I really enjoyed the way this novel used food as the way to the feelings Tita especially was having. People always say that food can have that effect on people. I think the author, Laura Esquivel was really trying to recreate the story of Romeo and Juliet.
Throughout their lives they know they want to be together and try everything they must to have it happen. Tita even goes as far as watching Pedro marry her oldest sister! This would not be okay in my family. Not one of my sisters would ever do that to me nor would our Mother allow that to happen.
I can't imagine going through life not being allowed to marry because it was my duty to take care of my mother. I can understand if that was the case, but you still could marry and have a family. I know, being that I am Mexican, in our culture we do have a tendency to care for our parents when they are older. A lot of times you will see a family whose grandmother lives with them because they are getting too old to take care of themselves. It is not very often at all in our culture to take them to a home. Although Mama Elena was extremely controlling and a little crazy, the author did a good job at relating the story to what might really happen in a Mexican family.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Love
After finishing the book, I was able to put all the pieces together. Mr. Cosey had women after him like crazy, but it was hard to realize the type of man he really was. How could this man that was held in such high esteem by many people be so perverted and yet so kind?
Before getting to the middle of the book, I really liked Mr. Cosey. He seemed to be a good man with a righteous heart. As I continued to read, my feelings for him changed. In the book, Morrison used love in many different types of relationships. She was able to show how people could love for the wrong reasons and love for the right reasons.
There were many issues that played into these types of relationships protrayed in the story. I still can't help but think of Mr. Cosey and his love for a young girl is granddaughters age. Eleven years old! I know in earlier times girls did marry young, but eleven. Mr. Cosey was near 40 years older than her when they married. Although I don't think that Mr. Cosey just had a thing for Heed but for his own granddaughter Christine. The way Morrison descirbes the picture of Mr. Cosey and Heed's wedding made it seem a little weird that Cosey was so intuned with his granddaughter and not his new wife of the same age.
Maybe these types of things were more excepted in those days, but me growing up in times completely different seems unlawful and socially unacceptable. Morrison really plays up the roles of race and class in the book. "The way Up Beach people were." Morrison gives a lot of adjectives to describe how the times were in those days and how they changed over time.
Morrison's book was very intriguing. At first it was a difficult to understand all of the characters because of how the story jumped around, but overall she put a good sense of love, desire, and sex into it. From the love Heed had for Mr. Cosey, the desire Mr. Cosey had for women, and the sex that was had by almost every character in the book from Romen to Mr. Cosey.
Before getting to the middle of the book, I really liked Mr. Cosey. He seemed to be a good man with a righteous heart. As I continued to read, my feelings for him changed. In the book, Morrison used love in many different types of relationships. She was able to show how people could love for the wrong reasons and love for the right reasons.
There were many issues that played into these types of relationships protrayed in the story. I still can't help but think of Mr. Cosey and his love for a young girl is granddaughters age. Eleven years old! I know in earlier times girls did marry young, but eleven. Mr. Cosey was near 40 years older than her when they married. Although I don't think that Mr. Cosey just had a thing for Heed but for his own granddaughter Christine. The way Morrison descirbes the picture of Mr. Cosey and Heed's wedding made it seem a little weird that Cosey was so intuned with his granddaughter and not his new wife of the same age.
Maybe these types of things were more excepted in those days, but me growing up in times completely different seems unlawful and socially unacceptable. Morrison really plays up the roles of race and class in the book. "The way Up Beach people were." Morrison gives a lot of adjectives to describe how the times were in those days and how they changed over time.
Morrison's book was very intriguing. At first it was a difficult to understand all of the characters because of how the story jumped around, but overall she put a good sense of love, desire, and sex into it. From the love Heed had for Mr. Cosey, the desire Mr. Cosey had for women, and the sex that was had by almost every character in the book from Romen to Mr. Cosey.
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