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Grenouille And Tita De La Garza In Like Water For Chocolate

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In this essay I will be writing about the two main characters of the novels we read this partial which were somehow alike, Tita de la Garza from Like Water for Chocolate, and Jean-Baptiste Grenouille who belongs to Pefume, about their similarities, but also their differences, showing which were their attributes and how they develop according to the story.
The first similarity shown in the books has to be between the protagonists, Tita and Jean-Baptiste, with the unique attributes each of them possess. Tita de la Garza is gifted with cooking skills, while Grenouille is gifted with the capacity of smelling the essence of anything. The fact that both main characters own a unique skill makes the novel’s subject revolve around them. In Perfume the …show more content…

On the other hand, Tita was in fact deeply in love of another character of the story, Pedro Muzquiz, and as the story goes on Tita’s feelings change, instead of deeply in love she falls into a deep sadness, because of the tradition her family follows her mother prohibits her to marry her lover Pedro and instead Pedro marries her

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