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Summary: Family Traditions
Review: In my 12th grade English class we had to read Like Water For Chocolate. It is an amazing book about family traditions, magic, and romance. One of the main traditions is that the youngest born girl has to take care of the mom until she dies. Well, in this book Tita was the youngest born girl who had to take care of Mama Elena. Mama Elena made Tita do everything. She learned how to cook and clean when she was very young. Everything she knew was because of her best friend, Nacha, who was the family's maid. The chapters in this book are organized by months, January through December, also every chapter has its own recipe. It tells you the ingredients and then how to make it. Tita falls in love with a man named Pedro. Pedro is also in love with Tita but can not marry her because of her having to take care of Mama Elena. Pedro loved Tita so much that he decided to marry her oldest sister, Rosaura, just so he could be close to her. Pedro would always compliment Tita on the way she cooked. Mama Elena did not like the way they would act toward each other so she sent Pedro and Rosaura to live in Texas. Tita hated her mother because of what she had done to her. This book is the best book I have ever read. I recommend it to everyone that loves to laugh and read about romance. I am glad that we had to read it in my English class. I rate this book on a scale of one to five a five because of how different it is and it deals with a Mexican family's tradition. I also feel that this book is a lot better to understand it if you watch the movie after you read it. I feel everyone should read this book and watch the movie.
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Summary: Food for the imagination, is just as tasty.
Review: Laura Esquivel cooks up a novel like no other. "Like Water for Chocolate", is a sensual, entertaining story that may leave a sensitive person in tears of sadness and joy, or is it the onions. The story follows a young girl named Tita De la Graza. Tita is faced with a life that would remind one of Cinderella, minus the stepsisters, stepmother, and royal balle. Tita, being the youngest of her family, is cursed with her family's dreadful tradition, that states that the youngest daughter may never marry unless she cares for her mother until she dies. Tita finds love with a young man named Pedro, these are two who are made for each other, but the only thing and person that stand in their way of marrying and being happy is Tita's mother and her tradition. Along with every chapter the reader is greeted with something very original; a recipe to old mexican dishes. Now no one knows if these recipes are true and valid, but this exquisite novel is truly a reader's choice worth 5 stars out of a scale of 1-4. So heres a recipe to a good time: 1 novel of "Like Water...", some free time, let yourself read for a while and let the novel simmer your imagination with the magical realism that takes place in this wonderful story.
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Summary: Like Water for Chocolate Review
Review: I recently read this for my Modren Lit class. This book is a middle school to a high school level. Some people might think that this book is for girl. I think it is for both man and woman because man can learn how to cook.For woman they can get recipes. In the book there is a close relationship between Tian and Nacha the cook. There relationship is like mother and daughter. There relationship is so close because Tita was born in the kitchen. Tita spend all the time in the kitchen. That is why Tita and Nacha had a close relationship. Also in the book there is a tradition that mother makes her follow. That tradition goes that the youngest chidren has to take care of there mother intel she dies. She can get married. I would recommend this book to people who like to read romances book.
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Summary: Whoa!
Review: I enjoyed the book Like Water for Chocolate a great deal and I found it to be quite interesting, it showed me many new things about other people and other traditions that I had not heard of before and which I found to be quite foolish. I don't know why the mother would force her youngest daughter to take care of her. Why must the young female be punished for being the youngest? Why must she be turned into a slave and have her life ruined just to take care of her ungrateful mother? The mother who ruined three lives, Tita, Pedro, and Rosaura. Mama Elena ruined Tita's life just because she was the youngest. She had to cook, clean, give her baths, and do whatever she said. Also by not letting her marry Pedro the love of her life. Pedro's life was ruined because even though he loved Tita he married her sister, Rosaura, just to be close to Tita. Mama Elena ruined Rosaura's life by forcing her to marry Pedro who she knew did not love her. That caused Rosaura great pain because she knew that the one he loved was Tita. I really enjoyed this book and I recommend it to everyone who wants to have a good laugh with Tita's recipes and her wacky sisters who are very unique. Also I am sure that you will enjoy the story a lot but you will probably agree with me when you hear about their traditions. Other than that I am sure that all ages will enjoy this book a lot.
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Summary: A sensually magical banquet & deliciously difficult romance
Review: Along with Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel confirms that the women writers of Latin America are more than apt at handling the marvelous magical realism that is the hallmark of that region's contemporary literature. This novel is simply a fiesta of voluptuousity, engaging the senses and sense memories in the finest Proustian manner. Esquivel is a potent stylist whose characters drawn from life, wondrously push the bounds of credulity, redefining not only those boundaries, but life itself. Like many of her lesser talented sister authors north of the Rio Grande, she writes page-turning prose and never ceases to engross and entertain her readers, all the while managing some totally virtuoso literary acrobatics. Viva Esquivel!
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Summary: great book
Review: This is a great book that kept me weeping for Tita and hungry for the delicous recipes she was cooking. I reccomend this book to anyone who loves romance, magic, and cooking.
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Summary: 4 A Great Read
Review: This is a well written novel, anyone intrested in a novel that has its share of delicious cooking recipes and romance to spice it up, this is your book. This is highly reccomended and a type of book that is hard to put down. You'll be amazed to see you might finish reading this book in no time.
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Summary: Recipes tell the story.
Review: A girl grows from infant to woman in a house where it is customary that the youngest daughter care for her mother in old age. Tita finds love in her teenage years, but is kept from Pedro by her mother's need for care. Bound and determined to go her own way, Tita defies her mother's rules, and her recipes reveal this. Through monthly recipes she tells the story of her life and portrays a sense of personal values and how deeply life can be effected by family. Laura Esquivel creates an extended metaphor to portray this story and allows the reader to open up to Tita and feel her secrets. By incorporating food into this story, a relationship is formed that one would never think could be so strong. The way the food is prepared each and every month has a strong dependence on what will happen in the month and Tita's life. Every food is prepared with such care and emotion that Tita's feelings are shared with all those who eat her delicacy. The metaphor created by Esquivel connects two very different things into one airtight bond.
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Summary: It Fills All Of Your Senses
Review: "Like Water For Chocolate" is a rich and full novel about love, family, and jealousy. The binding force of the entire novel is food and the relationship it can bring to a family. It allows emotions and feelings to surface and create various actions. The receipes in the book serve as a narative into Tita's (the main characters)soul. It's a wonderful novel that wraps around you and captures your interest. Very Good!
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Summary: I Like Water For Chocolate
Review: I enjoyed I LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE. You can never get bored with it. There's always something happening page by page. The ending was different, but the rest of the story was very interesting.
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