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Imagery In Like Water For Chocolate

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Like Water for Chocolate is a wonderful book full of fantasy. Laura Esquirel does and a wonderful job. She is best at having the reader notice the mirroring of the past with the present, feel the sensory details, and the imagery. You begin reading the book you are told about a character named Tita by the narrator. The narrator then begins to explain how tears brought her Great Aunt Tita to an early birth. When you continue reading the story you begin to tell that Tita was destined for a sad life. Esquirel’s book begins with great imagery of a child being born into the world knowing nothing, but tears. The reader understands this when the narrator states “The way Nacha told it, Tita was literally washed into this world on a great tide of tears …show more content…

At least then there would be some justification for not her to marry and giving Rosaura her place beside the man she loved.” (27) Though Tita did not say a word; Mama Elena “read the look on her face and flew into rage.” (27) The way Esquirel …show more content…

With that attention she is able to capitalize and add a twist to mirror the past. With the reader sucked into the book, one begins to wonder why Tita is in such a situation of a forbidden love. A general answer is that she is living a past life over again, but a more in depth answer is shown in “CHAPTER 7: Ox Tail Soup”. It is discovered that her own mother had a love a secret love she kept secret all her life with only letter to show the truth. Tita went and found a box that belonged to Mama Elena and was only touched by Tita after her mother’s death. In that box it was discovered she had a forbidden love that caused her to be forcefully married to a man named Juan, Tita’s father. This was shown by the author when she writes what Tita concluded from her mother’s letters that “Jose was the love of her life. She hadn’t been allowed to marry him because he had Negro blood in his veins….. They were horrified and forced her into an immediate marriage with Juan De la Garza.” (137) This new knowledge it demonstrates Mama Elena subconsciously having another motive to not allow Tita to marry Pedro and in a way making Tita relive Mama Elena’s life. The same type of life Elena had to live with, a life of oppression. This mirroring of lives is an effective way to support Tita’s destined life of struggle. The reason for that is that her mother being dead allows Tita start a life with no

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