The novel Like Water for Chocolate is set in the 1910-17 Mexican Revolution. Esquivel uses the revolution to examine how the characters in the book parallel themselves to the revolution and its goal of liberty. The Mexican Revolution was a time of change, and similar conflicts exist in the novel.
Ex.: The rebels fought the old government’s rule because they disagreed with it
Tita opposes Mama Elena’s rule and tradition
Mama Elena = the government who imposes old laws (the family tradition)
Tita = a rebel who is victim to the old tradition and disagrees with Elena’s rule
Hostility, trouble and death on the ranch = Hostility, trouble and death because of the Mexican Revolution.
The Mexican Revolution itself was not the first Mexican civil
Ex.: The rebels fought the old government’s rule because they disagreed with it
Tita opposes Mama Elena’s rule and tradition
Mama Elena = the government who imposes old laws (the family tradition)
Tita = a rebel who is victim to the old tradition and disagrees with Elena’s rule
Hostility, trouble and death on the ranch = Hostility, trouble and death because of the Mexican Revolution.
The Mexican Revolution itself was not the first Mexican civil