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Como Agua Para Chocolate Character Analysis

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Gertrudis’ departure sends the ranch on an uproar. In her leaving the ranch it symbolizes freedom. Freedom, because she does not have to obey to her mother anymore. She is her own person now and not a slave to her mother, Mama Elena. “Each year Tita prepared it in tribute to her sister’s liberation and she always took special care in arranging the garnish.” (Esquivel, 57). Tita acknowledges that her sister has broken her chains and does not abide by her mother’s rule. This is proven with the way she rode off with the General. Fully naked in the arms of her love, with a burning sensation inside her, she made love to the General on top of a horse as they rode off. All of the things her mother would fully be ashamed of and punish those actions. …show more content…

This will want to make Tita rebel and want to be like her sister. “As she worked, images of Gertrudis went around and around in her head: Gertrudis running through the field, and what she imagined had happened later, after her sister had disappeared from sight. Needless to say, her imagination was limited there by her lack of experience.”(Esquivel, 57). Tita wishes she could have sex with Pedro, her love. To be able to touch and feel him just the way her sister did to the General. She wishes she could be as brave and run away and create her own life just like Gertrudis and not be her mother’s slave. While Mama Elena on the other hand disowns her own daughter, Gertrudis. Mama Elena will not allow such behavior like that in her ranch or even want to be affiliated with someone who lost her purity before marriage. “Mama Elena burned Gertrudis’ birth certificate and all of her pictures and said she didn’t want to hear her name mentioned ever again.” (Esquivel,57). Mama Elena’s emotions towards her own daughter have been erased out of her life. She wants nothing to do with Gertrudis and has forbidden everyone in her ranch to mention anything about

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