Like Water for Chocolate

The theme of the poem “Chocolate” by Rita Dove is Seductive. I believe seductiveness is the theme of the poem because the author, Rita Dove, describes her love for chocolate almost as if it were a person for whom which she is so greatly affectionate towards. But she is not talking about a human being, instead she is talking about chocolate. She is displaying her love for chocolate to the readers. A line in her poem that has me believing this is “Pleasure seeker, if I let you you’d liquefy…

Like Water for Chocolate, written by Laura Esquivel, is about a young girl named Tita De La Garza, who deals with lots of struggles getting through her life in general. This novel takes place during the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through 1917. Tita, the main character/narrator, grew up on a ranch somewhere distant in Mexico. She lives with her mother known as Mama Elena, and two sisters, Gertrudis and Rosaura. Tita is the youngest of Mama Elena 's daughters while Gertrudis is the eldest.…

As many writers do, both Nathaniel Hawthorne and Laura Esquivel utilize a biased speaker in order to manipulate the reader’s interpretation of certain characters. In her novel, Like Water for Chocolate, Esquivel’s narrator shows a sympathetic bias towards Tita, and leads the reader to condemn Mama Elena, the force which acts upon Tita. Similarly, the speaker in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter evokes sympathy in the reader for Hester, and establishes within the reader a sense of dislike for the…

Love is a powerful feeling that burns with a fiery passion. The novel Like Water for Chocolate presents this and many other ideas through the examples she shows with Magical Realism. Magical Realism is a genre in where realistic narratives are written along side with some of fantasy, which the novel uses to develop the plot of the itself. For example, there are multiple times when the characters see ghostly apparitions of their lost relatives, light the walls on fire as a result of their…

Laura esquirel begins to tell the life story of Tita de la garza in her book Like Water for Chocolate. Tita is born to Elena de la Garza who is the mother of Tita and her older sisters Rosaura and Gertrudis. Elena was seen as an untouchable person. None of them especially Tita doesn’t get to live very independent but instead live with their mother doing work like cooking, cleaning, washing and other Jobs. She basically controls the lives of Tita, Rosaura and Gertrudis. Throughout the story the…

“I won’t stand for disobedience, nor am I going to allow you to ruin your sister's wedding, with your acting like a victim.” Mama Elena is a character from the book Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. Mama Elena is a ranch owner and a mother of three girls, whose father died of a heart attack. Mama Elena also had a lover who fathered her middle child and was killed. Her husband’s heart attack was brought on upon him hearing this news. Mama Elena is an abusive, evil, and stubborn old…

In his novel, Chance, author Joseph Conrad famously said, “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men” (314). Conrad, it seems, is often correct – scores of novels focus in part, if not exclusively, on the relationship and accompanying power dynamic between men and women. For centuries, authors have explored different methods by which to more deeply probe the power struggle between men and women, as well as the power struggle between all people…

In the novel, Like Water For Chocolate, Laura Esquivel explores the meaning of love. She creates a character named Tita, a sweet and innocent girl with little knowledge about love. As the novel progress, Tita soon learns about the meaning of love by the influence of two men – John and Pedro. John is the reasonable doctor of Tita, and Pedro is Tita’s childhood sweetheart. Tita faces the challenge of choosing between John and Pedro. In the novel, Like Water For Chocolate, while John is caring, he…

housewives while men have to work outside? Why female is viewed as the weak and more evil side of the two? Throughout the human histories, women are often required to fulfill certain gender roles the society set up upon them. In the novel of Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel and Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, the female protagonists Tita and Emma use fervor of the youth to conform the social expectations while challenge them through portray of motherhood and relationship with men.…

The people we love can hurt us the most even if it’s supposed to help us grow and help us learn their mistake. In the book Like water for chocolates, the author Laura Esquirel, wrote about how a girl named Tita. Tita is the youngest daughter of mama Elena, illicit by the family tradition from marrying Pedro in order to take care of her mother until the day she dies with no interference. Tita always strives for love, freedom, and individuality. Mama Elena is the leader of the De La Gaza family.…