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 her mother, Mama Elena,
since her farther is dead. Going by tradition Mama Elena said no, but she did then
ask him if he wants Rousara Tita sister instead. Thinking that by marriage Tita's
Tita had to be part of the wedding if she liked it or not, according to Mama
Elena. While Tita and Nacha where preparing the batter for the cake Tita told her
mother that it would be best if she didn't attend the wedding. Mama Elena then
told her that she was and that she could not cry at the wedding. After her mother
left Tita began to cry above the batter, and tears fell into the cake batter. It was
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