Like Water for Chocolate Discussion
Prompt: View this film (and/or read the book

Like Water for Chocolate Discussion
Prompt: View this film (and/or read the book) and discuss the role of tradition in the novel/film and the impact it has on the characters’ lives in 1 full-page, double spaced, MLA Format.
Like Water for Chocolate: https://mediasite.sdsu.edu/Mediasite/Play/bb15cd318df24053a08c018bd79ac63c1d
Laura Esquivel’s book, Like Water for Chocolate, is written in the style of Magical Realism. This genre of literature originates from Latin America, writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Jorge Luis Borges, and Isabelle Allende. Here is a pdf of the book, should you like to read and quote from, as well as visually experience, the story Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel.pdf
According to Wikipedia, the existence of fantastic elements in the real world provides the basis for magical realism. Writers do not invent new worlds, but rather, they reveal the magical in the existing world, as was done by Gabriel García Márquez, who wrote the seminal work One Hundred Years of Solitude. In the world of magical realism, the supernatural realm blends with the natural, familiar world.
Food is one of the major themes in Like Water for Chocolate. It is used in an imaginative way to represent the characters’ feelings and situations. Due to the magical nature of food in the story, it has literal effects on the people eating the food in terms of infusing the cook Tita’s emotions into the food which are thus transferred beyond the food into the hearts and minds of those who devour it.
***FINAL NOTE*** Do not use Artificial Intelligence to draft the essay.