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People often lack sympathy of people who are different to them.

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"Tita waited anxiously for her mother's reaction when she had her first sip, but Mama Elena spit the soup on the bedspread and yelled to Tita to get the tray out of her sight immediately"
(p130)

The compassionate act of Tita making soup for Mama Elena, followed by Mama Elena's cruel words.

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Trauma can bring out both the compassion and cruelty in others. They are two sides of the same coin.

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when the towns people burned the Man to see if he was still alive. "The only time they succeeded in arousing him was when they burned his side with an iron for branding steers"

when the man first came and they didnt want to kill him "before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop."

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Human's implicit nature is cruelty and compassion doesn't go to those who don't fit in.

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After the chicken coop collapased, "Pelayo threw a blanket over him and extended him the charity of letting him sleep in the shed,"
(Marquez,7)

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1.) The townspeople tried to feed the old man showing their initial care: "At first they tried to make him eat some mothballs, which, according to the wisdom of the wise neighbor woman, were the food prescribed for angels." (Marquez, 8)

2.) The townspeople went to the old man in attempt to get help but treat him poorly: "... the cripples pulled out feathers to touch their defective parts with, and even the most merciful threw stones at him, trying to get him to rise so they could see him standing." (Marquez, 8)

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One morning while chopping onions "Elisenda let out a sigh of relief, for herself and for him, when she watched him pass over the last houses, holding himself up in some way with the risky flapping of a senile vulture" (Marquez, 8)

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1.) Chencha goes to Tita after she has been trapped in the dovecoat: " Chencha found Tita holding the pigeon. She didn't seem to realize it was dead. She was trying to feed it some more worms. The poor thing probably died of ingestion because Tita fed it too much."
(Esquivel, 100)

2.) When Tita first lashes out at Mama Elena she lets out all her true emotions: "'You did it, you killed Roberto! screamed Tita.'" (Esquivel, 99)

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When describing the treatment of the angel, Marquez states, “Especially during the first days when the hens pecked at him searching for the stellar parasites that proliferated in his wings, and the cripples pulled out feathers to touch their defective parts with, even the most merciful threw stones at him, trying to get him to rise so they could see him standing.”

When describing the angels treatment further Marquez states,  “The angel was no less standoffish with him than with the other mortals, but he tolerated the most ingenious infamies with the patience of a dog who had no illusions.”

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People are cruel to the things that they don’t understand.

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Humans tend to be cruel when faced with something different that they have never seen before.

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"Did not have the heart to club him" (Marquez, 4)

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Cruelty from society can create cruel people; however, compassion from society can help to heal them.

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Although Mama Elena has done a lot of cruel stuff to Tita she, "wanted with all her heart to give her[Mama Elena] the best possible care"(Esquivel 130).

After Tita realized Pedro didn't have the right to have her love him so much she took John's arm because she, "wanted to cause Pedro the same pain she had always felt seeing him beside her sister"(Esquivel 139)

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Cruelty can be mistaken for compassion and vice versa.

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Compassionate people are taken advantage of by the cruel.

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In the book Like Water for Chocolate Tita is shown compassion by Nacha in the quote, " Nacha appeared there at her side, stroking her hair as she ate, as she had done when she was little and was sick." (Esquivel, 125) which is one of the only times in the book Tita is shown real affection. In addition to this, Tita shows compassion for Gertrudis every year by "preparing the dish in honor of her liberation," Which is a way of showing she still loves and remembers Gertrudis despite her being estranged from the family.

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When the old man is being displayed, "the cripples pulled out feathers to touch their defective parts with, and even the most merciful threw stones at him" (Marquez, psg 8)

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One's compassion can also drive cruelty

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Tita had prepared a compassionate meal for Pedro, "...in which Tita was the transmitter, Pedro the receiver, and poor Gertrudis the medium, the conducting body through which the singular sexual message was passed" (Esquirel, 52).

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Past trauma caused by cruel intentions can be fixed by compassionate actions from others.

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When the old man was getting branded by Father Gonzaga, "The only time they succeeded in arousing him was when they burned his side with an iron for branding steers, for he had been motionless for so many hours that they thought he was dead." (Marquez, 5)
When Elisenda and Pelayo gave the old man somewhere to stay, but was inhumane, act. "He spent his time trying to get comfortable in his borrowed nest, befuddled by the hellish heat of the oil lamps and sacramental candles that had been placed along the wire." (Marquez, 5)

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Cruelty can always be lingering, even when people show compassion towards others.

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When the old man lands in their yard, the couple "Against the judgment of the wise neighbor woman... they did not have the heart to club him to death" (Marquez, psg 4)

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Tita unknowingly poisons her guests which can be seen in the quote: "everyone there, every last person, fell under the spell, and not very many of them made it to the bathrooms in time--those who didn't join the collective vomiting that was going on all over the patio." Unknown cruelty is also displayed in the quote: "she removed the boy from her breast; a thin stream of milk sprayed out. Tita could not understand it." She steals her milk from her sister which leads to the boys death.

