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Como Agua Para Chocolate Tita Victim Quotes
Tita is a Victim
Tita is more of a Victim than a Creator. Tita is a person that in times has a tendency of victimizing herself by not doing anything in a situation or makes an excuse to not do it. One of the ways Tita is a Victim is when she blames someone else in a situation than herself. At Mama Elena’s funeral Tita had gotten a moment to see Pedro, her endless love. Pedro had approach Tita with a hug after her sister, Rosaura. But Tita was still hurt with Pedro and the decision he had made by living her behind. Pedro, Rosaura, and Roberto starting a new life at San Antonio. “Pedro didn’t deserve to have her love him so much. He had shown weakness by going away and leaving her, she could not forgive him” (Esquivel 139). In Tita’s situation …show more content…
But Tita has the right to not be like how she was before with Pedro. Pedro would tell Tita he had love for her no matter if she is with Rosaura. She isn’t attached to him as before, feeling betrayed by Pedro was still in her mind and nothing that Pedro would tell her can change what’s in her mind.
The second way Tita is a Victim is when she believes her life is mostly created by outside forces. At De La Garza ranch, Tita had told Mama Elena that Pedro wanted to speak to her. Mama Elena knew exactly what Pedro had wanted and that was to ask for Tita’s hand in marriage. But Mama Elena told Tita he should not bother on coming to the ranch it was going to be a waste of time for both of them. Tita had disagreed with Mama Elena, so first time Tita had talked back to her mother. Offending Mama Elena, she told Tita that for generations not a single person in her family has ever questioned there tradition and no daughter of hers was going to start it. “Tita lowered her head, and the realization of her fate struck her as forcibly as her tears struck the table. From then on they knew, she and the table, that they could
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