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Throughout the novel Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel uses the color white to symbolize apathy in the relationships between characters. The utilization of various literary elements such as repetition, diction, imagery, and allusion portray how Tita has had virginity forced upon her. The passage describes Tita's unwillingness to contribute her cooking skills to the wedding of her sister, Rosaura, and her true love, Pedro. This passage exemplifies how tradition forces disobedience.

At the beginning of the novel, Tita expresses that the color white, "cause a sort of blindness". Rosaura's white wedding sheet reminds Tita of the wedding she was deprived of. The use of diction through "blinding" illustrates how Tita can not see the …show more content…

The connotation of sugar as an indulgence means Tita's indulging herself in her own misery. The use of imagery conveys that a strong wav of despair and self pity washed upon Tita. It was so strong that se could not fitht against it, but all she could do was oblige. The use o personification demonstrates that the misery took control of her mind and body, therefore causing her to be visually blinded. Tita was saddened by the idea of Rosaura and Pedro together and did not have any interest in helping with the wedding preparation for a could've been her own if not for family traditions. Tita also describes how, the white color was "dragging along those snow white images from her childhood". The white brought back memories from Tita's childhood. Tita reminisced on the much simpler times of her life where she wasn't fighting for a man's affection with her sister. The use of personification with the white color dragging along the images convey how her former aspirations would no longer come true. Tita could no longer give any more thought to those hopeless dreams. The use of diction and imagery with "snow white images" enforces how lifeless her childhood dreams were. The dream of her getting married in a church dressed in white, to the man she loved has vanished at the hands of family

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