Tita’s breast magically fills with milk, even though she is a virgin, purely out of her love for baby Roberto. In a spectacular scene, the fire creates a volcano that shoots firecrackers into the sky and leaves the land covered in fertile ash.Įven outside of romance, maternal love creates magic. When they die, their “inner matches” are all lit, creating a fire that consumes them.
When Pedro and Tita finally make love, their bedroom explodes with firework-like magical colors and musical sounds, which can be seen and heard from outside the door. When she feels heartbroken, those who eat her food feel heartbroken as if her pain were their own. The pain of Tita’s forbidden love causes her to develop the magical power to convey her emotions through her cooking. Love defies the borders of reality, creating the magical realism that permeates the novel. Tita’s love for Rosaura’s children is immense, allowing her to love and care for them as if they were her own children. Tita considers Nacha, who loves her and whom she loves, to be her real mother. Just as romantic love often exists outside of marriage, Esquivel also shows that maternal love can exist outside of biological mother-child relationships. After Tita and Pedro begin a secret affair, Gertrudis eases Tita’s guilt by reasoning that true love is more sacred than the roles of husband and wife. John Brown, who loves and supports her unconditionally. Tita is unable to recreate the same kind of love with anyone else, including the kind Dr. They remain loyal to each other, even though Rosaura has the official title of Pedro’s wife. Tita and Pedro swear their undying love when they first meet each other, and though forbidden by Mama Elena and later by Pedro’s marriage to Rosaura, the lovers struggle with their prevailing desire to be together. Central to the book is the notion that Pedro and Tita are each other’s true loves. In the novel romantic love forms a spiritual bond that matters more than the formal structure of marriage. Furthermore, true love doesn’t always answer to social codes of morality. True love is a unique event, capable of incredible resilience. It is genuine love, not social or biological structures, that creates familial and romantic bonds. The novel portrays love as a magical force capable of defying reality.
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