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"Tita knew that discussion was not one of the forms of communication permitted in Mama Elena's household."

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“she would invent new recipes hoping to repair the connection that flowed between them through the food she prepared” (69).

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“If there was one thing Tita couldn't resist, it was a hungry person asking for food” (P. 76)

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Mama Elena's relentless at putting down Tita for no reason at all.

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Mama Elena's relentless at putting down Tita for no reason at all.

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But Tita fights for power in this scene on page 130, when Mama Elena cruelly rejects the delicious soup Tita made for her: "instead of obeying her, Tita turned away, trying not to let her mother see her frustration."

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"Rosaura... felt a slight lifting of the guilt she felt for having married Tita's sweetheart" (156).

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“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” (109).

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"Tita took the child, now satisfied, from her breast," (108)

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"She felt like screaming, Yes, she was having problems, when they had chosen something to be neutered, they'd made a mistake, they should have chosen her. At least then there would be some justification for not allowing her to marry and giving Rosaura her place beside the man she loved" (27).

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The baby's cries filled all the empty space in Tita's heart. She realized that she was feeling a new love for life, for this child, for Pedro, even for the sister she had despised for so long. (73)

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Tita refusing to let Rosaura's new baby be named after her, so she wouldn't have the same fate as Tita.

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Tita refusing to let Rosaura's new baby be named after her, so she wouldn't have the same fate as Tita.

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"Tita prayed that that the idea of perpetuating this cruel tradition would not cross Rosaura's mind. To help keep that from happening, she didn't want to give her any ideas with the name, so she pressed day and night until they agreed to call her Esperanza." (147)
Mattie

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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.

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With that meal it had seemed they discovered a new system of communication, in which Tita was the transmitter, Pedro the receiver, and poor Gertrudis the medium, the conducting body through which the single sexual message was passed.

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“You know how men are. They all say they won’t eat off a plate that isn’t clean.”

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"Here's what I do with your orders! I'm sick of them! I'm sick of obeying you!" (99)

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¨If only she could remember how to cook so much as a couple of eggs, enjoy any kind of food, if only she could...return to life¨ (124).

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"The meal wasn't as delicious as on some other occasions, perhaps because of the bad temper Tita was in while she prepared it, but neither could you say it wasn't pleasant" (157).

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“She couldn’t see any way to draw Chencha out of her depression, to dissuade her from the belief that no one would marry her after the violent attack she had suffered at the hands of bandits” (134).

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“Now, seeing [Tita's] 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.“

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She yearned with all her soul to be borne off by her hands. She stood that way for a while, looking at the deep blue of the sky around her motionless hands. Tita thought the miracle was actually occurring when she saw her fingers turning into a thin cloud rising to the sky. She prepared to ascend drawn by a superior power, but nothing happened. Disappointed, she discovered that the smoke wasn't hers. (109)

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"'It is a dish for the gods!' Mama Elena knew that the quail was exquisite; nonetheless, Pedro's remark did not sit well with her, and she replied: 'It's too salty.'"

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"Only Rosaura could have thought to perpetuate such an inhuman tradition" (150).

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"Chencha found Tita holding the pigeon. She didn't seem to realize it was dead... Tita looked up, her eyes vacant, and stared at Chencha as if she had never seen her before" (100).

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"...With Nacha dead, Tita was the best qualified of all the women in the house to fill the vacant post in the kitchen..." (47-48)
Mattie

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“She always allowed enough time to cook food perfectly, trying to organize her activities in such as way that she had the peacefulness she needed in the kitchen to be able to prepare such succulent dishes exactly as they should be prepared” (145).

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¨Tita felt a violent agitation take possession of her being: still fingering the sausage, she calmly met her mother´s gaze and then, instead of obeying her order, screaming wildly.
Here's what I do with your orders! I'm sick of them! I'm sick of obeying you!¨ (99).

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“If there was one thing Tita couldn't resist, it was a hungry person asking for food” (P. 76).

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"Without words, they made their mutual reproaches and thereby severed the strong tie of blood and obedience that had always bound them together, but could never be reestablished."

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"And so Esperanza would be the only child, the youngest child, and worst of all, a girl! Which meant, in the family tradition that she was designated to care for her mother until the end of her days."

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Surely the heat from her body, which was inflamed, by love, would travel with that gaze across an infinite distance, with no loss of energy, until it landed on the star she was watching.

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“Nacha was suddenly overcome with an intense longing...she thought back on all of the wedding banquets she had prepared for the De La Garza family, ever cherishing the illusion that the next wedding would be her own.” p36

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"Here's what I do with your orders! I'm sick of them! I'm sick of obeying you!" (99)

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"'It is a dish for the gods!' Mama Elena knew that the quail was exquisite; nonetheless, Pedro's remark did not sit well with her, and she replied: 'It's too salty."

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"The only part of Tita's body that he knew very well, other than her face and hands, was the little round bit of leg he'd once managed to glimpse. The memory of it tortured him each night. how he longed to place his hand over that little patch of skin, and then all over her, as he had seen the man who took Gertrudis do: madly, passionately, lustfully!" (57)