Of Love and Other Demons

To me i was not surprised how this book ended. Many times throughout this book the little girl named Sierva told us that she did want to die. Although she never really had any demons the people who were treating her would not consider any other possibility because to them these acts of resistance from the little girl could only be acts of the devil, at this time logical thinking was just starting to gain momentum and was only the beginning of the Enlightenment period. Really, it was the way she was being treated as well as tortured that made her seem almost demonic, it is undeniable that anybody who went through what she did would undoubtedly act similarly. And at this time religion was of high importance and being unable to treat her would mean the church was defeated. It was also mentioned earlier in the book that she was having dreams of eating magical grapes that held the secret to her death so it's of no surprise to me that it was foreshadowing her death.