Like Water for Chocolate: Part dos

In this book my group and I are reading every chapter represents another month. I think this is very cool because you can follow a timeline by month. Every month that starts my group and I noticed starts with a new recipe that Tita is whipping up! She walks you through the process of cooking the meal. She goes into such detail about the meal I feel that I could make the same meal myself if I followed the instructions.

This isn't the only place that she is cooking or talks about making something. She makes stuff for all sorts of occassions! This reminds me of my house and family. We have certain meals that I almost expect to be made for certain events. For example my grandma's fried chicken on the fourth of july or my mothers country hash for my birthday! I can relate to like water for chocolate based souly on the food the emphasize in this book!

Like Water for Chocolate: Part 2

The next 50 pages really ups the intensity. The book becomes much more romantic and confusing, and you are rooting for lovers. So Tita has a lover named Pedro and they are madly in love, and then out of nowhere to me he goes and marries her sister. Reading this I was like "What the Heck man?!?!" And he marries her even though him and Tita are in love. Pedro gives Tita flowers and she doesnt throw them away because they are so beautiful. She makes a dish of rose peddals.

Next to add to the chaos Titas sister runs away with a soldier from the war, and he took her away while she was naked! It sounds just as odd to me as it does to you.

Even though this book is random and odd at parts i find it very interesting. The distinct connection between the sexuality and food is very strong. They make many different references to chocolate and she makes a rose peddal dish. All of it is tying a certain theme to the book together.

Like Water for Chocolate: Part 1

The book started out in an interesting way (NOT STRANGE). It immediatley started out with the way to prepare and cut onions. It started out in a way I have never read before. I mean in the sense of the writing, not the actual subject of the onions. haha It goes into deatil about how cutting onions can make you cry. The girl tells about how the onions made her great aunt cry because she was extra sensitive to them. Granted I have never cut an onion before, so I have never experienced the water works that the process includes. When it says she sobs from cutting onions I dont think I ever want too!
       The book continues to talk about how the family would make sausage together and how they cooked it. It also talks about the smells that accompanied the sausage. The smell would bring back memories from the past and events that were not even present in the room with her. It reminds of things that I smell that take me back to memories and events that occurred when that smell was lingering around. For example when I smell any scent of vanilla it reminds me of my grandparents house, because whenever we go over there my grandma is always burning a vanilla bean candle. That scent just brings up happy emotions for me even though nothing in the room is causing that other than the scent.On that note I am very excited to see how the book plays out from here!

Hunger Games chaps 6-18

  Whilst immersing myself into the world of the Hunger Games I couldn't help but think about what if it was real life? With this thought in mind this book became much more intense and deep. While watching the movie I always thought to myself "Self, Why do they make friends in the arena if there can only be one winner? Isn't this hard enough on them as it is? Why become emotionally attached to someone?" It never made sense to me why Katniss would care so much about Rue, when even in the best case scenario one of them had to die.  That was my thought while watching the theatrical performance on the big screen.

   My thoughts changed completely when I was reading these chapters. Katniss truly deeply cares for Rue because thats all shes ever known, is taking care of other people. This speaks volumes about the character Collins was trying to portray in this book. Katniss is loving and soft hearted but also very hardened to the world and will do whatever it takes to make sure those that she cares about are taken care of. I kept thinking "What would I do in this situation?" and after reading these chapters I would just really be hoping to be Peeta haha.
  I have never been a big reader as I have said before but I cannot put this book down.