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People can be unknowingly cruel.

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When trying to make Pedro Jealous, Tita thinks, "she was convinced that John, who was always at her side supporting her without reservation, was her true love." (Esquivel, July, pg 138)

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Elisenda had seen how much attraction the so-called angel had brought, "her spine all twisted from sweeping up so much marketplace trash, then got the idea of fencing in the yard and charging five cents admission to see the angel" (Marquez).

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Tita didn't even taste her food and only stared at her hands because, "at her mother's, what she had to do with her hands was strictly determined, no questions asked. She had to get up, get dresses, get the fire going in the stove, fix breakfast, feed the animals, wash the dishes...Now, seeing her hands no longer at her mother's command, she didn't know what to ask them to do, she had never decided for herself before" (Esquivel, June, 109).

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Although the neighbor woman advised Pelayo and Elisenda to kill the "angel", "they did not have the heart to club him to death"(Marquez). Although, they did have the heart to make him into a circus animal: "[Pelayo and Elisenda]...charging five cents admission to see the angel"(Marquez).

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Tita is trying to take care of Mama Elena after the attack and Mama Elena is refusing to eat her food because,"... there couldn't be the slightest doubt that Tita intended to poison her slowly in order to marry Dr.Brown. From that day on, she absolutely refused to eat anything that Tita cooked" (133)

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They are cruel to bird man as signified by the quote: "the only time they succeeded in arousing him was when they burned his side with an iron for branding steers, for he had been motionless for so many hours that they thought he was dead." (Marquez) In addition, this quote: "he reminded them that the devil had the bad habit of making use of carnival tricks in order to confuse the unwary," portrays the same thing.

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After punishing Tita and after Tita fights back, Mama Elena's immediately says, "Fine, if she is acting crazy, then I'm going to put her in an asylum. There's no place in this house for maniacs!" (Esquivel, May, Pg 100)

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When the old man first arrives in the house, the neighbors treat him differently and the text states: "... they found the whole neighborhood in front of the chicken coop having fun with the angel, without the slightest reverence, tossing him things to eat through the openings in the wire as if he weren't a supernatural creature but a circus animal" (Marquez 2).

When the spider woman comes into town, the town is a little surprised to see her but they also think she's cool, and the text states: "Her only nourishment came from the meatballs that charitable souls chose to toss into her mouth" (Marquez 8).

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Generational trauma can be a very damaging thing, leading those affected by it to make unhealthy decisions with their life and, a lot of the time, continue the cycle of trauma and cruelty if they have their own children.

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Being cruel to another takes a lot less effort than being compassionate to them. And often people take the easy way out.

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After the old man arrives, Pelayo and Elisenda are trying to decide what to do with the old man when the author describes, "Pelayo watched over him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiff’s club, and before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop" (Marquez)

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People are cruel to that which they don't understand

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As the old man is in the chicken coop, the whole neighborhood is having fun with the angel, "without the slightest reverence, tossing him things to eat through the openings in the wire as if he weren't a supernatural creature but a circus animal" (Marquez).

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People are capable of compassion but often turn to cruelty when they encounter something unusual or different.

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Humans can create cruelty when they are blind by their craving for attention.

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People are naturally cruel towards things they see as "strange", and prefer to observe them from afar while keeping them from affecting their lives whatsoever.

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Cruelty from society can cause people to take advantage of others to their benefit themselves.

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Cruelty can overpower peoples' compassion as they try to rationalize the unexplainable.

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"to formalize their engagement, John handed Tita a beautiful diamond ring... The glints of light it gave off reminded her of the gleam in Pedro's eyes... Rosaura was moved by the tears in her sister's eyes, taking them for tears of joy" (156).

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"Tossing him things to eat through the openings in the wire as if he weren't a supernatural creature but a circus animal."

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"In the De La Garza family some things could be excused, but not disobedience, not questioning parental authority. Mama Elena would  never forgive Tita, crazy or not, for blaming her for the death of Roberto," (Esquivel 125).

"During the funeral Tita really wept for her mother. Not for the castrating mother who had repressed Tita her entire life, but for the person who had lived a frustrated love. And she swore in front of Mama Elena's tomb that come what may, she would never renounce love," (Esquivel 138).

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To continue family tradition compassion can come off as cruel

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Those who are used to tradition may become cruel toward those who try to break free of it because they fear the change.

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neutered- "Yes, she was having problems, when they had chosen something to be neutered, they'd make a mistake, they should have seen her" Tita is neutered in the sense of mama Elena will not allow her to get married or leave, Tita has to take care of her in her old age.

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When tita was at dr briwns house she thought “the only thing that is absolutely sure about was that she did not want to return to the ranch. She never wanted to live near mama elana again”

When tita is in the pigeon coop “ tita had lossed all interest in life, except For her interest in feeding worms to a helpless pigeon”

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"The only time they succeeded in arousing him was when they burned his side with an iron for branding steers" (8).

