Like Water For Chocolate Literary Analysis

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Water for Chocolate is a Mexican love tale about Tita de la Garza the protagonist and her relatives. Tita requires an enormous talent for cooking all of her family's recipes effortlessly. She also acquires a mystic influence that adds her emotions to her dishes if she is feeling an exceptionally strong emotion while cooking that meal. The people who enjoy her dish then feel the same strong emotion, be it lust, anger, sadness, or joy. Tita has no control over this power and only seems half-aware of it, which gets her into a lot of complicated situations with her family members with her struggle to pursue true love and claim her independence.
In the book Like Water for Chocolate, author Laura Esquivel reworks and complicates tradition notions