Como Agua Para Chocolate Chapter Summary Of Tita

This novel focuses on the life of a Mexican family, the de La Garzas, living on a ranch during the Mexican Revolutionary War, a social and political struggle between the rich landowners, who had the most privilege and rights, and the rest of the extremely poor citizens of the nation. This war lasted from 1910 to 1920. The de La Garza household is solely made up of females. At the head of it is the single, widowed mother who is called ‘Mama Elena’. She has three daughters: Gertrudis, the oldest, Rosaura, the middle child, and Tita, the youngest daughter and protagonist of the story. There is also Nacha and Chencha. Nacha cooks for the family. She is a protecting, loving, and motherly figure to Tita. Chenca is their maid. The novel is separated with chapters that correspond to each month of the year the story follows. Each chapter begins with a recipe that has something to do with the events currently taking place in Tita’s life. Due to a family tradition, Tita, …show more content…
It was a time in which women questioned their identities and their roles in Mexican society, and strived to become more than what they had always been restricted to. An example of one of these women was Gertrudis, Tita’s older sister. She challenges the typical female responsibilities of being a mother and wife. She runs away from her home and certain destiny of becoming a housewife, by at first working in a brothel. When she realizes that still is not what she wants in life, she steps foot into the previously male-dominated world of the army. Like several women in Mexican history during this time period, she becomes a general of her own brigade. In addition to this, the novel showcases that the restrictions of women to be what is expected of them are also pushed by the women themselves, like Tita’s mother, Mama Elena. She forces Tita to give up happiness and love in order to continue a family