Saturday, April 17, 2010

In the movie "Tortilla Soup", we learned that all the character have a different type of lifestyle. However, the one that took my attention was Carmen for different reasons. Carmer not only was the career woman, but also she caress about her father more than her other sisters. She was not affraid in making decisions and make big moves in her life.

Carmen besides of being the oldest sister, she was a career woman. She wants to achieve all her goals and every member of her family respect her decisions. She dresses always casual and eventhought that her priorities are her job, she also caress for her family and friends. For example: she helped up to change the look of her sister leticia so she can get a boyfriend. Also, she went to see his father's friend inmediatly as soon as they called her to tell her that he was sick in the hospital. They had a conversation between him and Carmen that later made her change her mind about her job. When his father's frienf die, she was so sad and worried for her fathers lonlyness. She insisted him that he needed a woman that can spent the rest of his life. Since his best friend was no more alive, Carmen realized that her father would fall in depresion and also die.

She had a boyfriend but he cheated on her. She finished with this relationship and yet her priority was her job and her family that this notice did not put her down because she was a strong woman. When she was promoted in her job, she was supposed to move to Spain. But, the conversation that she had with his father's friend made her realized that her family was more important in her life. Especially because her father was more lonely than ever and her sisters have moved on with their live and did not live anymore with him. She decided to give up to this job opportunity and do what she really made her happy. Suddenly, she found out that she can cook as her father did and she stayed in charge of the kitchen where her father used to work.

In summary, Carmen was not only a career woman with a lot of opportunities in her life,but she was the daughter that eventhought she was ambitious she cares for the happiness of her family. She gave up to the opportunity to have the job of her dreams just to stay with family and made her father happy.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Food and Communication can lead to people to do good or bad things.

The human being not only need food to survive, but also need to communicate to people in order of expressing their thoughts and feelings. If people do not eat they eventually will die, and if they do not talk to others, the feeling of the heart and the spirit of the person will die also.

As i have mentioned, there are two ways how people can survive into society by eating, and by communicating. In like water for chocolate we have learned that Tita does not have a good relationship with her mother. In despite, Tita was allocated to spend the rest of her life in one place only. Tita had no other choice than just to cook and keep the house clean. But, eventually she found a way to feel a litle big better with herself. By cooking tita found that she can transmit her thoughts and feelings to the rest of the people. Tita is a perfect example to describe that a person can not hold for so long their secrets, doubts, or emotions because the heart get affected and the spirit of a person get sick and depress.

Since Tita and Pedro were not allow to get marry their love were forbitten. Tita's mother tried always to kept them apart. And making for them so difficult to talk one each other. But, the way how Tita could say to Pedro and the rest of the people that she still love him, was how she got to prepare the food. Her food always had a good taste. and also a kind of magic that make to people to act as the Tita's emotions. According to the book, if Tita was sad, people got sick by eating her food, but when Tita was happy, her food made people to act wild as unusuall. So we can say that for the most part people always feel better and release once they have communicated and share their problems or news to other people.

In the book of J, after God created Adam, he saw that he was alone and he created Eva so Adam could have someone who can share their life. But, when I say share a life, I mean also that the humans need to communicate their thoughts one each other. When people keep always quiet and never share their opinions, those people tend more to live a sour life and become mentally ill for holding so much in their heart. On the other hand, we have learned that food and communication can also have a big impact in our life. For example, a piece of fruit was that caused to change the life of Adam and Eva. Eva was enticed by someone to eat a fruit. She decided to communicate this to Adam and she also offered the fuit to him. If they would not listen to the sneak they would not have eaten the fruit and their life would not change and were not being punished by God.

To conclude, we are clear that food and communication are very essential in order to survive. Since God created Adam and Eve, the food was always a way to communicate their thoughts. And wheter can be bad or good thoughts, we need of this two thing in order to live in this world.