The aspect of religion in Love in the Times of Cholera and Like Water for Chocolate

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The aspect of religion in Love in the Times of Cholera and Like Water for Chocolate

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        Because of the family tradition in the book “Like water for chocolate”

Tita is assigned the role of the care-giver and this family tradition requires that she cant get married to Pedro and instead she has to stay at the ranch and look after her widowed mother all of her life and in the De La Garza family one obeyed immediately, so therefore, she had no choice but to follow the traditions or she faces the consequences. Catholism also plays a huge role as far as religion is concerned, because Tita and her family grew up in a catholic family. Moreover, catholism is also a huge factor in Tita’s life, because in one part of the book she feels so guilty that she sees Mama Elena’s ghost scolding her for her intimate relationship with Pedro. The ghost of Mama Elena was a representation of Tita’s guilt – sleeping with her lover Pedro who is already married to her sister, because she feels shame every time Mama Elena’s ghost appears. Tita was affected greatly by this tradition, because she did not want to take care of her mother till old age, because she felt that somebody should also be there to take care of her in her own old age, hence Tita is only one who questions the tradition Mama Elena tries to keep alive and faces her consequences.  

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        In the book “Love in the times of Cholera” Dr. Urbino and his family also practiced catholism as their religion, because in the book they mentioned that he and his family were religious people and they went to mass every Sunday of the week. According to the Catholics and Dr.Urbino, it is a sin to cheat on your spouse when you’re married, which is what Dr.Urbino did. So therefore, he went to church to ask god for forgiveness of his sins and went to do confession with the priest as his repent.

As far as Florentino is concerned, he ...

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