Magical Realism and Fantastic Sublime in Laura Esquivels...

Magical Realism and Fantastic Sublime in Laura Esquivels Like Water for Chocolate The different elements of the story Like Water for Chocolate are amazing. The feelings that go through a person upon listening, watching, and tasting events that happen during this story of the Spanish familys lives. The customs of this family were so unorthodox. This story is fantastic sublime and magical realism combined. Laura Esquivel wrote this novel in 1992. The nationality of the people in the novel was Mexican. A person can tell by the way expressions were made and the things that were done in the story. The novel has many fantastic sublime elements as well as magical realism. The elements of the story that stick out in a persons mind are the†¦show more content†¦Love is magical any way one looks at it. However, the love Tita felt in this story would also seem to be considered sublime. Titas feelings were inhuman about Pedro. How could anyone love a person as much as Tita did and say anything? Society today has never heard of such a thing. Everyone seems to say what he or she feels or doesnt feel. It doesnt matter to him or her. Tita turned all of her feelings into cooking. The magical way Titas feelings went into the cake batter. As she mixed it she cried and the tears dropped into it the bowl. The cake was baked, and people who ate it reflected each ones feelings toward each other. The cooking had a mystical power that seemed to have some magical realism involved because of all the strange happenings due to the cooking. However, the cooking seemed to have the essence of the sublime which involves the inhuman image of silence of the sublime. The inner feeling of a person that has a boundary or threshold inside of them ready to ignite was what happened to the shower when Titas sister was in it. The threshold of the inner feelings of this girl was exploding. During her shower, the inner feelings of passion exploded, and flames from the passion that she was feeling caused the shower to catch on fire. In the excitement of the burning shower house, the girl ran out of the shower without any clothes, not even a towel. The magical realism was all the passion the girl had inside her that just erupted