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Cruelty and violence have been often a solid influence with Mama Elena towards Tita. The psychological damage that Mama Elena cause Tita took effect after, Tita heard news of the death of her nephew Roberto. According to the chapter five (99) in the month of may. Mama Elena took a wooden spoon and smashes Tita across the face. The act of cruelty and the violent behavior of Mama Elena. In addition to Mama Elena attitude toward the death of her grandson being callous and tactless. This causes Tita to hide in the dovecote overnight. Where the psychological damage began to surface. When the Dr. Brown came to retrieve Tita from the dovecote, only to find Tita there naked with a broken nose and holding a dead pigeon. Tita then became suffer in silences for the next coupled of months. Instead of Mama Elena seeking professional help for Tita to get better, Mama Elena suggested that Tita be taken to the asylum.

She strikes a match over it destroying any evidence on her clothes , there's no neighbors close by so spotting her is hard unless someone is stalking her . She walks back into the house grabbing the jug of Kierstyn's blood , walking by the book case in her bedroom that leads to a secret room . Inside is a antique bronze bathtub , the walls are painted blood red with a collection of midevil decorations surrounding the room. She gets into the bronze tub ,begins pouring the blood over her breast down to her whole body , draining the bottle out . She rubs it all over her bathing in it like she's a twenty first century Elizabeth Bathory . She baths in it for a hour covering her whole body , she then drains the tub , turning on the shower head hanging over her , rinsing the blood off of her leaving minor stains

Tita becomes very close to Pedro and Rosaura’s baby, Roberto, when she is unexpectedly able to nurse the infant. When Mama Elena sees how this brings Pedro and Tita closer, she sends Rosaura, Pedro, and the baby away. Unfortunately, after eating something that disagrees with him, Roberto dies. Mama Elena and Tita are together when they find out, and Tita turns to Mama Elena and proclaims, “You did it, you killed Roberto” (99). If Mama Elena hadn’t sent Rosaura, Pedro, and Roberto away, Tita would have been able to keep feeding the baby and he would have been alive. However, Mama Elena likes to devastate people’s lives, and she made the decision that eventually killed Roberto. Similar to natural disasters, Mama Elena takes pleasure in dismantling people’s lives and causing

905). Although Tituba didn’t make them drink the blood she confessed to witchcraft to save

As a toddler she spent her days witnessing the magic that Nacha manifested every time she set herself to make a platter. Tita was her apprentice and without knowing it, little by little, she completely embodied the power to cook, and what?s more, to reveal herself through her food. When she had no other way to express herself, food became her mode of communication. Mama Elena?s cruel appointing of Tita as head of all the preparations for the wedding of her sister Rosaura and the man that Tita loved, resulted very tragically. While baking the cake with Nacha, Tita?s tears sank into the batter of the cake, and acted as poisonous toxins that nauseated all those who ate it, ruining the wedding, and killing Nacha herself, who also tasted Tita?s melancholy teardrops:

She goes from a mellow, passive, or almost barely speaking, to an aggressive and advocating tone against her mother and her sister Rosura. She is quick with her response, and raises her voice when arguing with them. The figurative language in the story depicts the transformation that Tita has to go through. The figurative language shows the sturdy connection between human’s feelings and food or women and their bodies. Poison is being used as a metaphor to indicate how the old society is being corrupted by new society. The magical realism, gives us the blend of an ordinary life with magic. Things that would never happen in reality, but is imported from the beginning to the end of “Like Water for chocolate” to make it enchanted. The story help us readers predict by delivering a hint of something that’s going to occur in the future. It foreshadows with in the lines and the ingredients that is listed at the beginning of every chapter. In the beginning of the chapter the setting of the story indicates the tradition of a girl being raised in the kitchen. Tita is the first in her family to make a different to go beyond the “status quo” and discontinue the oppression of women. She gives women a passage to have to make their own decisions, follow their hearts, but to never forget where they come from.

