Both stories had passion in people's lives, enough to bring out magical realism. It all seemed so real in the story of Like Water for Chocolate and in Frankl's story of man's search for meaning. Grotesque things happened in both stories, even, for example, in Frankl's story, all the murders and the holocaust of being in a prison camp for so long and knowing that his family had been murdered and that he didn't there was nothing anyone could do about this tragedy. In Tita's story, the problem was the fact that the love of her life was marrying her sister and there was nothing she could do about the situation. The power of passion was with the characters in the stories even if one was real and the other was real