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Like Water For Chocolate - Forbiden Love
Free Essay Submitted by bignerds on 06/28/2008 08:11 PM
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Like Water For Chocolate - Forbiden Love
Like Water for Chocolate
Love is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. In Like Water for Chocolate many of the main characters have had experiences with lost love and these experiences have shaped their lives in different ways. Mama Elena, Nacha, and Dr. Brown are each faced with the predicament of lost love and they have each dealt with their emotions differently.
Mama Elena fell in love when she was young and married. She even had a child from her lover and never told anyone that her husband wasn’t the father. The truth wasn’t revealed until late in the story after Mama Elena’s death when Tita discovered her mothers love letters and realized that her mother had felt the torment of a love lost.
Mama Elena was a very traditional woman who was greatly concerned with appearances, so she hid her forbidden love from everyone and hardened her heart. The once beautiful young vibrant loving woman was greatly scared by her experiences and as a result Mama Elena became a very strong woman who could face any obstacle that came her way. When the revolutionaries came to the ranch to steal what supplies they could, Mama Elena just looked them in the eyes with a cold stern look and told them what they could and could not have. She let them know that she was a woman to be reckoned with. Her strength perhaps came from the torment she faced when she lost her one and only true love. However strong that experience may have made her, it also left her with a cold heart of stone. She never once showed any sign of warmth to her children. She only cared about working and taking care of the ranch. Everyone on the ranch had to work. From the moment her daughters woke until the time they went to bed they were constantly working. It seemed like their mother was a slave driver whose only concern was to make sure they were always working and deal out fierce slaps to those who did not follow her orders exactly. Her cold stern hand was so strong...
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