching Tita about his love for medicine, and how he uses a mixture of science and ancient techniques to try and discover cures for illnesses. Dr. Brown gives Tita a rag soaked in phosphorous, and tells her that if she writes her thoughts on the wall with the phosphorous, no one would be able to see it, because it is an invisible ink. Tita thinks that this is a way to express her feelings in a way where she is getting them off her chest, but still technically keeping them to herself, because the ink is invisible. What Dr. Brown fails to tell her is that the ink becomes visible in the dark. So he asks Tita, "why won't you talk?" and he gives her the night to ponder over her answer. Late that night, after Tita had gone to bed, Dr. Brown goes to see what she had written, and she had written simply, "Because I don't want to".
I really like that she said that, she is acting according to her own will and ability now. She is excercising her own control by not speaking. She has been controlled for so many years in her life, and now she is has control over something. It's probably a verly liberating feeling for her. Let's see what the next chapter has in store for Tita.
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