First and foremost, Esquivel uses magic realism in the form of Tita’s birth. Esquivel states that “Tita was so sensitive to onions, anytime they were being chopped, they say she would just cry and cry; …show more content…
The blanket was almost like an escape for Tita, she would knit the blanket every night before she went to bed. Esquivel states that “Finally she had went to her sewing box and pulled out the bedspread she had started the day Pedro first spoke of marriage. A bedspread like that, a crocheted one, takes about a year to complete. Exactly the length of time Pedro and Tita had planned to wait before getting married” (17-18). The blanket was sort of her comfort for the time she had to wait in order to marry Pedro, but the blanket did not help. The blanket was about one kilometer, which is quite long for a blanket. Esquivel also states that “Tita used any yarn she happened to have in her bedspread, no matter what the color, and it revealed a kaleidoscopic combination of colors, textures, and forms that appeared and disappeared as if by magic in the gigantic cloud of dust that rose up behind it”