s of no coincidence that soon after she reenacted herself to love her mother died and due to this, she again encountered Pedro. Mama Elena was the walking personification of the rule that condemned Tita. Even after her mortal death, she came back to haunt Tita and curse her child (a child that was only as magical as Tita’s food). However, once Tita released all her anger and told the ghost of her mother how much she hated and had always hated her, she “said the magic words that would make Mama Elena disappear forever”(199). With her mother’s death, grew Tita’s new dominion over the line of tradition that she would create: one entirely different from the one her mother tried to impose. Rosaura’s second child was a girl by the name of Esperanza or (in English) Hope. This Hope for a new way in the family of the De la Garzas was almost sabotaged by Rosaura who attempted to incarcerate this little girl with the same fate that was given to Tita. Esperanza’s aunt (Tita) would not and did not let this happen. Rosaura died a few years after giving this birth, and with her, died every tradition that could interfere with Esperanza’s destiny- that could interfere with her encounter with love. Esperanza went on to marry John’s son, thus symbolizing the new line, the new tradition, that would inhabit the family forever. Inspired by great writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Juan Rulfo, Laura Esquivel fills what could have been empty spaces in her novel with the very typical of Latin American writing and yet extraordinary power of Magical Realism. Evidence of the supernatural is present in abundance all throughout the novel. The book itself is structured as a calendar that in each month gives the instructions for cooking a fancy platter. This connection between food and the supernatural has been established through the history of literature in almost every culture:“The kitch...
