Analysis on Like Water for Choclate
Farzad Yousefian
English 271
Essay 4, Final draft
Literary analysis on “Like Water for Chocolate” Like water for chocolate is a novel is divided in monthly installments, with imaginative mix of Romance, home remedies and recipes, published in 1989, it is Laura Esquivel’s first novel which earned the title of the best seller in the author’s native Mexico. The story is set in Mexico at the turn of the 19th century, when Mexico is burning in the fever of revolution. Using the techniques of magic realism the author has created a novel of passion, love and a woman’s search for her fulfillment and identity.
Tita is the youngest daughter of the De La Garza family who lives with her brutal mother, her two sisters and Nacha who cooks for the family. According to a family tradition, marriage is forbidden for the youngest daughter of the family, she has to serve her widowed mother until the last day of her mother’s life. Right after her birth Tita makes a strong connection with Nacha and the kitchen becomes her playground, and after she is forbidden from marrying to her love, this playground becomes her entire world. But after years of obeying her mother, Tita starts fighting back to gain the respect that she deserves.
Laura Esquivel
She was born in 1951 in Mexico, she is the daughter of Julio Caesar Esquivel, her grandmother had a chapel in their house, between the kitchen and the dining room, the mixture of the smells from the chapel and nuts, garlic and chilies from the kitchen gave her the inspiration of her first novel.
Character Analysis
A-Nacha
Nacha is the cook of the family and the ranch, shortly after brought into the world prematurely, Tita builds a strong relationship with Nacha. Mama Elena loses her husband shortly after Tita’s birth and she is not able to feed Tita. Nacha takes responsibility for feeding the newborn. Growing up mostly in the kitchen, Tita gets exposed to the magical world of cooking and being so close To Nacha, Tita finds the
English 271
Essay 4, Final draft
Literary analysis on “Like Water for Chocolate” Like water for chocolate is a novel is divided in monthly installments, with imaginative mix of Romance, home remedies and recipes, published in 1989, it is Laura Esquivel’s first novel which earned the title of the best seller in the author’s native Mexico. The story is set in Mexico at the turn of the 19th century, when Mexico is burning in the fever of revolution. Using the techniques of magic realism the author has created a novel of passion, love and a woman’s search for her fulfillment and identity.
Tita is the youngest daughter of the De La Garza family who lives with her brutal mother, her two sisters and Nacha who cooks for the family. According to a family tradition, marriage is forbidden for the youngest daughter of the family, she has to serve her widowed mother until the last day of her mother’s life. Right after her birth Tita makes a strong connection with Nacha and the kitchen becomes her playground, and after she is forbidden from marrying to her love, this playground becomes her entire world. But after years of obeying her mother, Tita starts fighting back to gain the respect that she deserves.
Laura Esquivel
She was born in 1951 in Mexico, she is the daughter of Julio Caesar Esquivel, her grandmother had a chapel in their house, between the kitchen and the dining room, the mixture of the smells from the chapel and nuts, garlic and chilies from the kitchen gave her the inspiration of her first novel.
Character Analysis
A-Nacha
Nacha is the cook of the family and the ranch, shortly after brought into the world prematurely, Tita builds a strong relationship with Nacha. Mama Elena loses her husband shortly after Tita’s birth and she is not able to feed Tita. Nacha takes responsibility for feeding the newborn. Growing up mostly in the kitchen, Tita gets exposed to the magical world of cooking and being so close To Nacha, Tita finds the