1. What does the title mean?
2. One minute Tita was engaged to the doctor (Why did he speak English?) and the next minute, her niece is married 22 years later, her sister is dead (from passing gas?), and she and Pedro are free. What happened to the doctor?
3. What was that bit about chewing up the matches and turning into flames? I gather that it's a metaphor, but was she killing herself and Pedro because they had sinned?
Thanks!
1. Like water for chocolate.
2. She was engaged to the doctor but told him she loves someone else more than him so she couldn't marry him. Then they jumped ahead 20 years to her niece is marrying the doctors son. So he's still in the family but not related to Tita. Tita's sister died of stomach problems, not just passing gas. She had a stomach problem that caused gas and bad breath. Eventually it killed her.
3. In the book they explain it much better and since I havent read it in three years I'll try and explain it as best I can. Their passion (Tita and Pedro) combined was so tremendous that it basically killed Pedro and when Tita realized this she didn't want to survive without him so she basically killed herself to be with him finally, once and for all. The matches I think (and I could be off base) but it sort of ignited her passion and love for him like a match burns a candle. Anyway I would have to read the book to get the exact answer.
Hope that helps!
Thanks, theunspokentruth. That helped a lot.
But I still don't understand the phrase, "Like water for chocolate."
It means chocolate as in hot chocolate, which is made with water in Mexico. In the book at one point Tita is described a being 'literaly like water for choclate', as in about to boil over.
shareHot, as in sexual passion, and also anger over all the frustrations Tita and Pedro went through.
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