Like Water For Chocolate Chapter Analysis

In Laura Esquivel’s novel Like Water for Chocolate, the chapters are arranged by food recipes, and an important part of the book are the traditions , and they’re also a very important part of the Mexican tradition. Esquivel’s novel includes recipes in to the book to tell the story, and this is what makes Esquivel’s novel different from most books. However, the recipes used in the book, are not only formulas, but they’re memories being passed on from generations. The recipes are an important part of the book, as each chapter begins there’s a new recipe for each chapter, and they are used to tell how Tita’s life is throughout the novel, Tita is the main character in Like Water for Chocolate. Like Water for Chocolate tells a story of Tita De La Garza, a young girl that lives with her family, and she is the youngest daughter in the De La Garza family which lives in Mexico around the twentieth century. Pedro, the guy Tita loves comes to the De La Garza’s ranch to ask for Tita’s hand in marriage, but Tita is the youngest daughter so she is forbidden to marry and she is being held back by her oppressive mother, Mama Elena. Since Pedro wasn’t able to marry Tita he married Rosaura, Tita’s older sister, and

Throughout the novel the recipes are based on what’s happening in the chapter, and also how the character is affected by the food or how they react while making the food. Mexican women know how to make really good food, and also they should be able to make it because its not only a tradition that Mexicans pass on through each generation, but also it depends how the food is prepared and if it prepared with love like Tita prepared each dish throughout the novel ,or on the contrary with hatred and sorrow like Rosaura did at a point in the book when she decided to cook, but her dish didn’t result good due to hatred and