These elements are found throughout the text. However, despite the fact that these two stories have in common some characteristics of the Sublime, they also retain distinct differences in relation to other characteristics. One similarity between Magical Realism and the Sublime is the use of Transformation. Transformation is employed to express intense emotion throughout Like Water for Chocolate. The emotions of the main character, Tita, are conveyed through actual events.
Emotions penetrate the real world.
In Like Water for Chocolate, a transformation occurs when Tita's feelings of sadness are passed to others. Tita's tears drop into the batter of a cake she is preparing. Even Pedro, usually so proper, was having trouble holding back his tears. Everyone there, every last person, fell under this spell, and not very many of them made it to the bathrooms in time. And had never let those words leak out, those foul, filthy, frightful, repulsive, revolting, unreasonable words.