How does one describe deep, complex love? In our world we are aware of family love, friends love but the biggest one of all, love for a specific person. Laura Esquivel describes how this love truly is in her magical realism book called "Like Water for Chocolate". Set at a Mexican ranch, main character Tita lives a perplexed life as she tries to figure out which man is for her, Pedro her very first love or John the respectful and kind one. After giving enough time to think it over, she soon realizes that her love is for Pedro, although they had to overcome the many hardships that made their love impossible or difficult to maintain. Laura Esquivel uses the descriptions of characters feelings so she can represent how love can affect someone deeply.
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After everything that has happened between Pedro and Tita (Pedro marrying another women and Tita having feelings for another man), it was reasonable to deduce that their love would soon fade away making it become only but a memory. Even before Tita explained how she planned to give the news to John, Pedro’s personality affected how she saw him. His attitude wasn’t understandable because he was acting “like a child throwing a tantrum” (211). In the reader’s point of view it’s understandable why she began to reconsider her decision because she was speaking to a person she couldn’t recognize anymore. All she saw in him was a person caring about what he wanted and his needs rather than the feelings of her. Truly a person born with a different mindset than others, it appeared he lost his sense of being human and gained a sense of how to become a selfish person. Later on in this chapter, Tita begins to realize that he is only acting this way because he really cares about her, just as she does towards him. Since Tita was cooking a meal for John and his grandmother, entering the kitchen, she expected the beans to be cooked only to be presented with uncooked beans. This was …show more content…
In a chapter that starts by celebrating a marriage with John’s son Alex and Rosaura’s daughter Esperanza, the food made by Tita was a success because it made everyone come back for seconds. The affect the food had on people was that everyone was feeling the “heats” for their partner and soon enough everyone left the party in no time. With no surprise that Tita and Pedro ate the food and were now all alone in the house, they sought a room of peace so they can release their sexual steam. Once they found the dark room, together they "released the passion that had been contained for so many years" (243). It was an excruciating twenty-two years their love had been in an unknown state, confused on whether if it will be back or be left forever but when Tita impassioned her feelings towards Pedro in bed, the decision made it crystal clear. Deep inside her, she accepted the reality her feelings of Pedro were already rooted in her heart and without a second thought, expressed her undying love towards Pedro. Their bond of love wasn’t something ordinary, but spectacular because it brought such an intense feeling unlike any other relationship shown in the book. Furthermore, while having sex, a wonderful thought
After everything that has happened between Pedro and Tita (Pedro marrying another women and Tita having feelings for another man), it was reasonable to deduce that their love would soon fade away making it become only but a memory. Even before Tita explained how she planned to give the news to John, Pedro’s personality affected how she saw him. His attitude wasn’t understandable because he was acting “like a child throwing a tantrum” (211). In the reader’s point of view it’s understandable why she began to reconsider her decision because she was speaking to a person she couldn’t recognize anymore. All she saw in him was a person caring about what he wanted and his needs rather than the feelings of her. Truly a person born with a different mindset than others, it appeared he lost his sense of being human and gained a sense of how to become a selfish person. Later on in this chapter, Tita begins to realize that he is only acting this way because he really cares about her, just as she does towards him. Since Tita was cooking a meal for John and his grandmother, entering the kitchen, she expected the beans to be cooked only to be presented with uncooked beans. This was …show more content…
In a chapter that starts by celebrating a marriage with John’s son Alex and Rosaura’s daughter Esperanza, the food made by Tita was a success because it made everyone come back for seconds. The affect the food had on people was that everyone was feeling the “heats” for their partner and soon enough everyone left the party in no time. With no surprise that Tita and Pedro ate the food and were now all alone in the house, they sought a room of peace so they can release their sexual steam. Once they found the dark room, together they "released the passion that had been contained for so many years" (243). It was an excruciating twenty-two years their love had been in an unknown state, confused on whether if it will be back or be left forever but when Tita impassioned her feelings towards Pedro in bed, the decision made it crystal clear. Deep inside her, she accepted the reality her feelings of Pedro were already rooted in her heart and without a second thought, expressed her undying love towards Pedro. Their bond of love wasn’t something ordinary, but spectacular because it brought such an intense feeling unlike any other relationship shown in the book. Furthermore, while having sex, a wonderful thought