Divakaruni’s “The Mistress of Spices” (novel) and Esquirel’s “Like Water for Chocolate” (novel) the authors used particular style of writing called magic realism. Magic realism is the term used to describe the fantasy of unexpected or unbelievable situations happening in the element of dream, fairy tale and mythology which combine every day. In “ Like water for chocolate”, the literature in the novel have bended with Mexican recipes and domestic life stories and appraisal of young women life and love. The characters in Like Water for Chocolate are set against the backdrop of the most important modernizing force in Mexican history, the Mexican Revolution of 1910-17. In “The Mistress of Spices” the novel tells the spices that we use every day
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Tita who is the special character in “Like water for chocolate” the author shows the her connection with food by which she will preparing herself. It provides food form her body to the baby even though she didn’t gave birth. In the “February” section, Tita’s tears in the cake fill the guests “with a great wave of longing and nausea” (Esquivel 39). The hallucination feeling in Tita while preparing the wedding cake for the feast to all the people who attended her sister’s marriage with her boyfriend. This breaks the Tita’s heart which filled with terrible tears that fall on the wedding cake with makes it poison. In this chapter Esquirel’s used magic realism in the reality as a person who eats the cake boutes vomiting and entire wedding become ruined. This is how she talks about her unique ability to interact with the spices: “I am a Mistress of Spices. I know their origins, and what their colours signify, and their smells…At a whisper they yield up to me their hidden properties, their magic powers.” (The Mistress of Spices 3). the spices had the secret powers that desire most of her life. She has the power to alter the life of her customers. She can accomplish that she is the only person who has the ability to recognize the power of spices. So, she called herself as the mistress of spices which is a unreal in the …show more content…
In “Like water for chocolate” the authors says “At Tita’s birth, the narrator observes that “there was enough salt to fill a ten-pound sack—it was used for cooking and lasted a long time” (Esquivel 6). Esquirel shows the image of Tita to the world in the flow of tears that shows sadness pass through her life from the day she born. This character helps the establishment of magic realism which is a supernatural or fantasy as an accepted part of real lives characters. In “The mistress of spices”, the author says “She will lose everything, foolish one. Sight, voice, name. Perhaps even self.” (The Mistress of Spices 24). When Tilo escaped from her village sea serpents saved her from the storm helps her to reach the Island where she met Old One which changes the life and that made her to becomes the Mistress of spices. In this authors examine how individuals appropriate for themselves the revolution's goal related with food which changes life of the characters. By this transmission of the emotions and carries the culture of their own to next generations with the
Tita who is the special character in “Like water for chocolate” the author shows the her connection with food by which she will preparing herself. It provides food form her body to the baby even though she didn’t gave birth. In the “February” section, Tita’s tears in the cake fill the guests “with a great wave of longing and nausea” (Esquivel 39). The hallucination feeling in Tita while preparing the wedding cake for the feast to all the people who attended her sister’s marriage with her boyfriend. This breaks the Tita’s heart which filled with terrible tears that fall on the wedding cake with makes it poison. In this chapter Esquirel’s used magic realism in the reality as a person who eats the cake boutes vomiting and entire wedding become ruined. This is how she talks about her unique ability to interact with the spices: “I am a Mistress of Spices. I know their origins, and what their colours signify, and their smells…At a whisper they yield up to me their hidden properties, their magic powers.” (The Mistress of Spices 3). the spices had the secret powers that desire most of her life. She has the power to alter the life of her customers. She can accomplish that she is the only person who has the ability to recognize the power of spices. So, she called herself as the mistress of spices which is a unreal in the …show more content…
In “Like water for chocolate” the authors says “At Tita’s birth, the narrator observes that “there was enough salt to fill a ten-pound sack—it was used for cooking and lasted a long time” (Esquivel 6). Esquirel shows the image of Tita to the world in the flow of tears that shows sadness pass through her life from the day she born. This character helps the establishment of magic realism which is a supernatural or fantasy as an accepted part of real lives characters. In “The mistress of spices”, the author says “She will lose everything, foolish one. Sight, voice, name. Perhaps even self.” (The Mistress of Spices 24). When Tilo escaped from her village sea serpents saved her from the storm helps her to reach the Island where she met Old One which changes the life and that made her to becomes the Mistress of spices. In this authors examine how individuals appropriate for themselves the revolution's goal related with food which changes life of the characters. By this transmission of the emotions and carries the culture of their own to next generations with the