As Anna is watching her sister and her friends, she steams up a crazy idea that she is going to the party too. The time comes for all the girls to leave, so they all hop in the car and head to the party. What they do not know is little Anna secretly followed them on her bike. Anna, pedaling as fast as she can, she finally arrives at the party. She begins to walk around, and she is mesmerized. Everyone is dancing and having the time of their life. While keeping an eye out for her older sister Alice, she gets a little thirsty. She grabbed a drink off of a table and realized it tasted a little funny, but that didn’t bother Anna. As she’s walking around looking at everyone she starts to feel a little light-headed, and she passes out under a tree. When she wakes up, she sees that everything was different, even her. She was a big girl now, just like she wanted. She takes off walking home, as she sees many homeless people on the streets she gets confused. Anna walks past a store and sees a calendar, it’s the year 1932, twenty years later. Anna arrives home feeling very disarranged. She sees that her family is now poor, and

There once was a beautiful girl born to a poor family who had so much love for her, as she was the only daughter of eight. Unfortunately, they never had enough time with her, and her parents needed another son so he could work in the fields, not a daughter, who they would have to save up for a dowry. As she grew older her beauty did not fade, but alas, it grew stronger, yet she did not notice. At her 15th birthday her parents grew tired and their number one mission became to marry her off, as they just had a great harvest and could afford a small dowry. They made her walk through the local village in thin clothing every day so that the men would notice her, and make her curl her hair and spend time working on her looks so that her natural beauty could not shine through, only the

throughout the next few days the children were feeding on all of the villagers. After this the mother had realised what a mistake she had made, and how she has just upset the balance of nature. So the mother with the father starts to plot the death of their children to restore the balance of nature. Mrs. Michaelson comes up with a solution of making another type of vampire that does not feed on human blood but other vampire

Her fall comes about incredibly differently as it was a result of her overwhelming guilt instead of blind fearlessness and lack of remorse. In fact, it was the immense remorse she felt after realizing what she had inspired in her husband and what she turned him into that resulted in her undoing. Ultimately, her views of blood went from just another substance that could be washed away, to a stain that would tarnish her conscience until her last

She led an extremely difficult life, having had three miscarriages and attempting suicide twice. She was therefore very protective of her four surviving children. Hearing the news of her eldest son joining the Italian Army, caused her a lot of pain, and she came to the delusional conclusion that her son’s safety required human sacrifices. She killed and dismembered her victims’ bodies then she ‘threw the pieces into a pot’ ‘and stirred the whole mixture until the pieces dissolved in a thick, dark mush that’ she ‘poured into several buckets.’ She dried the blood in an oven ‘ground it and mixed it with flour, sugar, chocolate, milk and eggs, as well as a bit of margarine, kneading all the ingredients together.’

Beauty is traditionally defined as a concept that focuses on a combination of qualities such as shape, color or form that pleases the aesthetic sense, especially the sight. With this interpretation there is a general standard to what is “beautiful” and what is not that is appealing to everyone. However, there has been an increase in the belief that the judgement of beauty is relative to different individuals and/or cultures and that there are no universal criteria of beauty. Within the novel, Love Medicine, written by Louise Erdrich, there is an emphasis on the more novel conceptualization of beauty. Beauty still induces attraction, but what has changed is what is considered attractive.

The new imperialism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was from the economical means of making profit from goods in the countries that imperialist want. Political wants such a glory and National Greatness. Socially, different groups wanted to make money from the new trade and need for goods which can also go along with economical imperialistic actions.

Furthermore, legalization of marijuana for recreational use reduces an important revenue stream for many organized crimes. Each year, the prevalent consumption of the marijuana turns thousands of regular citizens into criminals. Similar to liquor during the Prohibition Era in the 1920s, marijuana is an easy income for organized crimes, generating billions of dollars to cannabis cultivators, who commit variety of crimes both at home and abroad. The prohibition of marijuana, just like the prohibition of liquor, is what produces the enormous profit for the criminal organizations that provide access to the substance for millions. And similar to how the influence of organized crimes, during the Prohibition, were reduced and eventually vanished,

Since Tita was unable to stand up to Mama Elena, she felt helpless, which she then realized how strong her fate for an identity would be nonexistent; however, Tita would not accept that fate. From the day Tita was born and past off to Nacha, the cook, Mama Elena formed resentment towards Tita, while attempting to make Tita obedient through force, cruelty and mistreatment. Tita was physically punished multiple times by the hands of Mama Elena, and forced to live the life as a servant, and punished to cook, as well as, arrange the wedding of her love, Pedro, to her sister, Rosaura (26-29). Mama Elena bounded Tita to the kitchen and constrained her to cook for the family, under Nacha’s care, and if Mama Elena saw signs of Tita being disobedient, Mama Elena would strike her in rage. Mama Elena put Tita in charge of the preparations for Pedro and Rosaura’s wedding to lower her spirits and eliminate any hope she may have within, which caused Tita to have a weak moment and triggers her to hallucinate. In the opinion of a journalist, Justine Baek, which was