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Like Water For Chocolate Character Descriptions. Tita - The protagonist
of the novel, Tita is the youngest daughter of Mama Elena ...
... we will be able to see as tasting chocolate. ... H2O entails having the essential gross
properties of water. ... It isn't just that, like the behavioral connections ...
... possess this vase; it, like the glass of water at my ... slept at our house, in the big
room, like one of ... and threw a handful of big bars of chocolate, wrapped in ...
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Tita - The protagonist of the novel, Tita is the youngest daughter of Mama
Elena, prohibited by family tradition from marrying so that she will be free
to take care of her mother later in life. The novel follows Tita's life from
birth to death, focusing mostly on her tortured relationship with Pedro and
her struggle and eventual triumph in pursuit of love and individuality.
Mama Elena - The tyrannical, widowed matriarch of the De La Garza
clan. Mama Elena is the prime source of Tita's suffering. Her fierce
temperament inspires fear in all three of her daughters. She keeps Tita from
her true love, Pedro, and it is later revealed that Mama Elena herself once
suffered from a lost love, embittering her for the rest of her life.
Pedro - Tita's true love, and the eventual father of Roberto and Esperanza.
Denied marriage to Tita by Mama Elena, he agrees to marry Rosaura,
breaking Tita's heart. Nevertheless, he asserts his continued love for Tita
throughout the novel and pursues her secretly. Pedro dies after he and Tita
are finally blissfully united while making love at the novel's end.
Rosaura - The second daughter of Mama Elena, Rosaura marries Pedro,
much to the despair of Tita. Rosaura leaves the ranch when Mama Elena
sends her and Pedro to San Antonio to keep Pedro and Tita apart. Her
first child, Roberto, dies as an infant; her second, Esperanza, prohibited like
Tita from ever marrying, weds Alex after Rosaura dies.
Gertrudis - The eldest daughter of Mama Elena. Gertrudis escapes the
ranch after reacting mysteriouslly to one of Tita's recipes. She runs away
with a rebel soldier, works in a brothel at the Mexico-Texas border, and
eventually returns to the ranch as a general in the revolutionary army. It is
eventually revealed that Gertrudis is...
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