Like Water For Chocolate Character Analysis

In the novel “Like Water for Chocolate” written by Laura Esquivel she tells a Mexican love story about the youngest daughter of the De La Garza family. Tita struggles with accepting her family’s beliefs and cultural values. A lot of supernatural things occur throughout the novel, but are placed strategically to show the importance of certain things and how Tita feels, so magical realism is of huge importance in this novel. It really helps you picture things more clearly, and turns everyday ordeals into something exaggerated when things are really just normal. When Pedro and Rosaura are to get married Tita is to make the wedding cake for them. The recipe is in huge proportions. It calls for 170 eggs and 200 roosters to be fattened up and served as capons. Tita gets very upset while making the cake and cries all into the batter mix, which in return makes it runny. Once the cake is served to the guest everyone starts acting very strange. “Everyone there, every last person, fell under this spell, and not very many of them made it to the bathrooms in time -- those who didn't joined the collective vomiting that was going on all over the patio.” (39) The cake Tita baked had made everyone who ate it feel the same pain that Tita was experiencing. …show more content…
She wants to make something elaborate, so she uses the rose Pedro secretly gave her to incorporate in the dish. Tita does not know the recipe for this dish as it is a secret, so even though Nacha is dead her voice transmits the recipe to Tita. Everyone again starts feeling strange after they eat Tita’s rose dish. Gertrudis immediately becomes overwhelmed with sexual desires and starts to catch fire. “…the drops that fell from the shower never made it to her body: they evaporated before they reached her. Her body was giving off so much heat that the wooden walls began to split and burst into flames.” (54) Gertrudis gets scared and runs of the room