Like Water for Chocolate

A detailed Summary of Like Water for Chocolate


There are all sorts of novels, English, American, Mexican, ect..., but they

all have something that distinguish them from the rest. Mexican novelist tend

to write about magic and love. In Laura Esquirel novel Like Water For

Chocolate magic is in many peoples opinion a big part of the theme. Tita the

main character of the novel, and she unknowing uses her cooking as magic, the

magic used effects almost everyone who eats Tita's food. Like Water For Chocolate

is a novel that uses magic in ways that will effect almost everyone around the wizard

that products the magic in a good or bad way.

Tita first love was Pedro, they meet at a party thrown by the De la Garza

family which Tita was sadly part of. The De la Garza tradition was that the

youngest daughter had to stay in the house of her mother and take care of her till

the day the mother died, which means that the daughter could not get married.

Unfortunately for Tita she was the youngest and her mother was health as a flying

bird. Pedro was madly in love with Tita, and Tita with Pedro, he wanted to take

her had in marriage, but in order to do this he has to ask


nauseous, and then asked to be excused. Then Gertudis ran out to the out house

run, naked she was, ran out to a man on a horse named Juan who she later married

and began to get naked, she began to sweat and smell like roses. Gertudis began to

digestive problems, Esperanza her daughter got to marry her true love Alex Brown

and his excuse was to celebrate her first year as ranch cook. Rosaura pregnant at

she also died. Seeing that the magic made everyone want love it is appropriate to



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Approximate Word count = 1056
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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