Like Water for Chocolate By Laura Esquivel

Magical Realism A genre used by many Latin-American writers. Fantastical elements are matter-of-factly included in writing to create vivid images, show characters’ thoughts and emotions, and reveal the human condition in everyday situations.

Like Water for Chocolate: Magical Realism “…Tita was literally washed into this world on a great tide of tears that spilled over the edge of the table and flooded across the kitchen floor”. Significance: Tita’s life will contain heartbreak and more tears.

Like Water for Chocolate: Magical Realism Compare and contrast Magical realism Realism

Like Water for Chocolate Describes the Mexican method of preparing hot chocolate where chunks of chocolate are melted in boiling water.

Like Water for Chocolate: Magical Realism “Gertrudis’ body was giving off so much heat that the wooden walls began to split and burst into flame”. “From what he’d said, Tita realized that the woman she’d sat with so often was John’s dead grandmother”.

Like Water for Chocolate: Magical Realism “As Rosaura walked past the window, she saw a strange glow coming from the dark room. Plumes of phosphorescent colors were ascending to the sky like delicate Bengal lights” “That hen hurricane was boring a hole in the dirt of the patio, a hole so deep that most of the chickens disappeared from the face of the earth”.

Like Water for Chocolate: Magical Realism “Tita got up and went running to the enormous bedspread that she had woven through night after night of solitude and insomnia, and she threw it over her. It covered the whole ranch, all three hectares”.

Like Water for Chocolate The phrase is a metaphor for passion. It can mean “boiling mad,” (intense emotions on the verge of eruption)

Like Water for Chocolate: Structure A novel in monthly installments with recipes, romances, and home remedies. Each chapter, named for a month begins with a recipe that corresponds to the events in that chapter.

Like Water for Chocolate: structure Each month introduces a recipe that corresponds to the events in that chapter. Each recipe is symbolic.

Mexican Revolution Repression of political dissent and economic repression of the peasants who made up the vast majority of the population. Wealth and power were concentrated in the hands of a few (President Porfirio Diaz, 30 year reign) On November 20, 1910, Francisco Madero called for an uprising. Francisco “Pancho” Villa in the north… Emiliano Zapata in the south… Constitution of 1917… Political unrest continued until the 1930s.

Mexican Revolution: Women Important roles Political activists like Dolores Jimenez and Hermila Galindo spoke out for women’s rights Soldaderas, or women soldiers performened camp and caregiving duties. Other women fought in battles and some like “Gertrudis” in Like Water for Chocolate became officers. Beginning of feminist issues and formation of future organizations.

Mexican Revolution: Women What was the main cause of the Mexican Revolution? Only a few people had power while the majority of the populations struggled. Porfirio Diaz= president and dictator Emilio Zapata = Francisco I. Madero = revolutionary leader from northern Mexico Plan of San Luis

Mexican Revolution: Women Hermila Galindo Treaty of Ciudad Juarez Venustiano Carranza Contstitution A document that states land reform and labor laws.

Vocabulary Ch. 1 Literally = actually; without Audacity Deference Domain Feigning Savor Respite Evoke Suffused Ethereal Presumptuous Suffice Repression