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LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE Laura Esquivel
Maria Cecilia Celada Crizelle Anne Marie Roquero
Jobelle Salvador Alma Siobal IV-8 BEEd
Author’s Biography, Period
and
Summary
Author’s Biography
Esquivel was born in September 30, 1951 in Mexico, the third of four children of Julio Caesar Esquivel, a telegraph operator, and his wife, Josephina. Esquivel grew up in Mexico City and attended the Escuela Normal de Maestros, the national teachers' college. After teaching school for eight years, Esquivel began writing and directing for children's theater.
In an interview with Molly O'Neill in the New York Times. Esquivel explained, "I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room. The smell of nuts and chilies and garlic got all mixed up with the smells from the chapel, my grandmother's carnations. the liniments and healing herbs." These experiences in her family's kitchen provided the inspiration for Esquivel's first novel.
Period - a 1992 film in the style of
magical realism - based on the popular novel,
published in 1989 - It earned all 11 Ariel awards of
the Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures including the
Ariel Award for Best Picture Highest grossing Spanish-
language film ever released in the United States at the time.
Tita De La Garza is the youngest in their family
so she is tied to their family tradition wherein she is
not allowed to marry because she have to take
care of her mother until she dies. Because of that,
Pedro Musquiz, the person she loves marry her other
sister, Rosaura, so that they are still near to each
other. Rosaura give birth to Roberto. Tita is the one
who take care and feed the child. Because of that,
Tita and Pedro become closer that make Mama
Elena (the mother of Tita) suspicious so she sent
Pedro and Rosaura to San Antonio.
Summary
Tita feel depressed. It intensify more when a
news came that is telling the death of her nephew.
Mama Elena ordered to put Tita in an Asylum but Dr.
John secretly bring her to his home. Tita decided to
not come back anymore but a news came that
their ranch is raided that leaves Mama Elena
paralyzed. She goes back to the ranch to take care
her mother but Mama Elena refuses. After a month,
her mother died that makes her free so she decided
to accepts the proposal of Dr. John.
Summary
Pedro and Rosaura goes back with their
second child, Esperanza. Tita and Pedro formed an
affair. Tita thought that she is pregnant but after
some days, she bleeds.
After some time, Rosaura died. Making Pedro
and Tita to expressed their love for each other
freely. Later, Esperanza and Alex (the son of Dr.
John) got married. After that, Tita and Pedro make
love. Because of the intensity of their love for each
other, Pedro died that is followed by Tita. The ranch
was set on fire and the only thing that survives is the
recipe book of Tita.
Summary
January: Christmas Rolls February: Chabela Wedding Cake March: Quail in Rose Petal Sauce April: Turkey Mole with Almonds and Sesame Seeds May: Northern Style Chorizo June: A Recipe for Making Matches
Chapter Organization:
Month by Month
July: Ox Tail Soup
August: Champandongo
September: Chocolate
and Three Kings Day
Bread
October: Cream Fritters
November: Beans with
Chile Tezcucana Style
December: Chiles in
Walnut Sauce
Josefita (TITA) De La
Garza
Protagonist of the novel The youngest daughter
of Mama Elena Prohibited by family
tradition from marrying so that she will be free to take care of her mother later in life
Elena De La Garza
(Mama Elena)
The tyrannical, widowed matriarch of the De La Garza clan
The prime source of Tita's suffering
She keeps Tita from her true love, Pedro
Rosaura De La Garza
The second daughter of Mama Elena
Rosaura marries Pedro
Her first child, Roberto, dies as an infant;
her second, Esperanza, prohibited like Tita
from ever marrying, weds Alex after she
dies.
Gertrudis De La Garza
The eldest daughter of
Mama Elena Returns to the ranch as a
general in the revolutionary army
She is the offspring of a hidden, extramarital affair between Mama Elena and her true love, a mulatto man.
Pedro Muzquiz
Tita's true love, and the eventual father of Roberto and Esperanza.
Denied marriage to Tita
by Mama Elena, he agrees to marry Rosaura, breaking Tita's heart.
Dr. John Brown
An American doctor who cares for Tita when she experiences a breakdown, and the father of Alex.
Tita becomes engaged to him, but eventually denies his marriage to pursue Pedro.
Nacha
The ranch cook The prime caretaker
for Tita throughout her childhood
She is also the source for most of the recipes in the novel
Chencha
The ranch maid She becomes Tita's companion in the kitchen after
Nacha's death.
