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Like Water For Chocolate Conclusion
This post is the thoughts and points. after today’s lecture (8/31).
In the novel, Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel, love tensions and rebellion play a role into both the theme and the plot. The popular TV reality show and “soap opera” like content, The Bachelorette follows one lady looking for love in the mist of many male suitors. In this instance, Tita, is the contestant. She narrowed it down to her final two, John Brown and Pedro. Let’s get to know our contestants background.
John Brown is an elite doctor at the asylum. He grows to care for Tita. After the arrival, “John’s large, loving hands, had taken off her clothes and bathed her and carefully removed the pigeon droppings form her body, leaving her clean and sweet-smelling”

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