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Plot
Tita is worried about whether or not she is pregnant with Pedro’s child. Gertrudis, Tita’s other older sister, visits the ranch for a special holiday and makes Pedro overhear about Tita’s pregnancy, causing Tita and Pedro to argue about running away together. This causes Pedro to get drunk and sing below Tita’s window while she is arguing with Mama Elena’s ghost and finds out from her she isn’t pregnant. Mama Elena gets revenge on Tita by setting Pedro on fire, leaving him bedridden and behaving like “a child throwing a tantrum”. Meanwhile, Tita is preparing the return of her fiance, John, and is hesitant to tell him that she cannot marry him because she is no longer a virgin. Rosaura comes to the kitchen while Tita is cooking and argues with her about over involvement with Rosaura’s daughter Esperenza’s life and the tradition of the youngest daughter taking care of the mother until she dies, which Tita despises. John and his deaf great aunt comes over and Tita tells him that she cannot marry him. John seems to accept it, “reaching for Tita’s hand...with a smile on his face”. Many years later, Tita is preparing for Esperenza’s and Alex’s wedding now that Rosaura has died from digestive problems. During the wedding, Pedro proposes to Tita saying that he does not want to “die without making [Tita] [his] wife”

Characters
Tita, main protagonist, a talented cook and Pedro’s lover.

Pedro, main protagonist, married to Rosaura but is Tita’s lover.

Mama Elena, mother of Gertrudis, Rosaura, and Tita, perceived as evil by Tita

Rosaura, one of Tita’s older sisters, married to Pedro, has two children, Roberto and Esperanza.

Chencha, ranch maid for Mama Elena and her family, married to Jesus.

Publication History
Like Water for Chocolate has been translated from the original Spanish into numerous languages. The English translation is by Carol and Thomas Christensen. The novel has sold close to a million copies in Spain and Hispanic America and at last count, in 1993, more than 202,000 copies in the United States

Adaptations
Laura Esquivel and her husband, Mexican Actor Alfonso Arau, collaborated to write the adaptation of Like Water For Chocolate for the 1992 film of the same name