'Like Water For Chocolate"

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Examines the inheritance of family traditions in Laura Esquvel's book. Centers on one family of women in Mexico and how they deal with their inheritances of joy, grief and pain that have been passed down from generation to generation. How food is used in the book. Describes the characters, and the roles that they play in each other's lives.

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"Introduction

Many things get passed down in families, from eye, hair and skin color to the grandfather clock in the front hall and the antique dishes in the china cabinet. Among these inheritances are the intangibles such as family traditions, mythologies and code of conduct. Sometimes these intangibles make life richer, other times they do nothing but make life bitter and hard. The book, Like Water for Chocolate, is about one family of women and how they deal with their particular inheritances of joy and grief and pain. Esquivel uses family recipes and home remedies to discuss the other intangible inheritances that have been passed down from generation to generation. In fact, the title is taken from a food term used in the book to describe one character s fury with the outcome of things in her family (151)."

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