In “ Like Water for Chocolate”, the connection between the mother and daughter is filled with sadness, authority, grief, and control. Tita’s mom gave birth to her in great sorrow, so from the starting of her life, Tita’s childhood was filled with unhappiness. Due to the shock of Tita’s father’s death, her mother was unable to breastfeed her. Mama Elena gave Tita to Nacha, the cook, to take care of her. The narrator tells us “ Tita was literally washed in this world on a great tide of tears that spilled over the edge of the table and flooded across the kitchen floor”(Esquivel 5). This foreshadows the sadness that will continue to happen in the novel. The fact that breast milk dries up indicates that she was unable to nurture and form
