tita married pedro in like water for chocolate.
who does tita marry in like water for chocolate?
pedro
sometime later, rosaura becomes pregnant. one day, pedro brings tita a bouquet of roses to celebrate tita being the head cook. mama elena demands that tita throw them away, but tita instead uses them to create a rose sauce for a quail dinner. while eating the meal, everyone except rosaura becomes filled with sensual gratification. rosaura becomes sick and leaves the table. gertrudis becomes hot and goes to the outdoor shower. gertrudis becomes so overheated that the shower house catches fire. running naked out and away from the fire, gertrudis runs into juan alejandrez, a soldier fighting in the mexican revolution, on horseback. filled with a strong attraction to juan, gertrudis immediately jumps on the horse and leaves with him. tita sees this but tells mama elena that gertrudis was kidnapped and the soldiers set the shower house on fire. mama elena is informed by a family priest that gertrudis was forced into prostitution. tita secretly sends gertrudis her things. rosaura gives birth to a sickly son named roberto. rosaura is too sick to nurse roberto, so tita nurses him with pedro monitoring. still suspicious that tita and pedro are having an affair, mama elena sends rosaura, pedro and roberto to live in texas. a couple of months later, chencha informs mama elena and tita of roberto's death. tita is greatly saddened by this news, but mama elena tells her to show no emotion and to continue on with the kitchen chores. this causes tita to have an angry outburst, and mama elena slaps her with a wooden spoon resulting with a nose bleed. tita runs into the bird tower and mama elena has the ladder taken down. after a week of being in the bird tower, tita is rescued by dr. john brown, a family doctor, who takes her to his home in texas for treatment. chencha goes to visit tita and is shocked that she has recovered. tita tells chencha to tell mama elena that she is never coming back to the ranch. dr. brown, who has fallen in love with tita, proposes marriage and tita accepts. back at the ranch, a group of bandits invade the property, rape chencha and kill mama elena by pushing her off a cliff. tita and dr. brown return to the ranch to prepare mama elena's funeral. while dressing mama elena's body, tita discovers the locket and jewelry box containing the picture of mama elena's lover. pedro and rosaura, now pregnant again, return for mama elena's funeral, and rosaura's water breaks. rosaura has a difficult labor but gives birth to a healthy baby girl named esperanza. however, esperanza refuses to be fed by rosaura, so tita once again takes on the duties of nursing. due to complications in childbirth, rosaura is no longer able to have kids. to tita and pedro's dismay, rosaura imposes the family tradition on esperanza. upon finding out about tita's engagement to dr. brown, pedro becomes jealous, and he sneaks into tita's room to have sex with her.
like water for chocolate (film)
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the title "like water for chocolate" comes from the 1989 laura esquivel novel "like water for chocolate", which was adapted into a movie in 1992. the phrase "like water for chocolate" is of spanish origin (translated, "como agua para chocolate"). in many latin american countries, hot chocolate is made with water rather than milk. the phrase refers to someone who has reached their boiling point, like water ready to be used to make chocolate. in an interview with combustible the poet, common compared the main character tita de la garza's passion for food with his passion for music:
like water for chocolate (album)