Like Water For Chocolate Reflection

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel explores the lifestyle that many woman of Mexico were faced with during the Mexican Revolution around the years of 1910-1920. Published in 1989, the book gained so much support that a movie was produced to go along with it. Three years later, the book was translated to English and released in America. The film representation of this story also become increasingly popular. As a consequence of this publishing, many authors who had written similar stories of oppressed women also gained popularity during this time. There are an incredible amount of differences between the world as described by this book and the one we are living in today. In following this story, the reader gathers invaluable insight
Rosaura is also unable to provide breast milk for Roberto, her son. This seems to be a cause of the dangerous unsupervised birthing process she endured. As a result of this lack of nutirition, Tita attempts to care for the child and grows particularly attached to this motherly role. When news comes that Pedro, Rosaura, and baby Roberto are planning a move to San Antonio in the United States, Tita’s hopes of being with Pedro and also continuing her care for Roberto are crushed. She falls into a deep depression and loses her passion and inspiration to
Tita’s life is full of loneliness and sadness due to the fact that she was the youngest woman in the family. Social norms during this time period strongly dictated how women were “supposed” to act, and this took away the freedom for women to live how they desired. Because Tita was prevented from showing her true emotions through her entire life, she was never able to fully experience life at its greatest. This is a primary disadvantage many woman faced during this time period and many women are still in this position today. This book represents this gender inequality very