My Book Review
Like Water for Chocolate
During the Spring Break, I ventured to read the novel "Like Water for Chocolate" divinely written by the successful Mexican Laura Esquivel. This novel,published in 1989, was translated into 36 languages and was a total worldwide sales success with almost 3 million copies. I consider that this story has a high level of understanding,because the novel is written within the parameters of magical realism (where unreal situations are shown as everyday). The story is developed in 239 pages.
Like Water for Chocolate tells the story of Tita De la Garza,a Mexican girl who since her birth had direct contact with the kitchen. This novel is developed in the ranch located in Piedras Negras, Mexico at the beginning of the 20th century. In this drama, Tita, one of the daughters of Mama Elena, is condemned to follow a family tradition in which "the youngest daughter must take care of her mother until she dies". Tita is immensely in love with Pedro Muzquiz, however these can not accommodate her feeling because Tita cannot get married for following the Heron tradition. From there, begin to arise conflicts where love is interspersed with suffering and relief through the
elaboration of passionate and sensual recipes.
I give this novel a five star ranking because it is a hypnotizing story full of intense and dramatic moments. In addition, Esquivel masterfully uses the similes to describe the different feelings of his characters. It is a story that gives us a walk for love, despotism, traditions, passion, sex, drama, family and culinary traditions.
The main character are Tita De La Garza,Mama Elena, Pedro Muzquiz and Rosaura. Tita is the youngest daughter of Mama Elena. Tita is a young woman who was raised in the kitchen, with great skills to prepare exquisite recipes, inherited from her nana Nacha. Since she was born, Tita was very tearful. She is a loving young woman and afraid
of her despot mother.She is of noble heart and very passionate.Mama Elena is a bitter and frustrated woman who after her husband died took over the ranch where they lived. She is a willful woman and feared by her daughters and servants.Pedro Muzquiz is the young man who is hopelessly in love with Tita. He is a man of few but firm words. Pedro decides to marry Rosaura, the older sister of Las Garzas, and thus be able to be near Tita. Rosaura is the sister of Tita, and who at the behest of her mother, marries Pedro Muzquiz.
I had a two favorite passage in this book,because through them, feelings are materialized.
p. 15 and 16" How unfortunate that black holes in space had not been discovered, for then she might have understood the black hole in the center of her chest, infinite coldness flowing through it ". " She turned her head, and her eyes met Pedro's. It was then she understood how dough fells when it is plunged into boiling oil. The heat invaded her body was so real she was afraid, she would start to bubble".
During the Spring Break, I ventured to read the novel "Like Water for Chocolate" divinely written by the successful Mexican Laura Esquivel. This novel,published in 1989, was translated into 36 languages and was a total worldwide sales success with almost 3 million copies. I consider that this story has a high level of understanding,because the novel is written within the parameters of magical realism (where unreal situations are shown as everyday). The story is developed in 239 pages.
Like Water for Chocolate tells the story of Tita De la Garza,a Mexican girl who since her birth had direct contact with the kitchen. This novel is developed in the ranch located in Piedras Negras, Mexico at the beginning of the 20th century. In this drama, Tita, one of the daughters of Mama Elena, is condemned to follow a family tradition in which "the youngest daughter must take care of her mother until she dies". Tita is immensely in love with Pedro Muzquiz, however these can not accommodate her feeling because Tita cannot get married for following the Heron tradition. From there, begin to arise conflicts where love is interspersed with suffering and relief through the
elaboration of passionate and sensual recipes.
I give this novel a five star ranking because it is a hypnotizing story full of intense and dramatic moments. In addition, Esquivel masterfully uses the similes to describe the different feelings of his characters. It is a story that gives us a walk for love, despotism, traditions, passion, sex, drama, family and culinary traditions.
The main character are Tita De La Garza,Mama Elena, Pedro Muzquiz and Rosaura. Tita is the youngest daughter of Mama Elena. Tita is a young woman who was raised in the kitchen, with great skills to prepare exquisite recipes, inherited from her nana Nacha. Since she was born, Tita was very tearful. She is a loving young woman and afraid
of her despot mother.She is of noble heart and very passionate.Mama Elena is a bitter and frustrated woman who after her husband died took over the ranch where they lived. She is a willful woman and feared by her daughters and servants.Pedro Muzquiz is the young man who is hopelessly in love with Tita. He is a man of few but firm words. Pedro decides to marry Rosaura, the older sister of Las Garzas, and thus be able to be near Tita. Rosaura is the sister of Tita, and who at the behest of her mother, marries Pedro Muzquiz.
I had a two favorite passage in this book,because through them, feelings are materialized.
p. 15 and 16" How unfortunate that black holes in space had not been discovered, for then she might have understood the black hole in the center of her chest, infinite coldness flowing through it ". " She turned her head, and her eyes met Pedro's. It was then she understood how dough fells when it is plunged into boiling oil. The heat invaded her body was so real she was afraid, she would start to bubble".
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