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The Significance Of Food In "Like Water For Chocolate"
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Food equals memory and memory equals immortality. In the recipes we
pass down from generation to generation, in the food of our mothers, we
reawaken the past, make the present more real, perhaps capture a bit of the
future. Food is about histo .... Middle of Term Paper
... (the title
is a good tip-off of that). Hardly a scene goes by without someone eating
or preparing a meal and some of the more hilarious sequences surround a
pair of banquets. Each of these scenes has a meaning beyond the obvious,
however. Food is equated with life and excitement, two subjects into which
this story pursues. Sex, food and magic are mixed in sparingly in the
story, which revolves about Tita, third daughter of a Elena.
The time is the early 1900's and the Mexican Revolution is raging,
but in the kitchen of the family ranch, the emphasis is on cooking. The
family servant, Nacha, Tita's surrogate mother, teaches the her sec ... |
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