However, sometimes her feelings spill over into her food. Tita is assigned to take over in the kitchen because she’s so good at it. Tita was never close to Mama Elena, instead seeing their cook as her mother-figure. Her Mama Elena laughs when Pedro asks for Tita’s hand in marriage because everyone knows it’s tradition in their family for the youngest daughter to remain single to care for her mother until death. Tita is a Mexican teenager, the youngest of three daughters. Esquivel uses magical realism frequently to heighten the emotions in a common plot: forbidden love. I argue that those who dislike this literary tool have read books in which authors were unwieldy users. Published in 1989 and translated by Thomas & Carol Christensen, Esquivel’s novel has delighted and infuriated hundreds of thousands of readers.įirstly, the author uses magical realism: feelings appear in food, chickens gets sucked up in a tornado of their own making, feeling too sexual causes spontaneous combustion, etc. I thought perhaps some companion to the novel existed so readers could “cook along” with the characters. I’d never heard the bit after the colon before, so when I looked it up in my library, I was confused. The full title of this novel by Mexican author Laura Esquivel is Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies.
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