"That was how Father Gonzaga was cured forever of his insomnia and Pelayo's courtyard went back to being as empty as during the time it had rained for three days and crabs walked through the bedrooms" (10).

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“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle would be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches. For a moment we are dazzled by an intense emotion. A pleasant warmth grows within us, fading slowly as time goes by, until a new explosion comes along to revive it. Each person has to discover what will set off those explosions in order to live, since the combustion that occurs when one of them is ignited is what nourishes the soul. That fire, in short, is its food. If one doesn't find out in time what will set off these explosions, the box of matches dampens, and not a single match will ever be lighted.”

“Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.”

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After killing the crabs Pelayo before bed, “Dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop”

After Pelayo and Elisenda got money from the townspeople from seeing the angel,” With the money they saved they built a two story mansion… the chicken coop was the only thing that didn’t receive any attention”.

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Evan, Jessie, Lily, Aspasia, Sierra, Jami A

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"Pelayo and Elisenda were happy with fatigue, for in less than a week they had crammed their rooms with money and the line of pilgrims waiting their turn to enter still reached beyond the horizon" (4).

"All he had left were the bare cannulae of his last feathers. Pelayo threw a blanket over him and extended him the charity of letting him sleep in the shed, and only then did they notice that he had a temperature at night..." (7).

"Especially during the first days, when the hens pecked at him, searching for the stellar parasites that proliferated in his wings, and the cripples pulled out feathers to touch their defective parts with, and even the most merciful threw stones at him, trying to get him to rise so they could see him standing" (5).

"The angel was no less standoffish with [the child] than with the other mortals, but he tolerated the most ingenious infamies with the patience of a dog who had no illusions" (7.)

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After first finding the old man with wings they didn't know what to do with him so they locked him up in a chicken coop. "Pelayo watched over him all afternoon from the kitchen, armed with his bailiffs club, before going to bed he dragged him out of the mud and locked him up with the hens in the wire chicken coop." (Garcia Marquez, 4)

The town when they discovered the old man's existence didn't react well to it
"The news of the captive angel spread with such rapidity that after a few hours the courtyard had the bustle of a marketplace and they had to call in troops with fixed bayonets to disperse the mob that was about to knock the house down." (Garcia Marquez, 6)

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People are cruel toward things they do not know or are not familiar with because the unknown scares them.

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Humans are naturally cruel and compassion is often driven by self interest.

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When the angel is locked up while people are torturing him its said that “his only supernatural virtue seemed to be patience”

When Pelayo and Elisenda build a nice house “ the chicken coop is the only thing that didnt receive any attention” which is where the angel stated

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The pedo/groomer professess to Tita: “Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help."

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People fear the things they do not understand.

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Humans are naturally cruel for there own gain.

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“He’s an angel,” she told them. “He must have been coming for the child, but the poor fellow is so old that the rain knocked him down.”(AVOMWEW).

" Elisenda, her spine all twisted from sweeping up so much marketplace trash, then got the idea of fencing in the yard and charging five cents admission to see the angel."

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People will do cruel things to compassionate people for their own benefit

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Natural cruelty is the product of a distorted image.

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July Quotes - Evan, Jessie, Lily, Aspasia, Sierra, Jami A

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July Quotes - Evan, Jessie, Lily, Aspasia, Sierra, Jami A

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"During the funeral Tita really wept for her mother. Not for the castrating mother who had repressed Tita her entire life, but for the person who had lived a frustrated love" (138).

"It would have been better to stay at John's house without ever giving a thought to the fate that might befall Mama Elena. But the pangs of her conscious wouldn't let her" (131).

"and she would drink that before eating the food, to counteract the effects of the bitter posin that according to her was dissolved in [Tita's cooking]" (135).

"Chencha served the meal and tasted it as she always did, but when Mama Elena was given some of it to eat, she immediately detected a bitter taste." (134).

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Cruelty can destroy a person's self-worth; however, compassion can work to rekindle it.

Compassion can be a catalyst for cruelty, and cruelty can be a catalyst for compassion.

The effects of cruelty are just as potent and long-lasting as those of compassion.

Cruelty is very easy to inflict, but is very difficult to remedy.

Even if you are raised in a cruel environment, you can still be a compassionate person.

Being shown compassion is the only way that one can recognize and heal from past cruelty.

Cruelty has lasting and detrimental impacts, but compassion can help to heal those affected by it.

A person who has only ever known cruelty won't recognize the effects of that cruelty until they are shown compassion.

Trauma caused by cruelty can be healed with compassion, but healing takes time, effort, and patience.

Cruelty often breeds further cruelty.

Compassionate relationships are often one-sided: there is a giver and a taker.

Isolation can be far crueler than any words or violence.

Too much compassion for someone or something can create unnecessary cruelty.

Compassion can foster growth, while cruelty can keep people down.