Like Water for Chocolate Lesson Plan

Describe Tita's birth. How does it foreshadow events in this section?

The narrator opens the story by explaining that they, like their great-aunt Tita, are unable to stop crying when cutting an onion. Tita was so incredibly sensitive to onions that she began to cry while still in her mother's womb as she chopped them. She was said to have cried so intensely that her mother went into early labor and delivered Tita right there in the kitchen. Tita's tears proceeded to flood the kitchen floor. Nacha was able to sweep up the salt from the tears to fill a ten-gallon bag that the kitchen used for months.

Tita's birth foreshadows how powerful her emotions are. They are able...