{"id":467,"date":"2022-04-16T19:42:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T23:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishgastronomy2022\/?p=467"},"modified":"2022-04-16T19:43:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T23:43:01","slug":"magical-food-magical-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishgastronomy2022\/2022\/04\/16\/magical-food-magical-realism\/","title":{"rendered":"magical food & magical realism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alec Dempster<\/span><\/p>\n

Spanish 231<\/span><\/p>\n

Asuncion Arnedo<\/span><\/p>\n

Apr. 16 2022<\/span><\/p>\n

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magical food and magical realism<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0How chocolate water can be explored through the eyes, ears and nose of Tita de la Garza and her mother, Mama Elena. Tita strongly desires love and freedom, while Mama Elena acts as the obstacle that prevents her from reaching her goals. \u201cUnquestionably,\u201d Esquivel writes, \u201cwhen it came to dividing, dismantling, dismembering, desolating, detaching, dispossessing, destroying, or dominating, Mama Elena was a pro\u201d (Esquivel, p. 97). Because Mama Elena refuses to bond with tita, she develops a relationship with food that allows her to enhance her emotions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Not only does her cooking allow her to voice her emotions, but the food Tita cooks reflects what happens later along in the story. For example, Gertrudis leaving the farm is a direct correlation to Tita’s cooking. While cooking, Tita\u2019s sexual attraction to peter takes control of his food. This passion that tita cooks his food transmits to gertrudis, who leaves so that he can pursue his sexual attraction to Juan. John Brown illustrates the magic behind Tita\u2019s food, saying that \u201cit creates a brightness that shines far beyond our normal vision and then a splendid tunnel appears that shows us the way that we forgot when we were born and calls us to recover our lost divine origin\u2019” (Esquivel, p. 243-244).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Images of fire and flame drive the novel\u2019s intense passion and emotion. However, this image of fire also encapsulates the inner fire Tita struggles with throughout the novel. Perhaps the title of the novel best outlines Tita. Esquivel writes that, \u201cTita was literally \u2018like water for chocolate\u2019\u2014she was on the verge of boiling over\u201d (Esquivel, p. 151).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Vocabulary:<\/span><\/p>\n

a\u00f1orar<\/span> to long for\/miss<\/span><\/p>\n

la l\u00e1grima <\/span> tear<\/span><\/p>\n

nodriza <\/span> nurse<\/span><\/p>\n

el grano de cafe<\/span> coffee<\/span><\/p>\n

el cacao<\/span> cocoa<\/span><\/p>\n

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Esquivel, Laura. Like water for chocolate. New York, A Division of Random House Inc. 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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