Take Control of Life or Be Stuck With What You Get! In life, people have the option between making their own choices or just simply waiting until someone gives them what they want. Chances are the only way a person can get what they want is by doing it themselves. Victims do not take the fault for their actions, but instead blame and complain others. They also stand by and do nothing to achieve a goal. Taking on the victim role can be easy, but taking on the creator role is what gets a person the results they are looking for. In the book, Like Water for Chocolate chapter’s one through six the main character Tita faces many dilemmas, which she has to decide, is she will be a victim or a creator. When Tita is the creator of her actions, she
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She was born into a tradition that her family would keep impelling for generations. Since Tita is the youngest daughter her job was to take care of Mama Elena until the day she dies. The family’s belief left no time for Tita to marry or have a family of her own. Tita has no control over this situation, yet she has to obey because it is a family tradition; she is a “victim of outside forces” (32). One day as they were preparing Christmas Rolls, Tita told Mama Elena that Pedro Muzquiz would like to speak with her. Automatically, Mamma Elena knew that he wanted to ask for Tita’s hand in marriage. In Like Water for Chocolate, Mama Elena makes a bold statement to Tita, “You know perfectly well that being the youngest daughter means you have to take care of me until the day I die” (Esquirel 10). From the day, she born Tita’s fate was already determined. Changing the family tradition seemed almost impossible because Mama Elena intended to keep enforcing it. Regardless if she falls in love there will be no choice but to put her feelings aside. Tita tried her hardest not make herself a victim with a BIG V by following all the rules that her mother has set for; although some of them are cruel. Since Tita did not express her feelings, Mama Elena chose the outcome of her future. After Tita was denied to marry Pedro, she sent a man to tell him not to come ask …show more content…
Taking actions into her hands lead to the outcome of knowing that they still shared a strong connection. By keeping the secret between them, it would be what keeps their connection alive. Each time Roberto needed to be feed Pedro helped Tita by making sure nobody walked into the kitchen. Tita would feed Roberto milk from her breast and nobody in the house found out; all they knew was that Tita was feeding Roberto. In Like Water for Chocolate Tita’s work pays off, “For that reason, the baby, instead of driving them apart, actually brought them closer together. It was as if the child’s mother was Tita and not Rosaura. That is how she felt and acted. The day of the baptism, how proudly she carried her nephew, showing him off to all of the guest” (Esquivel 78). Tita’s actions made her feel like she had her own family. Although, Pedro and Roberto were not Tita’s, in her mind they were. The small choices she made shaped her fantasy life, that life that allowed her to be with the man she loves and to take care of “their” baby. Tita was showing off the Roberto to the guest as if the he was her own. All of the choices she took control over made Tita happy and when she was a victim, it made her
She was born into a tradition that her family would keep impelling for generations. Since Tita is the youngest daughter her job was to take care of Mama Elena until the day she dies. The family’s belief left no time for Tita to marry or have a family of her own. Tita has no control over this situation, yet she has to obey because it is a family tradition; she is a “victim of outside forces” (32). One day as they were preparing Christmas Rolls, Tita told Mama Elena that Pedro Muzquiz would like to speak with her. Automatically, Mamma Elena knew that he wanted to ask for Tita’s hand in marriage. In Like Water for Chocolate, Mama Elena makes a bold statement to Tita, “You know perfectly well that being the youngest daughter means you have to take care of me until the day I die” (Esquirel 10). From the day, she born Tita’s fate was already determined. Changing the family tradition seemed almost impossible because Mama Elena intended to keep enforcing it. Regardless if she falls in love there will be no choice but to put her feelings aside. Tita tried her hardest not make herself a victim with a BIG V by following all the rules that her mother has set for; although some of them are cruel. Since Tita did not express her feelings, Mama Elena chose the outcome of her future. After Tita was denied to marry Pedro, she sent a man to tell him not to come ask …show more content…
Taking actions into her hands lead to the outcome of knowing that they still shared a strong connection. By keeping the secret between them, it would be what keeps their connection alive. Each time Roberto needed to be feed Pedro helped Tita by making sure nobody walked into the kitchen. Tita would feed Roberto milk from her breast and nobody in the house found out; all they knew was that Tita was feeding Roberto. In Like Water for Chocolate Tita’s work pays off, “For that reason, the baby, instead of driving them apart, actually brought them closer together. It was as if the child’s mother was Tita and not Rosaura. That is how she felt and acted. The day of the baptism, how proudly she carried her nephew, showing him off to all of the guest” (Esquivel 78). Tita’s actions made her feel like she had her own family. Although, Pedro and Roberto were not Tita’s, in her mind they were. The small choices she made shaped her fantasy life, that life that allowed her to be with the man she loves and to take care of “their” baby. Tita was showing off the Roberto to the guest as if the he was her own. All of the choices she took control over made Tita happy and when she was a victim, it made her