Like Water For Chocolate

The movie took place in Rio Grande Mexico. Baby Tita was born father was absent. Mother Elena was portrayed as a witch of a character. Tita grew up in the kitchen and food was her passion. She had two older sisters. Pedro declared his love for Tita at the age of fifteen. Mother Elana said no. Youngest must take care of her in her old age. Generations have claimed same tradition. Mother offered Rosaura De La Garza her sister to marry Pedro in Tita's place. Broken hearted Pedro agrees to the arrangement so he can be near Tita. Cruel mother made Tita responsible for the wedding banquet. Tita's tears fall in the wedding cake as she stirs the batter. Magic realism was while everyone was eating the wedding cake they were crying as if they were under a spell. Tita's food was said to be like the nectar of the gods. That was how Tita invaded Pedro's body was through her cooking. Tita nursed infant nephew because she had an inner need to feed the hungry. This was magic Realism because she could not nurse a child without having a child of her own. Mother wants Padro and Rosaura to move to Texas. They do so and the baby dies because everything the baby ate made him sick. I feel at this point in the film Tita starts standing up against her mother's values. She says " Robertos's death is your fault." I feel the language is beautiful when the Doctor speaks to Tita while at the Hospital. When Tita's mother's ghost appears to her Tita said "I hate you, I have always hated you." this drove the mothers ghost away. How sad, children have to endure mothers such as these, yet in reality some do. Moving ahead into the movie, the end shows Pedro and Tita in the wedding bed he dies as they make love, she eats the matches and dies with him.