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Like Water for Chocolate (quail in a Rose Petal Sauce) by Laura Esquivel

Summary:   Although Mexico had been independent from Spain since the early nineteenth century; their governments were continually overwhelmed by internal and external conflicts. In the early part of the twentieth century, revolution tore the country apart

ANALYSIS:

The tragic death of Nacha had become a very devastating part of Tita that had ever happened to her. This was because Nacha had been a great part of Tita's life. She was more likely to be the person whom Tita would run to if things wouldn't go on her way and if she feels that her life was full of mischief. In addition to that, the miserable death caused Tita to be the chief cook within the ranch, which was the role of Nacha before she passed away.

."..a bouquet becomes a banquet..." One enchanting night, Tita had transformed a bouquet coming from her forbidden lover, Pedro, as a banquet for the dela Garza family. The dinner that Tita had prepared gained a lot of compliment from Pedro, which had caused jealousy and grudge unto Rosaura. Flowers aren't really very odd thing to use when we are cooking. But in our culture today, we might think that it would be very strange if we would see a rose petal on our dinner plate, right? Like Roses in particular, it would instantly give us an association of something that would be very passionate in some sort. And if we would see a Rose being one of the ingredients on the list would be very peculiar for us to eat.

Naturally, if a man would give his loved one a bouquet of flowers, he wouldn't expect her to make a salad or a banquet out of it. In the quail in a rose petal sauce, Tita had prepared a feast that would really give us an arousing sexual desire after eating the said food. This was been the effect to her older sister, Gertrudis, after eating the dinner that Tita prepared. This, I think, was because Tita had again transferred her full emotions to her cooking. And the fact that Pedro was the one who gave her the petals, was a mixture of lust and love.

."..lust or love"..." Knowing Tita, who was very limited in expressing what are her true feelings, she had again expressed her desire to her forbidden lover, Pedro. Tita wasn't really sure what she should do with the bouquet of roses that Pedro had given her, but in the end she had managed to create a dinner out of it. Like it was said in the novel, Tita was not really sure of the procedures in making quail in a rose petal, but it seemed to her that Nacha was been guiding her every step al through out the cooking for her hands looks like as if it had its own life that moment. After eating the feast prepared, Gertrudis felt a drastic change within her body. And it looks like Tita's blood and the roses from Pedro proved quite an explosive combination.