Thoughts about LWFC

Like Water for Chocolate was a book that I looked forward to reading every night. I loved the way the Esquivel used cooking as tool in telling the story. We in away could taste the feelings of the characters through the reading the recipes. It was also, at times, great metaphors for the event at that moment. Esquivel was really a master of metaphors. The one that I loved the best was the matches. It is such a wonderful take on love that another human being can lights someone's matchbox or their heart. It was interesting that she used the metaphor to tie up the whole story in the end.

Most of the characters were very interesting and all different. Tita was a wonderful character becauase she grew so much through out the novel. She was a character that held at least one characteristic that each of the readers held which made it more interesting to read. I really loved the character of John Brown. He was really the most perfect man in Tita's life. She had been hurt so many times by Pedro, that you would have thought she would have moved on to John, a man who truely loved her. Gurtidis was also a wonderful character because she was just a strong woman who was a great example for Tita unlike, Rosaura. Rosaura and Mama Elena were the most unlikable character in that they mentally harmed Tita. Although they both had had bad luck in the love department, they used that as a reason to hurt others.

Lastly, I really did not enjoy the ending of the story. Like we said in class it was way too abrupt and as a read I did not feel that sense of satisfactory. What really bothered me was the fact that Tita and Pedro ended up together. It just make it seem that it is alright for a man to speak to a woman in the manner Pedro spoke to Tita and to treat a woman like Pedro did alright. For me their "love" was really just an attraction, you never really heard their longing to speak to one another. There was that feeling of an actual deep relationship with John and Tita, but she was not willing to do the work which it took to build that firey love between them.