Like Water For Chocolate: Synthesis 4-8

From after chapter 4, we've started to see some major shifts and changes. Our symbol is, obviously, the bedspread. The bedspread is coming up less and less and we've thought this might be because Tita is back at the ranch and Pedro is there. Also, we get a new potential love interest, John Brown.

    The bedspread is very long. The last we saw was in chapter 5 at the very end, when Dr. Brown comes and takes Tita off the ranch. It was dragging behind them in the dirt due to size, and this might mean something. It might show the growing insignificance of Tita and Pedro's love. John has started to come into the picture and dwarf their affair.  It could also show Tita's growing uncaring attitude towards Pedro.

  The absence of the bedspread before may represent how Tita's feelings for Pedro are slowly fading, and her thoughts and feelings are going to Dr. Brown.  At the end of chapter 8 however, things may start heating up again for Pedro and Tita throughout the rest of the book. The bedspread might start to show up again due to this.