ing a price on everything he encounters, his daughter and granddaughter stray from artificiality and although through deceitful means, find true love. Like Water for Chocolate displays two
             remarkable women that do not tolerate their mothers authoritarian ways. With food as her weapon, Tita's independence is demonstrated through means of cooking. "...instead of obeying her order, she started to tear apart all the sausages she could reach, screaming wildly" (Esquivel 99). In performing this defying act, Titas insurgent manner is revealed. Tradition plays as much an enemy as does Tita's mother.
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