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=What are the key events in // Like Water For Chocolate ? (Post in chronological order)//=
 * (from any section) the effects of the different meals
 * Tita being born in the kitchen, where she later spent many of her years with Nacha, the ranch cook
 * Pedro and Tita falling in love and Pedro asking for Tita's hand in marriage
 * Mama Elena won't let Tita marry Pedro (family tradition)
 * Pedro marries Rosaura instead
 * Everyone at Rosaura's wedding throw up from Tita's tears in the cake
 * Nacha dies
 * Rosaura and Pedro have a baby named Roberto
 * Gertrudis falling in love with the revolutionary and running off
 * Pedro and Rosaura get sent to San Antonio and Roberto dies
 * Tita's mental breakdown
 * Mamma Ellena dying and coming back as a spirit
 * John Brown takes Tita into his house and takes pity on her
 * John Brown and Tita falling in love
 * Pedro coming back for Tita after she has fallen in love with John Brown
 * The ending of Tita's and Dr. Brown's engagement
 * Rosaura dies
 * Pedro gets burned because Mama Elena's ghost attacks him
 * Rosaura has her daughter
 * Doc Brown's son and Rosaura's daughter get married
 * Pedro and Tita dying while making intense love, as Tita comes back to feel hurt and eats the candels

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=Discussion Questions (...no need to answer on the Wiki. Do, however, develop an answer as a way to review for the quiz.):=
 * 1) What would have happened differently with Tita and Pedro if Mama hadn't have died?
 * 2)  Would Pedro have came back for Tita if Roasora hadn't died?
 * 3) Why didn't Mama understand Tita and Pedro's relationship and why didn't Mama have more sympethy for their love?
 * 4) If you were in Tita’s shoes would you do something different?
 * 5) Have you ever eaten similar dishes as the ones that were in the book?
 * 6) To which character(s) did you relate the most? Which character(s) displayed some aspect of your own personality?
 * 7) What lessons does Esquivel seem most concerned about communicating to the reader? Explain how particular characters, images, events, or dialogue helped you become aware of a lesson the author seems to what you to learn.
 * 8) Why does Esquivel create such magical, fantastical, and strange reactions to the food that is prepared?
 * 9) What surprised (or shocked) you the most in this novel
 * 10) Was Mother Elana's ghost real of a figment of Tita's imagination
 * 11) Do you think that Tita did the right thing be leading on Doc Brown while she still loved Pedro
 * 12) Did everything actually happen or was some of it metaphorical?
 * 13) Was Tita actually ever in love with John or was it more like her second choice?
 * 14) Did the food that Tita made actually cause people to have emotions?
 * 15) == Why is Nacha more of a motherly figure to Tita then Mama Elena is? Why doesn't this bother Mama Elena more? ==
 * 16) =** Why is it that Rosaura married Pedro eventhough she knew that her sister Tita was in love with him? **=

Notes from short class discussion (09/10/09): -How did Tita and Pedro Die? Answer: Pedro and Tita having sexual intercourse, and Pedro has a heart problem and gets too excited and dies. Tita feels that they need to be together and eats the candles. The fire is a metaphor for physical, spiritual, and emotional pleasure.

- If you were in Tita’s shoes would you have done the same thing or acted slightly different? Do you relate to Tita? Answer: (Some answered) No, Tita needs to stay with one person, either Pedro or John. Tita can never make up her mind and makes problems for herself. Tita is unpredictable and can’t make up her mind. (Most seemed to agree with this perspective.)

- Is this book based in reality? Or is it more made up? Answer: (Some posited...) More into Mexican history because it brings up the Revolution. Yet, the book is certainly based in fantasy, too. If a reader takes every event, scene, and wild description literally, he will end up confused. Instead, a reader should ask himself, what idea, emotion, or theme might the author want the reader to take away from these wild, symbolic, figurative elements of the story. Also, some categorize this novel as fitting into the [|magical realism] genre.