John And Tita Esquivel Analysis

Through the symbolism of Johns and Tita’s relationship, Esquivel develops the theme of true love in order to argue that true love does not always prevail. Tita is home taking care of Pedro nursing him to health. In the meantime she still needs to make dinner for her fiance John and his aunt Mary. While cooking Rosaura who recently lost 60 pounds, interrupts her and argues that Tita made her a laughing stock because she is intimate with Pedro; Rosaura’s husband. When Tita finally gets back to cooking she realizes that after hours the beans have not cooked whatsoever. She remembered that her beloved sister Nancha had said that when people argue while preparing tamales, the tamales won't get cooked. In a case like that, you have to sing to them, which makes them happy; …show more content…
So she did. “While Tita was singing, the bean liquor was boiling madly.” Tita begins to sing through the “true” love she think she feels about Pedro. In the passage before Esquivel writes that as Tita sings, flashbacks from Pedro and her confrontation in the dark room came to her which then the thought of this triggers such a strong emotion. The lust between them created the beans to boiled dangerously out of control. “The beans allowed the liquid in which they were floating to penetrate them; they swelled until they were about to burst.” The liquid penetrating the beans symbolizes all John did for Tita to help her. He disobeyed Mama Elena’s order of bringing her to an insane asylum. John took care of Tita each day and feeding her, even though she had not spoken once to him. He took every moment of every day to make sure that she was satisfied. “When Tita opened her eyes and took a bean to test it, she saw that now the beans were done perfectly”(219). Tita opening her eyes was like the moment she spoke again and the beans being perfectly cooked was symbolizing how perfect John is for her. After all that cooking she still decides that she is telling John tonight that she is calling off the