When she was a child, one Christmas Tita recieved a special gift from Nacha, the De la Garza’s partially deaf cook who practically raised Tita after her father died. Nacha saved money and got Tita a zoetrope, which is a device that produces the illusion of motion by displaying on the wall a sequence of drawings or photographs. Tita loved that present and used to watch the pictures with her sisters for hours.