Values Of Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen And Laura Esquivel

Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen and the Laura Esquivel’s Like Water For Chocolate both offer perspicacious views on the impact of context and values on an individual with social political and cultural aspects. Both texts present the prevalent issues from each book’s respective social zeitgeist on the strain tradition puts on personal beliefs and values. Yoshimoto’s work explores the growth of a young woman in a modern society still heavily embedded with cultural tradition yet with conventional ideas of ethical issues from the influence of western values with tones of magic realism. Esquivel’s novella highlights life during the Mexican revolution with issues of standards for women and female oppression, closely tied with freedom, which the central character is confined to in her conventional upbringing. Both works present the reader with percipient views in apropos to the conflict regarding individual’s values in an orthodox society through the investigation of the existence of social inequality, personal ties with religion and …show more content…
In Kitchen as Mikage is in her pursuit of happiness, she finds herself escaping reality in a dream where she is cleaning the kitchen with Yuichi it is an allegory, as they both clean the kitchen they are cleaning their worries and past away and also the sorrows and grief’s of the deaths surrounding their lives. Surprisingly when they meet the next day, Yuichi informs her that he too also had the same dream. Likewise in Like Water For Chocolate Tita’s recipes have paranormal effects like when she cries a literal river of tears and spirits appearing. The spirits that surround Tita symbolise the lasting effect of those who impacted our lives and our own feelings of duty and responsibility. The use of magic realism has helped convey the work in different outlook on society and its standards different from an objective