Roberto Muzquiz
The first child of Rosaura and Pedro Dies in America after being taken away from Tita's
care.
Esperanza Muzquiz
The second child of Rosaura and Pedro The mother of the narrator in the novel She is raised by Tita in the kitchen
Alex Brown
The son of Dr. John Brown The father of the narrator He marries Esperanza
Nicolas
The manager of the ranch
Juan Alejandrez
The captain in the military who took Gertrudis and eventually marries her.
Jesus Martinez
Chencha's first love and husband.
Character
Setting
Plot
Conflict
Theme
Elements of the Story
The main setting in this novel is set on the
De La Garza’s ranch in the rural part of Mexico.
In the middle of the story, the setting changes
as Tita moves in the village of Dr. John.
However, when time comes that Nacha died
Tita spends most of her time in the kitchen as a ranch head cook.
Mexican Revolution (1910-1917)
During this time, peasants and natives
banded together under the leadership of figures
such as Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata to
reject the old order's dictatorship, revive
democracy, and claim Mexico for the everyday
man and woman.
For most of Mexico's developing history, a
small minority of the people were in control of
most of the country's power and wealth, while the
majority of the population worked in poverty.
Esquivel uses the revolution to explore
themes of masculinity and gender identity,
and examine how individuals appropriate
for themselves the revolution's goal of
liberty.
Overall, this was a time of political
unrest in Mexico, which left the everyday
citizens in constant fear of looting and
violence by soldiers/militia.
Character
Setting
Plot
Conflict
Theme
Elements of the Story
Plot
Tita De La Garza is the youngest in the
De La Garza family. One day, Pedro
Muzquiz, Tita’s love, comes to their home to
ask for her family’s blessing in their
marriage. But the De La Garza family have
a tradition wherein the youngest in the
family will take care their mother, who is
Elena, until she dies. Because of that, Pedro
decided to marry Tita’s sister, Rosaura,
because in his mind, it is the only way to stay
closer with Tita.
One afternoon, Tita cooks a delicious
food with the petals of roses that is given to her by Pedro. It gives a different effect
on Gertrudis, the other sister of Tita, which
cause her to flew away, naked, with a
soldier.
On the other hand, Rosaura give birth
to Roberto. Tita is the one who feed him
and at some point, Tita unbelievably produces milk from her breast even she
don’t have a child.
Mama Elena is suspicious about
the relationship of Tita and Pedro so she
sent Pedro and Rosaura to San Antonio.
After some time, a news came telling
that Roberto died which greatly affect
Tita. So, Mama Elena ordered to put Tita
in an Asylum but their family doctor, Dr.
John secretly bring Tita to his home.
Little by little, Tita recovers and decided
not to go back to the ranch.
The ranch was raided by the rebels,
Chencha was raped and Mama Elena was severely injured. Tita went back to the
ranch to took care of her mother. Mama
Elena treated Tita roughly and believe that
Tita is putting poison on her food. Later,
Mama Elena died because of overdose.
Tita found a box containing letters of
Mama Elena. From that, she found out an affair between Mama Elena and another
man.
Tita was given the freedom
she wants because of the death
of her mother. As a result, she
accepts the engagement
proposal of John.
Pedro and Rosaura returned
to the ranch and have their
second child, Esperanza.
When Pedro knew about the
engagement, she talks to Tita about
his love for her that put Tita in
confusion. That night, they make love.
After a while, Tita felt that she is
pregnant. She don’t know what to do
and to who she can talk to. It came to
the point where Mama Elena’s ghost appeared to her, telling how disgustful
and scandalous she is.
Gertudis return to the ranch
as a general. Tita confided to her,
and Gertrudis advised Tita to tell it
immediately to Pedro. Pedro is
very happy and serenaded Tita
outside her window that caused
an accident that burn Pedro.
Again, Mama Elena’s ghost
appear and talk to Tita, but this
time, Tita fight back that cause
the ghost to totally disappear
along with her pregnancy.
Tita took care of Pedro, using
the techniques that John taught
to her. After that, John came
back and Tita confess to him
about her affair with Pedro. Pedro
told that he still want to marry Tita,
but the decision is on Tita’s hands.
After several years, Esperanza
and Alex (the son of John) got
married. Rosaura has died. That
night, Tita and Pedro make love to
the room where they first make
love. It is full of candle lights. Their
love for each other is so intense
that cause Pedro to die, Tita
followed him.
