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In 7 pages, the author compares the movie and book versions of Like Water for Chocolate or Como agua para chocolate by Laura Esquivel. It is a story that is too hot to handle: forbidden love, matriarchal dominance, the supernatural, and the special Mexican recipes that become more than enticing dishes. The protagonist is Tita, the youngest daughter in a family of three daughters who, because of a tradition imposed by her mother, is not allowed to marry the man she loves. When comparing the movie version and the novel, one will note that the movie version evokes images of mistreatment, disdain, and provocation, which are not in the book. A free Roman Numeral Sentence Outline is included. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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special Mexican recipes that become more than enticing dishes. In fact, some of them are out of this world because of the effect they have on others. The
protagonist is Josefita or Tita, the youngest daughter in a family of three daughters who, because of a tradition imposed by her mother, Mama Elena, is not allowed to marry
the man she loves. When comparing the movie version and the novel Like Water for Chocolate or Como agua para chocolate by Laura Esquivel, one will note that the
movie version evokes images of mistreatment, disdain, and provocation, which are not in the book. According to Mujica, "If
you loved the movie based on Like Water for Chocolate but havent read the novel, run out and buy the book. Tita is more captivating, Pedro more dashing, Nacha
more nurturing, Gertrudis more outrageous and Mama Elena more odious on the page than on the screen" (Mujica 60). Simon found the movie
to be "initially attention-grabbing, but soon fulsome, overrich, and Indigestible" and that "Miss Esquivel represents the feminist branch of magic realism, the Latin American fictional mode that swept the world
ever since Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize" (Simon 64). The novel was an attention grabber and did have it elements of supernatural but could not really be called
feminist. One must consider the time period in which the novel took place. Both the novel and the movie start with cooking.
Cooking and lifes encounters are juxtaposed. Passion and food juxtapose. Titas food took on an almost otherworldly characteristic: when she was sad, Titas food made others
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