Like Water For Chocolate Magical Realism Analysis

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“Her body was giving off so much heat that the wooden walls began to split and burst into flame. Terrified, she thought she would be burnt to death, and she ran out of the little enclosure just as she was, completely naked” (50-51). It is phrases like this that makes it all the more enjoyable to read a novel or watch a film with magic realism. There is no doubt that magic realism makes literature and films more enticing to read and it keeps the reader awake throughout the novel by constantly grabbing his or her attention. In Like Water For Chocolate, Esquivel uses style, specifically Magic Realism—in the form of Tita’s birth, the power of her food, and the immensely long blanket she knits—to show Tita’s physical and emotional life as she deals with an oppressive mother.
First and foremost, Esquivel uses magic realism in the form of Tita’s birth. Esquivel states that “Tita was so sensitive to onions, anytime they were being chopped, they say she would just cry and cry; …show more content…
The blanket was almost like an escape for Tita, she would knit the blanket every night before she went to bed. Esquivel states that “Finally she had went to her sewing box and pulled out the bedspread she had started the day Pedro first spoke of marriage. A bedspread like that, a crocheted one, takes about a year to complete. Exactly the length of time Pedro and Tita had planned to wait before getting married” (17-18). The blanket was sort of her comfort for the time she had to wait in order to marry Pedro, but the blanket did not help. The blanket was about one kilometer, which is quite long for a blanket. Esquivel also states that “Tita used any yarn she happened to have in her bedspread, no matter what the color, and it revealed a kaleidoscopic combination of colors, textures, and forms that appeared and disappeared as if by magic in the gigantic cloud of dust that rose up behind it”
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