“You know perfectly well that being the youngest daughter means you have to take care of me until the day I die”(10). In the novel Like Water by Chocolate or Como agua para chocolate, Laura Esquivel expresses the true meaning of De la Garza family tradition that the narrator receives from her great-aunt, Tita. This truly demonstrates the passion and grief of oneself for others. Deep thoughts and emotions are described through Tita’s life with the uses of magical realism of heat to represent passion, and cold to represent grief and bitter.

Through the story, Tita’s feeling for Pedro is described by the heat that she sensates whenever Pedro expresses his love for her. She feels the heat, not outside, but from her heart of true love that strikes