He died of a heart attack a day after Tita's birth after learning that Gertrudis wasn't his daughter. Disappeared Dad: The father of the three De la Garza sisters.Pedro finds her as she literally expires, with her lips purple. Cruel and Unusual Death: Rosaura dies while in the middle of passing fetid, sonorous gas.Contemplating Your Hands: Tita does this for a short while after her mental breakdown.Invoked when Gertrudis gives birth to a octaroon baby and Juan accuses her of having an affair until Tita informs them of Gertrudis's parentage. Chocolate Baby: Subverted that Gertrudis does not have a lot of the obvious traits which fools Elena's husband for years.Chencha, when she gets raped and has Mama Elena's verbal abuse thrown at her.Physical abuse, emotional abuse, family burdens, broken heart, loss of loved ones and finally a total breakdown. And There Was Much Rejoicing: After Rosaura dies, Esperanza is free to marry Alex.Amicable Exes: Tita and John by the end of the book.Affair Letters: Elena had at least one child with a mulatto man, and Tita finds the letters about it after Elena dies.Abusive Parents: Is it possible to have ANY sympathy for Mama Elena?.The book was later adapted into a film directed by Alfonso Arau and released in 1992, which became the highest grossing Spanish-language film ever released in the United States at the time. The novel uses Magic Realism to mix the ordinary with the supernatural. Like Water for Chocolate is broken into twelve chapters, monthly installments, each containing a Mexican recipe important to the story at hand. He asks Mama Elena for Tita’s hand in marriage, but Mama Elena forbids it, citing the De la Garza family tradition which demands that the youngest daughter (in this case Tita) must remain unmarried and take care of her mother until her mother's death. Pedro, a ranch hand, and Tita fall in Love at First Sight. Her love for cooking also comes from the fact that she was actually born in the kitchen. Tita has a love of the kitchen and a deep connection with food, a skill enhanced by the fact that she was practically raised from birth by the cook.
It chronicles the story of Tita (full name: Josefita De La Garza), a fifteen year-old growing up during The Mexican Revolution with her mother, Mama Elena, her older sisters Gertrudis and Rosaura, the cook Nacha and maid Chencha on a ranch in Piedras Negras, a town near the Mexico – U.S.
Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish title: Como Agua Para Chocolate) is a 1989 Mexican novel by Laura Esquivel.
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