Like Water For Chocolate Character Analysis

The fluids that you produce represent your current emotions, and the volumetric rate at which you excrete these fluids directly represents the intensity or type of emotion. Weeping usually demonstrates sadness, but on some occasions tears show a degree of happiness. Bleeding typically shows a sign of injury, although a menstrual blood flow is a sign of life. Perspiration is the natural coolant of hard workers across any nation, and a byproduct of consummation. One of the greatest surprises of Like Water for Chocolate is when; “Tita was literally washed into this world on a great tide of tears that spilled over the edge of the table and flooded across the kitchen floor (Esquivel 6)”. The absurdity that would follow such an event brings a tear

For example the first sight of blood comes at the expense of forbidden love, “Pedro though it would nice to bring her [Tita] a bouquet of roses to celebrate her first year as ranch cook. But Rosura – who was expecting her first child – did not agree, and when she saw him walk in carrying a boquet for Tita, instead of her, she burst into tears and ran from the room (48)”. When Tita is tasked with the prompt removal of the roses Pedro gifted to her she embraces the roses tightly, “Tita clasped the roses to her chest so tightly that when she got to the kitchen, the roses, which had been mostly pink, had turned quite red from the blood that was flowing from Tita’s hands and breasts (48)”. Although Mama Elena would rather Tita just throw the bouquet away, Tita decides to incorporate the rose petals into a meal that Nacha had told her about, Quail in rose petal sauce. In addition Tita prepared the meal just as she would any other, but no one would be prepared for the alchemical reaction that Tita’s blood and the rose petal sauce would have together, “Rosura, saying she was feeling sick and getting nauseous, barely took three bites. But something strange was happening with Gertrudis. On her the food seemed to act as an aphrodisiac, she began to feel an intense heat pulsing through her limbs (50)”. The pain that Tita endured to carefully orchestrate a dish of

For example when Gertrudis consumes the quail in rose petal sauce meal that Tita prepared from the roses given to her by Pedro, “She began to sweat, imagining herself on horseback with her arms clasped around one of Pancho Villa’s men: the one she had seen in the village plaza the week before, smelling of sweat and mud of dawns that brought uncertainty and danger, smelling of life and death (51)”. Notice how sweat is used to define not only how Gertrudis’ body reacts from the aphrodisiac meal, but also the way the fantasized soldier smells, a memorable scent that was carried in her thoughts. In addition to Gertrudis’ reaction at the table, “Gertrudis was really stricken; her whole body was dripping with sweat. Her sweat was pink, and smelled like roses, a lovely strong smell (52)”. The scent of sweat is rather sickly-sweet, for some it holds a memory of a pleasant presence, and for others it reminds them of a greasy fast food restaurant that claims subpar