Book Review: Like Water For Chocolate

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Gabriel Cabral
Ms. Roche
Period 3
Book of Revolution A revolution is where people try to overthrow their leader because they disagree on how the government runs. Some revolution are bloody because of how the deadly the violence are. One of those revolution is the Mexican revolution. This revolution can be related to the book called Like Water for Chocolate written by Laura Esquirel. In the book, the De la Garza household revolution is similar to the Mexican Revolution because most of the characters from the family represents people from the Mexican Revolution and the events that had happen in the book is relative to what took place in the Revolution, but the difference in that is the cause of the revolt and most of the De la Garza family are women. First, Esquirel uses characters to compare people from the revolution. One of those example is Mama Elena compared to Porfirio Diaz. Mama Elena was hated and caused Tita to revolt because of the tradition for her to not marry until her mother dies and how she was being treated. This goes to Diaz because he abused his power and not listened to the people who is supporting him causing them to rebel. Mama Elena is cruel because of her actions. Esquirel shows
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In the De la Garza family Tita didn’t like the tradition in which the youngest can not marry and has to stay with her mother until she dies. While in the Mexican Revolution, people did not like the way Porfirio Diaz run his presidency because he misuse his power and ignored the people. The tension increased when Mama Elena said this words, “ If you really want Pedro to get married, allow me to suggest my daughter Rosaura. . .” (Esquirel pg.13). Meaning that Mama Elena could care less about how Tita feels because she suggested the love of her life to marry her sister. This is important because this part increase the problem between Tita and Mama Elena exponentially.

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