After that, the ranch was
set on fire and the only
remains was the recipe book
of Tita that serves as the history
of the De La Garza family.
Character
Setting
Plot
Conflict
Theme
Elements of the Story
When Tita and Pedro make love in the
darkroom and Tita thought she was
pregnant. She was torn between her love
for Pedro and Dr. John. It brought a conflict
when she and Rosaura had gotten into a
fight about their love for Pedro and their
families tradition.
Tita’s duties and responsibilities set us a
major conflict in the story, because as the
youngest in the family, she can’t marry the
one she loved. Family tradition requires Tita
to reject Pedro’s love in order to take care
of her mother until she dies. Therefore she
focus her love for cooking.
Character
Setting
Plot
Conflict
Theme
Elements of the Story
TRADITION
The tradition enforced by Mama Elena is
defied progressively throughout the novel. In the
first chapter of the novel, Tita is very dedicated to
her duties and responsibilities as a cook because
she and Nacha were bestfriends from the very
start.
The romantic love that is exalted
throughout the novel is forbidden in order to
blindly enforce the tradition that the youngest
daughter be her mother's guardian.
OBEDIENCE
Mama Elena, being the authoritative one in
the ranch, Tita must obey all the difficult tasks
that her mother assigned her to do. Tita never
demand on anything and obey her mother
without any question. Even though Tita struggles
a lot, she is very determined to work and she
never forget the word ‘obey’ just because of her
mother’s attitude.
CRUELTY and VIOLENCE
In relation to obedience, cruelty and
violence what Mama Elena does to Tita as she
forces to obey her. This everyday cruelty and
violence that her mother does to her is very
usual because when Tita shows some
expression or disobedience that her mother
doesn’t like, she scolds her and sometimes hit
her and makes Tita sick.
CREATIVITY and IMAGINATION
Tita’s magical power when it comes to
cooking is shown in the novel. In every chapter
there are different dishes and recipes which
produce waves of uncontrollable desire to each
and every character.
After Nacha’s death, she still helps and
guides Tita in her cooking and gives Tita
confidence when she needs it.
Point of View, Style
and
Symbolism
THIRD PERSON: All-Knowing
The point of view shifts from Tita's first
person narrative to her great-niece's,
Esperanza, third person point of view
towards the end of the novel.
By placing an actual recipe at the
beginning of each chapter, the author is
reinforcing the importance of food to the
narrative.
The title comes from an old Latin-
American saying, Como Agua Para
Chocolate, which is Like Water for
Chocolate or water that is at boiling
somehow portraying the ‘boiling points’ of
human passion. It can be interpreted as a
person who is about to burst in an emotional
manner.
Magic realism often involves time shifts, dreams, myths, fairy tales, surrealistic
descriptions, the element of surprise and shock,
and the inexplicable.
Like Water for Chocolate is an example of
magic realism because it occur when Tita's
recipes have strange effects on those who eat
them, when spirits appear to her, and when she cries actual rivers of tears.
The recipes serves as transitional
tools to get from one chapter to the
next.
One example of fantastical event
occurred in the novel is when Tita
cooks with the rose petals.
Food A symbol of Tita's love for
Pedro Tita remains confined to the
kitchen, her creative preparation of the family's meals continues to serve as a vehicle for her love for Pedro and his children, and thus as a rebellious expression of her mother's efforts to separate them
Cook book One of the symbol in the
novel Like Water for Chocolate
Symbolizes that even when people die, the cooking of the family will survive
When the recipes of a family passes on, so does the essence and history of the family
Fire Desire and destructive passion
Three different times: 1. Gertrudis eats Tita's rose petals
and becomes so aroused. 2. Mama Elena's spirit becomes so
angry about Tita and Pedro's relationship that it causes an oil lamp to explode and burn Pedro.
3. Tita eats candles after Pedro's death, killing herself and destroying the family's ranch.
Moral of the
Story
Loyalty and Unconditional Love
Tita’s love for Pedro is unconditional from
the very start. When she met Dr. John, she still
never forgets Pedro. This novel taught us that you must learn how to be loyal to the ones you
love even though there are some
circumstances you are facing, at the same
time show unconditional love for them to know that they are worth fighting for.
Respect for others rights
Respect is very important to each and
every person because everybody deserves to
be respected. In this novel, it shows that Mama Elena don’t treat Tita in a right way. She
dominates everything in the ranch and doesn’t
think of others rights.
This help us realize that respect is a golden value for everybody and should be
treated equally.
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