“Like water for chocolate” is a Spanish word that means anger or passion that is on the verge of breaking out. “Like water for chocolate” is a novel by Laura Esquivel’s about food and love. In the story, teta’s main mother, Mama Elena, is a serious, insulting, bossy and marginalized psychoped.it seems to me that her youngest daughter, tita, is more like a slave.
When a mother treats her daughter, especially Tita, she always asks in a harsh, even scolding way. At the beginning of the story, we see the mother’s request to Tita: as the younger daughter, you can’t get married, and you have to take care of my old age. “The rules have been there for generations,” she said. “no one can question the tradition.” The authority of the mother as a traditional parent deeply frightens the daughters. So when confronted with pedro to propose to Tita, the mother not only doesn’t agree to the proposal, repeating that she wants to keep the little girl as a tool to take care of herself, but also asks to marry another daughter rosaura to pedro on her own initiative, which pedro reluctantly accepts because of the deep love in her heart. His mother created the tragedy of his love. For the rest of her life, her mother not only keeps an eye on pedro, but never allows pedro to have contact with Tita.
The mother seems to be the spokesperson of a kind of tradition, controlling the whole family all the time, controlling the daughter’s life and thought, she does not allow anyone to post to her, to her is the so-called post to tradition, against the family. So she has attached her traditions, her stubborn ideas to the whole family and the people around her. She confined Tita to the kitchen, and her life was all about providing for others. She rejects Tita’s personality and tries to force her to suppress her sense of self. Deprived of her right to live freely, Tina has to be a good cook for her mean mother. Her torture of tita was a bit like psychological revenge, a sign of a broken personality. A child who has a grudge against his parents since he was a child may well abuse his life out of revenge on his father (mother), deliberately make his life unhappy, and use his own pain to make his parents painful, to prove them wrong. At this point, tita is the victim of this family. She sacrifices her right of choice, right of love, and circle of life for this family. She lives like an eagle without wings. Her life is like a computer inventory, endless repetition, washing the dishes, cooking, clearning, three point one line of life, no fun, no goal, no ideal life, but because the tita question the family tradition, and maintains its her feeling for pedre, finally he will make a choice between the two, is to continue to be a mother’s victims, or the pursuit of happiness.
