Assignment: English Essay
Write an essay about the book "like water for chocolate"
The essay should be 3 pages double space MLA format
Below are several quotes from Like Water For Chocolate. Choose one (or select one of your own) and write an in-class essay that discusses how the quote exemplifies the theme(s) your essay will explore. Consider the following:
A: Now the quote pertains to the section of the chapter in which It appears and its significance to the lagers' themes of the novel
B: How the quote pertains to the theme of the chapter and its significance to the larger themes of the novel
C: How the chapter pertains to the overall themes developed throughout the novel and its significance to the genre and critical focus of the novel as a whole
You will have the full final period to write the essay in class. You can bring a one-page outline with you from which to write, and print outs of any (optional) source material you plan to use in the essay. You may also consult a handbook and a dictionary (paper or electronic), as well as the novel Like Water. For Chocolate during the exam period. Save some time for editing and proofreading before submitting your essay.
When she finished beating the meringue, it occurred to Nacha to tick some of the icing off her finger to see if Tit's tears had affected the flavor. Na, the flavor did not seem to have been affected, yet without knowing why, Nacha was suddenly overcome with an intense longing...she had had a fiancé. Oh yes, she had! But the mama of Mama Elena had sent him packing.
They left peacefully, just as they had come, and Mama Elena was quite disconcerted by the way they had treated her; it didn't fit the picture of the heartless ruffians she'd been expecting. From that day on she would not express any opinion about the revolutionaries. What she never learned was that this captain was the same Juan Alejandrez who had carried off her daughter Gertrudis some months before.
My grandmother had a very interesting theory; she said that each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.
... the drops that fell from the shower never made it to her body: they evaporated before they reached her. Her body was giving off so much heat that the wooden walls began to split and burst into flame. Terrified, she thought she would be burnt to death, and she ran out of the little enclosure just as she was, completely naked.
...with Nacha dead, Tita was the best qualified of all the women in the house to fill the vacant post in the kitchen, and in there flavors, smells, textures, and the effects they could have were beyond Mama Elena's iron command. Tita was the last link in a chain of cooks who had been passing culinary secrets from generation to generation since ancient times...