Susan Gray - Titanic: Vegan Recipes for Lovers

Centering on the themes of true love, loss, loyalty, differences in social classes, and death as a leveler; the Titanic movie set in the year 1912 but produced in 1997 tells the story of how two strangers from different sides of the "tracks" met on a ship heading to New York, fell in love, and died in love in the midst of a wrecking ship and other controversies.

The strangers being Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater met and fell in love under unsavory circumstances.

The movie started with how Brock Lovett and his team of treasure hunters got on the Keldysh, on a quest to find the Heart of the Ocean diamond necklace among the remains of the wrecked Titanic ship.

On getting there, all they found was a nude portrait of a young woman sporting the diamond necklace.

Not long after, an old woman of about 100 years old who after watching a TV program where Brock talked about what he found, came out and verified that she was the woman in the portrait.

She was brought aboard the Keldysh where she told the tale of what happened on the Titanic.

Her tale now takes the viewers back to the year 1912 when the Titanic set sail on the Atlantic Ocean towards New York.

The ship had diverse kinds of boarders on board which include Rose, a beautiful and unconventional young lady who has been espoused to get married to the rude, arrogant, domineering, and cocky rich Cal Hockley, by her mother as a way of leveling up in the society.

While bemoaning her fate and contemplating suicide, Rose met Jack, a homeless, carefree, and poor artist (who won a trip on the Titanic at a poker game) who not only saved her from falling off the edge of the ship's stern but also saved her from getting married to a nightmare of a husband.

The duo kicked off a friendship that led to her asking him to draw her like one of his French girls (to draw her naked with nothing on than Cal's engagement present to her - The Heart of the Ocean diamond necklace).

The latter obliged and that led to a blossoming and beautiful love affair between the duo, not the forget the steaming lovemaking session in the cargo hold.

Cal caught wind of the affair and then accuses Jack of stealing the necklace (which Rose had returned to his safe by now alongside a scornful and offensive letter).

Jack was searched and unfortunately, the necklace was found in his pocket, a ploy orchestrated by Cal and his bodyguard, Lovejoy.

Jack was arrested and handcuffed to a pipe in the master-at-the-arms' office. At this point, the ship has hit the iceberg, and things were already going wrong on the ship, water entering into the ship from the cracks from the hit.

The next couple of events showed the boarders trying to get off the sinking ship. While some people like Cal succeeded through the aid of lifeboats, Jack and Rose couldn't make it, and we see them trying to stay alive and dry after the ship broke finally, with Rose on a plank of wood (a door actually) on the surface of the water and Jack submerged up to his shoulders in the chilly ocean.

At the painful end, Jack died from the coldness of the water after which Rose and other survivors were saved by the RMS Carpathia.

Rose got to New York and took Jack's last name as her last name.

We are now taken back to the beginning where we see the 100-year-old Rose throw the necklace into the sea and died a peaceful death in bed surrounded by pictures of her life.

After which she was reunited with Jack in the afterlife...

Hope you enjoyed this summary of your favorite love movie, and we hoped it brought back memories and maybe a couple of tears from your eyes.

Don't be shy if it made you cry, we do each time we remember the scene where Rose lets go of Jack's hands, and he went straight down into the ocean.

It was such a heart wrenching sight.

Anyway, you need to dry your eyes (we are drying ours too), as we get started on our vegan Titanic-themed Cookbook!!!