Like Water for Chocolate: Magic and Enchantment Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel, relates a “Cinderella-like story” of a young woman, growing up during the Mexican Revolution whose fate is dictated by her oppressive, overbearing mother. Tita, the heroine of the story, lives with her mother, Mama Elena, and two older sisters, Rosaura and Gertrudis. As the youngest daughter of the family, Tita, by long-standing tradition, can never marry; it is her responsibility to …showed first 75 words of 824 total…

…showed last 75 words of 824 total…is possible. It is a world of love, but not always of happiness. It is possible that the title, Like Water for Chocolate, means a person should not have to accept plain water for tasty chocolate, as Tita accepts a mundane life rather than ardent romance. Pedro eventually dies over Tita, and because of her unyielding life-long devotion to him, Tita ends her life with him, an ending which is symbolic and not necessarily happy.