She shares special points of her favorite preparations with listeners throughout the story. From the Hardcover edition. Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Mexico became a bestselling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit.
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Inspired by Your Browsing History. She vows not to let it ruin her niece's life as it did hers. John and his deaf great-aunt come over and Tita tells him that she cannot marry him. Tita is overcome with sorrow and cold, and begins to eat a box of candles. The narrator of the story is the daughter of Esperanza, nicknamed "Tita", after her great-aunt.
She describes how after the fire, the only thing that survived under the smoldering rubble of the ranch was Tita's cookbook, which contained all the recipes described in the preceding chapters.
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At the beginning of the novel, Tita was a generally submissive young lady. As the novel progresses, Tita learns to disobey the injustice of her mother, and gradually becomes more and more adept at expressing her inner fire through various means. Cooking through enlightenment she learned to express her feelings, and cope with her mother. Mama Elena often resorts to violence as she forces Tita to obey her. Many of the responsibilities she imposes on Tita, especially those relating to Pedro and Rosaura's wedding, are blatant acts of cruelty, given Tita's pain over losing Pedro.
Mama Elena meets Tita's slightest protest with angry tirades and beatings.
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If she even suspects that Tita has not fulfilled her duties, she beats her. One example is when she thought that Tita intentionally ruined the wedding cake. When Tita dares to stand up to her mother, blaming her for Roberto's death, Mama Elena smacks her across the face, breaking her nose.
Since Mama Elena must protect herself and her family from bandits and revolutionaries, her cruelty could be interpreted for strength.
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Then again, Tita's later illusions indicate that Mama Elena's actions were far from typical and deeply scarred Tita. The romantic love that is so exalted throughout the novel is forbidden by Tita's mother in order to blindly enforce the tradition that the youngest daughter be her mother's chaste guardian. However, the traditional etiquette enforced by Mama Elena is defied progressively throughout the novel. This parallels the setting of the Mexican Revolution growing in intensity.
The novel further parallels the Mexican Revolution because during the Mexican Revolution the power of the country was in the hands of a select few and the people had no power to express their opinions.
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Likewise, in Like Water for Chocolate , Mama Elena represents the select few who had the power in their hands, while Tita represents the people because she had no power to express her opinions but had to obey her mother's rules. Tita is born in the kitchen—a place that foreshadows her calling. Due to the tradition that requires the youngest daughter to care for her mother, Mama Elena forbids Tita from falling in love, marrying, or becoming pregnant, forcing her to work in the kitchen. As she becomes a young woman, Tita appears to conform to the gender role her mother expects; however, Tita rebels, creatively devising a way in which she can express her suppressed feelings and emotions through her cooking.
She has the magical ability to send her desires and emotions into the food she prepares. Tita bakes the wedding cake for her sister Rosaura and the man she wishes she was marrying, Pedro. Deeply depressed about the fact that her sister is marrying her one true love, she places her feelings of despair and sadness into the wedding cake.
When the guests eat the cake, they weep over their lost loves and eventually became intoxicated and sick. Rosaura becomes physically ill while Getrudis is instantly aroused. Even though Tita is not allowed to share her intimate feelings, she conveys her passions to the world through the action of cooking and sharing her food.
Food is also one of the major themes in the story which is seen throughout the story. Shocked he suffers a heart attack and dies. Mama Elena tells Nacha that she can no longer have any more children and that her youngest child, Tita, will never marry but instead stay home to take care of her until her death. Mama Elena's two oldest daughters Rosaura and Gertudis will however be able to marry. As Tita grows Nacha teaches her all responsibilities of running a kitchen. In Tita has grown into a beautiful young woman and has fallen in love with a young man named Pedro.
Pedro confesses his love to Tita and offers his hand in marriage.
Tita tells her Mama Elena about Pedro, only for Mama Elena to aggressively reinforce Tita's permanent position in the home. The next day Pedro arrives with his father to officially ask Mama Elena for Tita's hand in marriage. Mama Elena explains her reasoning for not accepting the marriage proposal and instead offers Rosaura's hand.
Pedro accepts the offer, Tita is devastated, Gertrudis is annoyed, and Rosaura is excited about the marriage. While making the wedding cake with Nacha, an unconsolable Tita continuously cries and her tears fall into the cake batter. After the wedding ceremony, Pedro tells Tita that he married Rosaura to be close to her.
Later, when the guests begin to eat the wedding cake, everyone is overcome with sadness of the loss of their true loves and becomes physically sick. Mama Elena runs into the house to look at a picture of the man she had an affair with.
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Tita finds Nacha dead holding a picture of her deceased husband. Months later, Rosaura becomes pregnant. Pedro gives Tita a bouquet of roses in front of Mama Elena and Rosaura. Mama Elena demands that Tita throw them away, but Tita uses the roses in a quail sauce that evening for dinner. Upon eating the dinner, Pedro, Gertrudis and Mama Elena are filled with sensual and romantic passion, and Rosaura becomes ill. After dinner, Pedro and Tita watch as Gertrudis runs off with a rebel leader.
Tita tells Mama Elena that Gertrudis was kidnapped by the rebels. Believing that Gertrudis is now a ruined woman, Mama Elena burns Gertrudis' belongings and bans everyone from speaking her name. However, Tita has been secretly communicating with Gertrudis and sends her the rest of her belongings. Rosaura gives birth to a sickly son named Roberto.
Tita personally nurses Roberto and his health shows improvement. Mama Elena becomes increasingly suspicious of Tita and Pedro's activities. Without Tita's care, Roberto becomes sick and dies. Chencha, a housemaid, informs Tita and Mama Elena. Tita is devastated resulting in an outburst at Mama Elena. Mama Elena responds by hitting Tita in the face with a wooden spoon causing her nose to bleed. Tita runs into the house attic and stays there for a few days. John Brown, a family doctor, takes Tita to his home in Texas to treat her. Chencha visits Tita when she is well and Tita tells her that she will not be returning to Mama Elena.
Brown becomes attracted to Tita and proposes to her.
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Tita accepts his marriage proposal. Bandits invade Mama Elena's home and attack the servants. Chencha is raped and Mama Elena is murdered. Tita returns home for Mama Elena's funeral. While going through Mama Elena's belongings, Tita discovers evidence of Mama Elena's past love affair. It is implied that one of Tita's older sisters is the result of the affair. Pedro and a pregnant Rosaura return for Mama Elena's funeral. Rosaura gives birth to a healthy baby girl named Esperanza. As a result, Rosaura is unable to have more children. Keeping with the family tradition, Rosaura states that Esperanza will never marry, to the dismay of Tita and Pedro.
Upon finding out about Tita's engagement to Dr.