Like Water for Chocolate

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1. 
   dymatsuoka

   In her novel, Laura Esquivel uses a fictional style called "magic realism", a technique found frequently in Latin American Literature.  In magic realism, elements of the fantastic are intermingled freely with the realistic.  Tita, caring for her baby nephew when his wet-nurse is mortally wounded, is at her wits' end when the frantic baby refuses to take cow's milk or tea.  Out of desperation she offers the child her own breast, thinking it would "at least act as a pacifier and keep him occupied while she decided what to do to appease his hunger".  She is shocked when she finds she is able to actually feed the baby - it is nothing short of "a supernatural act" (Chapter 4).  The magic of this particular situation is one of many which Esquivel uses to reflect of one of the main themes of the book - the intense emotion created by the love between Tita and Pedro which cannot be thwarted.

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   Posted by dymatsuoka on Sunday February 10, 2008 at 11:59 PM
   
   

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   pheak Student
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   In Like Water For Chocolate the reason that Tita is feeding her nephew is because when Roberto was born his mother run out of her own breast milk so then Tita have steps in and offer herself to feeds her nephew. She coul not bare to see her nephew of hunger. She love her nephew and she always thought what ever happened ti him she will not forgive herself. You said that she gets pregnant towards the end of the book, but that is no neccessary true because she is no. She thoughtthat she was pregnant I think but it turns out to be no.

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   Posted by pheak on Wednesday February 20, 2008 at 9:54 PM