Short Summary Of Como Agua Para Chocolate

Obedience- Tita, now gone away from the grasp of her mother’s control, vows that she will never come back to the ranch. Tired of listening to her mother yell at her and give her commands, she wants to start a new with Dr. Brown.
Supernatural- Tita, while in the kitchen, meets an old lady; they never talked, but Tita felt a connection with her. This lady turned out to be the ghost of Morning Light, John’s grandmother.
Sanity and Insanity- After being taken away by Dr. Brown, Tita slowly gains her sanity. She lost it when she learned of her nephew’s death, yet was able to start recomposing herself with the love and care given to her by Dr. Brown.
Love and Passion- Tita, under the caring love of John, starts to feel affection towards him; their

bond grows as their time spent together increases. Tita is still questioning the idea of her and Pedro married, and she further questions it due to her new connection with John.
July:
Cruelty and Violence- Mama Elena, for once was not the perpetrator of violence at the ranch. Bandits, attacking the ranch, raped Chencha and thrashed Mama Elena as she tried to protect Chencha; this caused Chencha to have mental and physical trauma while it rendered Mama Elena paraplegic.
Sanity and Insanity- Mama Elena, now immobilized due to her paralysis, is taken care of my Tita. Although Tita had all the right intentions of caring for her injured mother, Mama Elena still treated Tita lowly. She starts to hallucinate and believes that the food Tita is feeding her has poison in it. The food would be find in the mouths of others, but to Mama Elena, it was bitter.
Love and Passion- While dressing Mama Elena’s dead body for the funeral, Tita discovers a key that, when she tried, unlocked a hidden box full of letters Mama Elena had with her lover.

Although Mama Elena’s love with a mulatto was forbidden, she continued to write to him, even having an affair with him. From their secret love, came Gertrudis.
Duty and Responsibility- With Mama Elena dead, Tita’s duty to care for her mother until death was gone. Nevertheless, she still takes on the responsibility of helping at the ranch by working in the kitchen.
August:
Love and Passion- By the end of the chapter, and albeit Tita didn’t want any part with Pedro as a lover, Tita and Pedro had intimate sex. After seeing her naked, Pedro’s lust couldn’t be contained and he went to have coitus with her.
Victim and Victimization- Now, even though Mama Elena is dead, Rosaura still continues to carry on her traditions. Rosaura, like Mama Elena, forces her youngest daughter, Esperanza, to a life only of caring for her.
Supernatural- While Tita and Pedro were having sex, Rosaura, Esperanza and Chencha were mistified by the plumes of phosphorescent lights rising into the sky. They fear that it is the ghost of Mama Elena, and both Rosaura and Esperanza vow to not go near

it.
Duty and Responsibility- During Tita’s and John’s engagement party, John and Pedro get into a heated discussion on the Mexican Revolution. They stop, however, once Tita steps into the room, not because she enforces a certain rule against the discussion, but rather social norms dictate that politics shouldn’t be a matter of discussion at a party.