Like Water For Chocolate Literary Analysis

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In the book Like Water for Chocolate the story that is told is a really suspenseful story where Tita and Pedro are in love, but Tita’s mom is really sick so she must stay by her side until death. With this being said Tita is not allowed to fall in love or get married, but she does whatever she can to be with Pedro. Unexpected event lead Tita through years of heartache, love, hatred and joy.

There is a lot of imaginative writing style in this book. For example, at the beginning of the story, Nacha, the ranch’s cook, said, “Tita was literally washed into this world on a great tide of tears that spilled over the edge of the table and flooded across the kitchen floor” (Esquivel, 1992). Even though this might seem exaggerated, events like this

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