Like Water for Chocolate

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Summary: This book was sad
Review: When I read this book I felt very sad because I dont like injustice Mama Elena was a frustrated woman because when she was teenager her parents doesnt like she married with a mulato man .When Mama Elena had daugthers she made the samething but she hate only of poor Tita.I like when spirit Mama Elena apeeread Tita said leave me alone I hate you I know you secret finally this cruel mother desapear forever.

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Summary: Romantic and tragedy
Review: That story is a very interesting for me because Laura Esquivel make mix between the fact and the fiction .For me was a good combination and I like it.I learned too about the tradition and the kitchen's secret,some are fact and the other was fiction;Mama Elena was important in this book because I understood about the valuable are the tradition but that situation sometimes are very terrible for anybody, maybe is better that tradition changed for a better life. I think the love is very important but too is difficult and some people suffred for many years.I like this book because is different for me and I though about my own tradition in my house. I like because Tita and Pedro will stayd together for ever and their love was very strong and big,and the love will important for everything.

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Summary: wonderful story
Review: I think this book is about a young girl whose mother's family had a tradition. In this story the young girl (TITA) sacrifices her love for the man she loved (PEDRO), so that she could take care of her mother until she died. The young girl who couldn't be with the man she loved expressed her love by the way she cooked. In every dinner plate she added something romantic.In this story we find a true love, with a lot of romance and the passion of the characters even despite the tradition, there weren't impediments for their love.

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Summary: Melancholy Love
Review: Like Water for Chocolate is a story about a melancholy love that Pedro suffered for Tita and a heartless mother never allowed that Tita comes true her love for Pedro.The end of the story was very sadness and I cried because Tita can't achieve her dream of love with the man who she love. I liked this story because I learned that never the mother have that being strict and severe with her children.

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Summary: The Unforgetable and Romantic story of Love!
Review: The wonderful tale gave me the opportunity to learn about Mexican cultural. When I read this book "Like Water for Chocolate", I was immersed in a passionate world, it was mixed up with exotic and delicious recipes; they were made by Tita. That bad tradition affected everyone around that house. Both sweethearts carried their love for a long time; after they finally were consumed.

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Summary: Great classroom novel
Review: My class of ESL students (and I) are completing this novel as part of our coursework this semester in New York City. Our class discussions about food, mother/daughter relationships, love, sibling rivalry, and family traditions have all been exciting and involving! The book lends itself to important discussions with a variety of points of view, which means it should make a good selection for a book club or another classroom. My students are studying English and although I was worried that it would be too difficult for them, it hasn't been at all. The images in the book (along with the video) have made the characters and story come alive. From what I can tell, this book has been a big hit - among all ages in the class too! I highly recommend it.

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Summary: A sweet little story
Review: Okay, the love story of Tita and Pedro is kinda corny, but the circumstances around them, the Mexican revolution, Mama Elena's cruelty, and, most important, Tita's recipes and the effects they have on those who enjoy them make up for that tiny detail. It is cleverly written, very sensual and charming, perfect for a lazy, rainy afternoon.

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Summary: Like Water for Chocolate
Review: Like Water for Chocolate is a magical, powerful novel that seemed to receive rave reviews. It demonstrates the power of a young woman's love, who bound by tradition must remain unmarried to care for her aging mother. This novel does an excellent job of portraying what it meant to be Mexican in that time period. Mamma Elena portrays an evil, selfish and controlling charictor. Padro, Tita's true love, comes off more to me as a weak unappealing character.Throughout the book he continually shies away, never voicing his opinion. Food seems to be the focus point of this story. Tita discovers her power to greatly influence people with her recipes. This is a disguise of her love for Pedro. This book carries a bit of a magical realism that some people may be able to relate to. You get to experience Tita's heartache and pain, loneliness and sorrow. Toward the end Padro, her true love comes back to her with the passion of ten thousand lost souls. As I read on I found my self more drawn and spellbound to this magical romance.

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Summary: true love will rise above
Review: When I first read this book I cried after the first chapter. This is a story about a young girl who finds true love and is force to give it up because of some out-date family tradition, but in the end her true love come back to her with the passion of ten thousand lost souls. This is a great story that anyone who lost their first love or anyone that you cared for deeply can and will related to. You will feel all Tita heartache,lonliness,and pain. You will never put it down. I know I read it three time back to back.

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Summary: Western civlization's decline continues...
Review: Let's not mince words: this novel is unreservedly horrible.The fact that many people have given it rave reviews speaks volumesabout how low our standards have dropped. I read this for a writing class, of all things--otherwise I never would've finished it, believe me. It started out bad, and so as I read on, I could only hope that it would get better as it went on. Amazingly, it actually got WORSE, culminating in an almost surreally ridiculous ending. Still, said ending made me laugh incredulously--it didn't actually make me angry. What DID anger me was the dearth of characters I could care about. Tita was weak and indecisive, but at least I didn't actually HATE her--no indeed, I reserve that hatred for Pedro, who is indeed one of the most unappealing characters I've ever encountered. He's weak, he's a bully, and to top it off, he's a rapist. He might have been an effective character, but for the fact that we were evidently meant to consider him a "good guy". I really resented the fact that Esquivel actually expected us to like this loser, but evidently many people did, scarily enough. Bleh. Still, unappealing characters and a goofy plot aren't all this book has against it. One of the most obvious problems is the little bits of recipes, which Esquivel integrates into the story with all the subtlety of a jackhammer. And, of course, all of this is ignoring the extremely bland narrative style and the horribly clumsy transitions (don't even get me STARTED on the oh-so-coy final chapter). I could say more, but I don't want to. I'm sick just thinking of this work of literary sludge. Those who pride themselves on having standards should stay far, far away.