Like Water For Chocolate is a perfect example of a traditional mexican culture beliefs, Tita with a mother that was taught the mexican tradition by her parents. That the last daughter shall take care of her mother until she dies, so she isn't allowed to marry anyone. Her sister Rosaura mary's Titas love of her life which is Pedro, but within the book they fight for their love even though Pedro is married and Mama Elena opposes their relationship. The book has twelve chapters, January through december, it’s a year in the book. 
        
In Like Water For Chocolate it shows psychoanalytic criticism and magical realism which then leads to the trIangle of projection, it starts with the emotion that one has, its emotions then is oppressed then leads to projection of those feelings because one couldn't do nothing to forget so those emotions are shown onto an object or another person. Magical realism is things that happened that are fiction that aren't normal, because of one thoughts. Both these traits are shown throughout Like water for chocolate, many examples and it’s a long process on how these traits work. 

I highly recommend Like Water For Chocolate because it shows how the Mexican culture was in the olden days and is still alive in some parts of Mexico's. Like Water For Chocolate has been translated  from the original Spanish into numerous languages. The novel has sold close to a million copies in Spain and Hispanic America and at last count, in 1993, more than 202,000 in the United States. A quote i found in Like Water For Chocolate, “You know perfectly well that being the youngest daughter means you have to take care of me until the day I die” Mama elena said this which leads to the tradition. When I read this book I saw how this book related to the Mexican culture, this book shows romance, passion, and other traits. Over all is loved this book, others can say it was a bad book but every person thinks different.