This chapter takes place on Mama Elena' ranch once again.
The recipe for this chapter is a dish of quail covered with a type of rose sauce.
At the beginning, Pedro gives Tita some pink roses. The now pregnant Rosaura sees this and runs away crying. Mama Elena gets angry at Tita for being close to Pedro and tells her to throw the roses away. Not wanting to get rid of such pretty, now bloody roses, Tita uses them in a dish with quails. When Tita serves the meal and evryone starts eating, they all start feeling very strange from the food. Pedro feels the love Tita feels for him, Gertrudis feels really heated and passionate as she suddenly thinks of the soldier she saw in the village and is smitten with, Mama Elena is salty, and Rosaura just feels sick. Being so heated up, Gertrudis runs to the shower to cool off. However, the heat emitting from her body cause the shower to catch on fire and for Gertrudis to run out naked as a jaybird. Juan the soldier from the village, smells the scent of roses and follows it. It leads him to Gertrudis and he is immediantly in love. So he picks her up on his horse and they ride off into the distance. Pedro and Tita, having seen the whole thing tell Mama Elena she was kidnapped, causing her to go into a frenzy of burning all Gertrudis's pictures and her birth certificate. At the end of the chapter, Tita looks up at the stars, hoping she will one day experience the passion and happiness Gertrudis is with her lover.
-Ashley
This is a very good and detailed blog post. I agree that everyone started feeling sick after eating the meal. DO you think this is a symbol to anything with the chapter or the relationship between characters? This chapter is different from other chapters because of the mood. Tita felt sorrow and jealousy throughout the majority of this chapter. Most of this triggered because of the fact that she saw how Gertrudis just run off with her love and Tita wished she could do this. It seemed so easy for Gertrudis and Tita knows that Mama Elena would not let Tita get away with this. I wonder why Mama Elena cares so much that Tita stays, considering the way she acts as if she hates her.
ReplyDeleteI like that in this post you included the recipe, which is usually a key thing in the chapter. My group had "heat" as our symbol and this chapter has many moments of it. Personally I don't agree with the fat that everyone got sick I think that they all felt different emotions and feelings. The shower scene with Gertrudis is filled with heat. When the walls burst into flames and the water evaporates before it touches her body is very good signs of heat. Usually when Tita is hot are in a mood she adds to her bedspread and makes it bigger. Do you think that the symbol heat has anything to with the bedspread? This chapter has a lot of different symbols and all of them, I think, are added to the bedspread.
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