Upon the birth of Tita, her mother flooded the kitchen table and floor when her water broke. The fluid had turned to salt and had to be swept up off the floor. This type of thing happening in the real world is not going to happen. The fluid turning into the salt was definitely a magical realism element. The

The inner feeling of a person that has a boundary or threshold inside of them ready to ignite was what happened to the shower when Tita's sister was in it. The threshold of the inner feelings of this girl was exploding. During her shower, the inner feelings of passion exploded, and flames from the passion that she was feeling caused the shower to catch on fire. In the excitement of the burning shower house, the girl ran out of the shower without any clothes, not even a towel. The magical realism was all the passion the girl had inside her that just erupted like a volcano. The sublime of the girl setting the shower on fire with all of her passion was that the threshold had been crossed and the inhuman had to happen.

fluid from the birth drying up like salt is similar to the sublime. The mysteries of cooking are treated in Like Water for Chocolate. The sublime seems to have a definition of being inhuman, an image that cannot be named. The magical realism has the definition of being magical and unreal.

Storytellers may need magic for the magical realism of this story (163). Storytellers need the sublime so the stories may have the " sublime is the inhuman" attitude (1). Opinions of some are that there are no difference between the magical realism and the sublime. It seems that both are magical and that they both may be somewhat inhuman. The facts are written in the books American Sublime and readings

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