Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Essay example -- Film Movie

Like Water For ChocolateThe film, Like Water for Chocolate, represents a story through incorporating the idea of food as feelings and expressing the cleaning ladys roles during the Mexican Revolution. The film is a romantic-comedy showing many joking ways of hard times and soft issues and the way of life. The most striking and origin seems to be how women seem to be in charge rather then males during this time period, I thought that men were more likely to be the cutting edge of the household and in charge.Throughout the film, the main overall theme is that a woman had an illegitimate daughter with someone while she was married, her husband left her, and she was but with three girls and the youngest, Tita, was to never marry because she was to take care of her set out until the daytime she died. As Tita grew her and a boy, Pedro, fell in love, but her mother would not suspend her to marry, and instead, he married her sister, Rosura, to be close to her. Pedro and Rosura had thei r last child and Rosura vowed she would not be competent to marry because she too, like Tita, would have to take care of her until the day she died. Tita very much hated this idea, as she hated how her mother controlled her and forbade her to not marry her only love, as seen at the end when Rosura dies, Pedro and Tita are now able to get married at last. This silly tradition of the youngest girl taking care of her mother shows the power of family traditions and most likely, a Latin American tradition. The mother was ...