Like Water for Chocolate: Chapter Two
Characters include Tita, Nacha, Mama Elena, Tita's sisters, Pedro,
This chapter also takes place on Tita's mom's ranch.
This chapter's recipe is for a wedding cake, for Rosaura and Pedro's wedding.
The chapter begins with the fateful wedding of her sister and her love; Pedro. Tita, Nacha, and Mama Elena are in the kitchens preparing for the weddings by making a cake. Throughout the work required to make the feast, Tita begins to have problems with hallucinations. One egg Nacha is about to crack begins making a peeping noise, in which Tita thinks there is a chicken inside. Only a second later to have Mama Elena yell at her for her craziness. Everyone continues to cook, and eventually, Mama Elena goes to bed. Tita and Nacha both cry it out, but the batter won't rise because of Tita's crying and it takes a while for it to do so. Nacha insists that she gets some rest and Tita leaves, and afterward, Nacha tastes a bit of the cake to see if Tita's tears made it salty only to feel a great sadness that made her far too sick to attend the wedding.
-Maddie
I'm going to assume that your group's symbol is sad/tears or something around that category. Including the recipe was a good choice to add description to your summary of chapter 2/February. Would you say this chapter is when Tita's craziness starts to come intact. Does your group also think this chapter is when readers could first find out how Mama Elena treats Tita and the rest of the girls in the house. My group has heat/fire as our symbol and it compares to your symbol in a few ways. Mama Elena's fierce/flamey actions towards Tita and the others causes for tears and sadness. It's almost as if the fire creates the sadness. In my opinion, that is almost how it goes down each time there is fire and sadness in the same scene.
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