Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate is a great book that is largely enhanced due to the use of months as chapters. Each month is made up of a certain feeling depending on the time of year or season (Summer=Warm, Free Winter=Depressing, Sad) and a mexican recipe that helps the reader organize the story and allows relationships to develop. In addition, the months help to further organize the story and show Tita’s phases of her young life. The layout of Like Water For Chocolate is beneficial to the stories readability and character development.
In order to help the readers have an insight into the book, Esquivel includes the recipes at the beginning of the chapters because those recipes allow for relationship development in the specific …show more content…
John Brown’s house, Tita had returned to her senses,” (Esquivel 123). Tita has been very depressed and silent at John’s house and has not been herself, but as soon as she tastes the soup, she gets better and begins talking to John and Chencha. The Ox-Tail soup helps Chencha and Tita to become closer and support each other along with allowing Tita to express her appreciation towards John. John and Tita then agree to get married and their relationship develops into what Tita calls “true love.” Another example is in September, where the recipe at the beginning of this chapter is Chocolate and Three Kings’ Day Bread, which Tita begins to make in this chapter. Tita wishes for someone to help support her because of all …show more content…
The seasons, spring, summer, fall, and winter can add detail to the main elements of the plot, exposition, rising action, climax, falling actions, and resolution. The seasons can also explain a character’s physical and emotional journey. Spring can represent a new beginning like the exposition of the plot and the birth or introduction of a character. The summer can represent the rising action and climax of the story. The summer could also represent when the character is facing their greatest challenges and turmoil, and when the the tension continues to build to its breaking point in the story. The fall represents the falling action of the plot and the the actions that lead to the resolution. The winter can represent the resolution of the plot but could also represent the beginning because of the cold and dead characteristics of winter may lead to the youthfulness and liveliness of spring. The story “Like Water for Chocolate” is organized into the twelve months of the year. The story begins in January which is the winter, and as such the story had a very sorrowful beginning with Tita, the main character, being born with a life sentence of not being able to wed. This quote explains the sadness surrounding Tita’s birth: “Tita had no need for the usual slap on the bottom, because she was already crying when she emerged; maybe that was because she
In order to help the readers have an insight into the book, Esquivel includes the recipes at the beginning of the chapters because those recipes allow for relationship development in the specific …show more content…
John Brown’s house, Tita had returned to her senses,” (Esquivel 123). Tita has been very depressed and silent at John’s house and has not been herself, but as soon as she tastes the soup, she gets better and begins talking to John and Chencha. The Ox-Tail soup helps Chencha and Tita to become closer and support each other along with allowing Tita to express her appreciation towards John. John and Tita then agree to get married and their relationship develops into what Tita calls “true love.” Another example is in September, where the recipe at the beginning of this chapter is Chocolate and Three Kings’ Day Bread, which Tita begins to make in this chapter. Tita wishes for someone to help support her because of all …show more content…
The seasons, spring, summer, fall, and winter can add detail to the main elements of the plot, exposition, rising action, climax, falling actions, and resolution. The seasons can also explain a character’s physical and emotional journey. Spring can represent a new beginning like the exposition of the plot and the birth or introduction of a character. The summer can represent the rising action and climax of the story. The summer could also represent when the character is facing their greatest challenges and turmoil, and when the the tension continues to build to its breaking point in the story. The fall represents the falling action of the plot and the the actions that lead to the resolution. The winter can represent the resolution of the plot but could also represent the beginning because of the cold and dead characteristics of winter may lead to the youthfulness and liveliness of spring. The story “Like Water for Chocolate” is organized into the twelve months of the year. The story begins in January which is the winter, and as such the story had a very sorrowful beginning with Tita, the main character, being born with a life sentence of not being able to wed. This quote explains the sadness surrounding Tita’s birth: “Tita had no need for the usual slap on the bottom, because she was already crying when she emerged; maybe that was because she