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Esperanza's White Diapers

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In Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate, she illustrates the diverse relations of love and apathy between the characters by using the motif of red and white. “Esperanza’s white diapers were sprayed with blood” (217) symbolizes that Esperanza, as the only daughter of Rosaura, would have a loveless life due to their familial traditions. The stained red blood symbolizes that she will have the feeling of love. Furthermore, the diapers that were destroyed demonstrate that the blood will not be able to be removed from the diapers, which seals her fate to have a life without love. “After that fight only three chickens remained, plucked bald and one eyed. And no diapers.”(217). The diapers being buried are a symbol for the people that get caught

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